Agentic IDE built around Cascade, now owned by Cognition after a turbulent 2025.
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Windsurf brand colours
Extracted from the artwork and ranked by how much of the mark each covers — not from a brand book, so treat them as observed rather than official.
What Windsurf is
Windsurf is an agentic IDE whose Cascade flow keeps the agent aware of what you are doing in the editor rather than only what you typed in a prompt. After an aborted OpenAI acquisition, a Google licensing deal and the acquisition of the remainder by Cognition in mid-2025, it now sits alongside Devin under one owner. It ships in-house models and prices in credits, which makes real monthly cost hard to forecast.
Recent changes
- 2025-07-14Cognition acquires Windsurf after the OpenAI deal collapses
An OpenAI acquisition fell through, Google licensed the technology and hired the leadership, and Cognition bought what remained. Windsurf and Devin ended up under one owner inside a fortnight — the sharpest reminder that harness vendors are not stable ground.