Windsurf

Agentic IDE built around Cascade, now owned by Cognition after a turbulent 2025.

Overall in coding agents

16of 17 · score 55

Data coverage

85%

22 of 26 fields sourced

Best for

•Developers who want the agent tracking what they are editing, not just what they typed
•Teams already invested in Codeium's retrieval and enterprise deployment

Strong on

+Token markup Yes 1/16
+Repo indexing embeddings index 3/16

Weak on

−Headless / CI No 16/17
Better: Claude Code: Yes
−Pricing model opaque credits 14/16
Better: opencode: BYOK tokens only
−Licence proprietary 11/16
Better: Codex CLI: Apache-2.0
−Local models No 12/17
Better: Codex CLI: Yes

vs Cursor

•Ahead on Token markup: Yes vs Partial
•Ahead on Entry price: $15/seat/mo vs $20/seat/mo
•Behind on Headless / CI: No vs Yes
•Behind on Permissions: granular allowlist vs allowlist + OS sandbox

How Windsurf scores among 17 coding agents22 of 26 fields known

Features8

Surface

standalone editor, IDE extension

7/17

Leader: GitHub Copilot (Agent HQ) · GitHub-native, IDE extension, CLI, web, cloud delegate

windsurf.com · 2026-01-15

Default model

Windsurf's in-house SWE model, with frontier models selectable

Model breadth

multi-vendor

9/17

Leader: opencode · any provider / router

· 2026-01-15

Repo indexing3rd

embeddings index

3/16

Leader: Devin · hybrid index + agentic

· 2026-01-15

Plan mode1st

Yes

1/17

Checkpoint & undo1st

Yes

1/16

Headless / CI

No

16/17

Leader: Claude Code · Yes

Local models

No

12/17

Leader: Codex CLI · Yes

Agentic7

Where it stops

3

7/15

Leader: Claude Code · 4

MCP1st

Yes

1/17

· 2026-01-15

Subagents

—

· 2026-11-07

Hooks

—

· 2026-11-07

Skills / commands1st

Yes

1/17

Background agents

Partial

6/16

Leader: Claude Code · Yes

Opens PRs

Partial

7/16

Leader: Claude Code · Yes

Governance & control3

Permissions

granular allowlist

9/17

Leader: Claude Code · allowlist + OS sandbox

BYOK

Partial

14/17

Leader: Claude Code · Yes

Licence

proprietary

11/16

Leader: Codex CLI · Apache-2.0

· 2026-01-15

Pricing3

Pricing model

opaque credits

14/16

Leader: opencode · BYOK tokens only

windsurf.com · 2026-01-15

Entry price

$15/seat/mo

12/16

Leader: Gemini CLI · $0/seat/mo

windsurf.com · 2026-01-15

Token markup1st

Yes

1/16

Traction3

GitHub stars

N/A

devin.ai · 2026-11-07

Terminal-Bench

—

Bench model

—

Positioning1

Positioning

The agentic IDE where you and the agent stay in flow together.

Timeline1

First release

2024-11-13

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Sources3

Windsurf logo & brand colours

Logo assets

LogoSVG

Logo (dark)SVG

WordmarkSVG

Wordmark (dark)SVG

MonochromeSVG

Flattened to currentColor, what Toolweight renders in tables and nav.

Windsurf brand colours

#0B100F