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TOOLS/IDE/WINDSURF

Windsurf

Agent-first IDE, formerly Codeium. Now a Cognition property alongside Devin.

STATE
ACQUIRED
VENDOR
Cognition
STARS
no public repo
MAINTENANCE
not measurable
PRICING READ
2 Aug 2026

ACQUIRED · 14 JULY 2025Acquired by Cognition in 2025 after the Google deal took the founding team; $82M ARR at acquisition. Every "Cursor vs Windsurf" page written before the acquisition describes a company that no longer exists independently.

IDE0 TIERS READ1 CHANGES OBSERVEDSUBSCRIPTION
PLANS AND PRICESnone published as tiers

Cognition no longer publishes a pricing page for Windsurf, so there are no tiers to read. Anything printed here would be another product’s.

WHAT IT IS BUILT ONread off the vendor’s own pages and the repository
DEFAULT MODELNone, you choose.SWE-1 family plus frontier models.
YOUR OWN KEYNo, model access comes bundled with the subscription and cannot be swapped for your own key.
SOURCEProprietary. The client is not published.
HOW IT CHARGESSubscriptionread from Cognition’s own pricing page
TAGGEDagent, vscode-fork, acquired