Windsurf

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Dec 2024

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Windsurf is an agentic IDE, featuring Cascade - a powerful AI coding assistant. It represents a new paradigm in AI-assisted development through its AI Flow approach, enabling both independent and collaborative coding experiences. Which namely results in combining genAI copiloting, independent agentic solution and human actions in one set.

Features:

AI Flow: new and hihgly promising paradigm that allows the AI to work both independently and collaboratively with developers
Cascade: A powerful agentic AI coding assistant that can understand complex coding tasks and implement solutions
Supercomplete: autocomplete on steroids featuring Intent prediction
Command: In-line code generation
Terminal Command: Natural language instructions in terminal
Fast mode Autocomplete: powered by Codeium models

Home page [Blog post] (https://codeium.com/blog/windsurf-launch)

Permanent Free Tier: Yes BYOK: No? Cost: 10 USD / month (starting with 14 trial)

See AI flows to get to know more about new paradigm in comparison to other flows.

See pricing to compare features in different tiers.

Please follow short guides here to easily install, configure and get started.