Windsurf Review 2026

Agentic IDE from the Codeium team (now under Cognition after the OpenAI acquisition drama) built around the Cascade agent — a flow-first editor that keeps you and the AI in sync as it edits, runs, and iterates across a whole codebase.

Windsurf is Codeium's next-generation code editor, built from scratch to make the AI a full collaborator rather than an autocomplete panel. The Cascade agent is the centerpiece: it maintains awareness of every open file, terminal command, and change it has made, and can propose multi-step edits that span dozens of files while asking for review at natural checkpoints. Supercomplete gives instant, mid-line suggestions, while Cascade Base and Cascade Write handle deeper reasoning and larger edits, and the Riptide indexing engine keeps repo context fresh. Windsurf's provenance is unusual — after a headline-grabbing OpenAI acquisition attempt fell through in 2026, most of the Windsurf team joined Google DeepMind and Cognition subsequently acquired the remaining company and IP, making Windsurf a sibling product to Devin. Pricing includes a free Basic tier plus Pro ($15/mo), Teams ($30/user/month), Enterprise, and standalone Enterprise SaaS plans, with prompt credits and flow-action credits metered separately. Windsurf ships an MCP client and can also expose itself as an MCP-compatible endpoint, letting other agents drive edits inside the editor. For developers who found Cursor's UX too chat-heavy, Windsurf's inline, flow-based interaction feels notably more like an editor and less like a conversation.