Windsurf

The first agentic IDE. Tomorrow's editor, today.

4.7•60 reviews•

21K followers

The first agentic IDE. Tomorrow's editor, today.

4.7•60 reviews•

21K followers

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Windsurf is an IDE that enables anyone to collaborate in lockstep with AI. Built by the Codeium team, the Windsurf Editor combines the best of copilot and agent systems to help you ship products faster, leveraging better context to provide better suggestions.

Windsurf Reviews

The community submitted 60 reviews to tell us what they like about Windsurf, what Windsurf can do better, and more.

4.7

Based on 60 reviews

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Reviewers mostly say Windsurf helps them code faster, with strong debugging, context-aware suggestions, and useful agent features like Cascade for generating code, tests, and refactors. Several compare it favorably with other AI coding tools, though some still find autocomplete weaker than Cursor. The main complaints are reliability and support: users report bugs, outages, connection timeouts, broken accounts, and slow responses from customer service. A few also warn that complex projects need repeated prompting and that non-programmers may struggle despite the promise of easier app building.

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Pros

developer productivity (12)

agentic workflow (5)

AI autocomplete (5)

cascade function (5)

context aware (4)

code completion (2)

fast performance (2)

Python support (2)

VSCode integration (2)

Cons

customer support (3)

bugs (2)

connection timeouts (2)

subscription issues (2)

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Cons

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•9 reviews

I think that the idea of an agentic IDE is really interesting and I'm fully supportive of the transformative potential in this app and in the concept generally, breaking down barriers to entry for development and making programming accessible to far more people. Equally, I think that large measures of realism are called for regarding the actual capability of AI to deliver on this promise at the moment, especially with regard to handling context, which is inherently challenging. I think that this creates a responsibility for those generating the first wave of these tools to market their products responsibly. I began absolutely loving Windsurf and I'm still a big fan of the product and see its potential as vast. However, I think that it has seriously failed in its obligation to strike this balance and to provide a fair service to its users. While the company's social media speaks of an endless train of feature additions and advancement, the actual experience of using this on a day-to-day basis, as evidenced also by the Reddit communities, is rather different to the marketing. Personally, I found the product to be beset by an almost endless train of bugs that affect the ability to get anything done with it. At the moment, there's no completions happening on Anthropic, which has been the case many more days than not during the past few months. Long-term, I now have very mixed feelings about this product and the company behind us Because I feel that my trust in their product has been to an extent taken advantage of. I hope that others move in to fill this space and are more transparent in their engagement with consumers, especially with regard to uptime and product availability. Users should not feel the need to resort to bypassing official support channels to communicate the idea that the product is not available.

What's great

agentic workflow (5)

What needs improvement

bugs (2)connection timeouts (2)

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•1 review

Best AI Co-pilot I could ask for within jetbrains community edition. Or any ide.

What's great

JetBrains integration (1)

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2yr ago

•1 review

I'm a beginner, learning python in the VScode IDE. Before Codeium I would have to Google and trawl through multiple stack overflow or random python websites to find similar solutions to my problem. Now I ask Codeium chat to help me frame out my task, then give me examples, then give me an opinion on which library would be best, then explain what a method is doing...and it never ever gets fed up and tells me to go and Google it, never!!! One of the best features I've been enjoying is the supernatural code completion. The last project I was working on used tkinter for a gui. Codeium's example just had the basic code to show the window. Once I had it running I thought to myself, i really need a label to remind myself what to do, I made some white space in the window generating code section to write a new comment and code complete gave me an example of resizing the gui window (automatically)...I thought...yes I do need that too, so pressed tab to complete it..took a new line and it gave me example code for a label..It was a magical moment!!! Truly game changing software, thank you for making it so convenient to learn!

What's great

AI autocomplete (5)Python support (2)VSCode integration (2)code completion (2)

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•3 reviews

It is very helpful app for career growth.

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2yr ago

•1 review

I recommend python developers to try it!

What's great

Python support (2)

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•7 reviews

It's simply a great tool that continues to enhance my coding efficiency.

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•2 reviews

By far the most advanced AI code editor out there. I'm blown away by its capabilities. It truly is like having a sidekick with you that you can go to at any time for any kind of help. I only wish there was a button within the Source Control to generate a commit message. Currently, you have to CMD+P ">Windsurf: Generate commit message"

What's great

AI autocomplete (5)agentic workflow (5)

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6 views1yr ago

•1 review

Gain GOD power when trying to build out a new app/idea. I had an idea for a few months. Don’t know D3. In one hour talked with Windsurf and had the webpage done. This is awesome. Need a paid version so I can make sure you guys survive

What's great

developer productivity (12)agentic workflow (5)

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1 view1yr ago

•1 review

Wow I loved the agentic workflow via Cascade. I also use GitHub Copilot and Cursor and love how AI is helping me develop faster. But the speed and automation Windsurf brings via its Cascade mode is mind blowing. Its feels like an experienced dev working along with me who can create files, execute commands and above all reflect on its code and improve it. Most of the time I just say something like "build this feature where....." and cascade just takes over and gets the job done as I sip my coffee. Very impressive! There are some rough edges like cascade taking time to connect or connection timeouts, auto complete not as good as Cursor, sometimes cascade tries to overengineer things or some approach produces an error but this is just the start. I'm excited to see where Windsurf takes my coding experience in the coming months.

What's great

developer productivity (12)agentic workflow (5)cascade function (5)

What needs improvement

connection timeouts (2)slow autocomplete (1)overengineering (1)

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6 views1yr ago

•1 review

Only just started using but the interface is very snapping, familiar and good at making well place AI code changes / generation into an application setting. So far the integration and flow works very well and I am keen to keep using and see where this ends up.

What's great

AI autocomplete (5)familiar interface (1)reliable operation (1)

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1yr ago