Cursor vs Windsurf: Which Should You Choose?

Cursor

Your coding agent for building ambitious software — an AI-native editor with agents, Tab completion, and codebase understanding.

Cursor is an AI-native code editor built for agent-driven development. Its Composer agent completes multi-step tasks autonomously, while Tab delivers context-aware completions and the editor indexes your whole codebase for semantic search across files. Cursor supports multiple frontier models — OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and xAI — and lets teams bring their own. Beyond the editor it adds cloud agents that build features in parallel, Bugbot for automated code review, a CLI for terminal workflows, and Slack and GitHub integrations. A free Hobby tier lets you try the agent and Tab with limited usage; the $20/month Individual plan extends agent limits and unlocks frontier models, cloud agents, and MCP/skills/hooks, with Teams and Enterprise tiers adding shared context, SSO, and access controls.

Windsurf

Now Devin Desktop by Cognition — the AI-native editor you knew as Windsurf, with the Cascade agent and a fleet command center.

Windsurf is now Devin Desktop, the AI-native code editor from Cognition (the company behind the Devin agent). The product you knew as Windsurf — originally Codeium — was rebranded; existing plans, settings, and extensions carry over, and Windsurf for JetBrains remains available separately. Devin Desktop is a full IDE (syntax highlighting, autocomplete, debugging) wrapped around an Agent Command Center for dispatching and monitoring multiple local and cloud agents from one surface. 'Spaces' share context and Git worktrees across agents, and the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) lets you run multiple models and agents, including free access to Cognition's SWE-1.6 coding model. It integrates with 15+ tools like Slack, Linear, Figma, and Stripe. Pricing is free to start, with Pro at $20/month, Max at $200/month, Teams at $80/month plus $40/seat, and custom Enterprise plans.