Windsurf
Agentic IDE with the Cascade agent.
An AI-native IDE whose Cascade agent tracks your actions to keep context across multi-step edits.
- Vendor
- Cognition
- Category
- Coding assistants
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Open source
- No
- Platforms
- macOS, Windows, Linux
- Launched
- 2024
- Website
- windsurf.com
Features
- Cascade agent
- Previews & deploys
- Memories
Best for
- Coding
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