Windsurf

At a glance

What Windsurf does

Vim mode, AI inline edits, Chat, Cascade agent, Devin cloud agent, Agent Command Center, Web preview, MCP support, Lint fixing, Drag-drop images, Spaces

Best for

AI-first development with local + cloud agents and rich MCP ecosystem

Works well with

Conflicts & caveats

• GitHub Copilot does not officially support Windsurf.
• Continue.dev only supports VS Code and JetBrains — your IDE is Windsurf.
• Codeium does not officially support Windsurf — use VS Code, JetBrains, Vim, or Neovim.
• Cursor built-in only runs inside the Cursor editor — your IDE is Windsurf.
• Cline only supports VS Code and JetBrains IDEs — your IDE is Windsurf.
• Sourcegraph Cody does not officially support Windsurf — use VS Code, JetBrains, or Visual Studio.
• Tabnine does not officially support Windsurf.
• Amazon Q Developer does not officially support Windsurf — use VS Code or JetBrains.
• JetBrains AI Assistant only runs inside JetBrains IDEs — your IDE is Windsurf.
• Qodo officially supports VS Code and JetBrains — your IDE is Windsurf.
• Windsurf has its own built-in AI; Supermaven may conflict with or be redundant to it.
• Supermaven only supports VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, and Zed — your IDE is Windsurf.
• Zed Agent only runs inside the Zed editor — your IDE is Windsurf.
• Augment Code officially supports VS Code, JetBrains, Vim, and Neovim — your IDE is Windsurf.
• Amp (Sourcegraph) officially supports VS Code and JetBrains — your IDE is Windsurf. Use the CLI version otherwise.
• Sourcegraph Cody (Enterprise) supports VS Code, JetBrains, and Visual Studio — your IDE is Windsurf.
• Cursor CLI works in any terminal but needs an active Cursor subscription — your IDE is Windsurf, which is fine but the cost is tied to Cursor.
• @codebase indexing is a Cursor-only feature, but your IDE is Windsurf.
• Cursor Background Agents are dispatched from Cursor (desktop or mobile) — your IDE is Windsurf.