What is Windsurf Editor?
The first agentic IDE, and then some. The Windsurf Editor (formerly Codeium) is where the work of developers and AI truly flow together, allowing for a coding experience that feels like literal magic.
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86 Likeliness to Recommend
89 Plan to Renew
83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+89 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Windsurf Editor?
Pros
- Respectful
- Enables Productivity
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
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Windsurf Editor Reviews
Matthew C.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Dec 2024
Great free product extension to your IDEs
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Windsurf Editor from other similar products?
Unfortunately the freemium option it has is really the only differentiator i've seen.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It's free for prototyping relative to its competitors like Github Copilot.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The in-context learning from the project structure seemed sub par compared to GitHub Copilot.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you're new to these types of LLM supports it's a decent first step as long as you have a clear understanding of prompt engineering.
Pros
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Security Protects
Cons
- Commodity Features
- Less Performance Enhancing
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Royal R.
- Role: Student Academic
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Aug 2024
Less cost Ease of comfort and Bug detection
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Windsurf Editor from other similar products?
The quickly understanding and the ease of coding around the context The feature to have the whole development team using the product is unparalleled
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Team code usability Ease of use with less input Less cost
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing to dislike
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Better than other competitors
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
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Rajiv k.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2026
Best Product for coding assistant in code editor
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Windsurf Editor from other similar products?
basically it is using the dewin 1.5 version which is properly based on the coding work and mostly I used it for coding changes and put the things to develop the things easily it is similar to vscode but most powerful version to see the previous one as well as always ask do accept or reject the changes as other coding assistant just implemented not confirm the changes but it is confirming on which files what is changing
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Asking about the files changes like your will accept the changes if I think in code it will not working I can reject it otherwise I will reverse the complete code so best part is it from my end
What do you dislike most about this product?
nothing best code editor for coding person it helps. to faster the process
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Best code assistant and extension as well as software provider like vscode where you can put the prd it will do complete things but taking time but it will cover the 50-60 percent of your work of starting structure in it
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
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