Windsurf

About Windsurf

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Windsurf

All products by Windsurf reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

WindsurfAI Coding Tools

AI-native IDE with local and cloud agents for software development

From $20/mo7.8/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Windsurf

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Windsurf's product on their own terms. They landed within 0.9 points of each other, an unusually strong consensus.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Windsurf competes with, and how they differ.

Cursor7.8/10

Also built as a VS Code fork with an agentic mode; TechCrunch reported Cursor at roughly $300M ARR in April 2025 versus Windsurf's roughly $100M ARR the same month, and Cursor was OpenAI's original 2024/2025 acquisition target -- talks moved to Windsurf only after Cursor's near-$10B price expectation proved too high.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

GitHub Copilot7.8/10

Distributed as a bundled subscription add-on inside GitHub, Visual Studio and VS Code rather than sold as a standalone editor, giving it default-install reach across Microsoft's existing developer base that Windsurf's separate-download editor does not have.

9 products reviewed on TopReviewed

Z

Zed8.1/10

A ground-up, Rust-built native editor optimized for raw speed and low-latency local/collaborative editing, competing on editor performance rather than Windsurf's VS Code-fork-plus-agent breadth.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Augment Code7.9/10

Plugs into existing editors (VS Code, JetBrains, Vim/Neovim) via its own Context Engine rather than shipping its own IDE, competing for the same large-codebase enterprise accounts Windsurf built its ARR on without requiring a team to migrate off its current editor.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

JetBrains AI Assistant8.0/10

Sold as a bundled feature inside JetBrains' own IDEs (IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm) rather than as a separate download, targeting JetBrains' existing enterprise seat base instead of competing for a new-editor download the way Windsurf does.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Windsurf's history, with sources.

1. Jun 2, 2026Milestone

   Cognition rebrands the Windsurf Editor as Devin Desktop

   Cognition rolled out an over-the-air update renaming the Windsurf Editor to Devin Desktop, replacing the Cascade agent with a new Rust-built local agent called Devin Local and repositioning the product around a multi-agent "Agent Command Center" built on the open Agent Client Protocol.

   digitalapplied.com
2. Jul 14, 2025Acquisition

   Cognition signs definitive agreement to acquire remaining Windsurf

   Cognition (maker of the AI coding agent Devin) signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf's IP, product, trademark, brand, and business, along with the roughly 250 employees not hired by Google days earlier. Cognition disclosed Windsurf had $82M in ARR (enterprise ARR doubling quarter-over-quarter) and 350+ enterprise customers at the time; the purchase price was not officially disclosed.

   techcrunch.com
3. Jul 11, 2025Milestone

   OpenAI deal collapses; Google DeepMind hires CEO and co-founder in $2.4B licensing deal

   OpenAI's acquisition agreement expired after Microsoft (OpenAI's major investor) declined to waive its contractual IP rights over Windsurf's technology. The same day, Google agreed to pay about $2.4B for a non-exclusive license to Windsurf technology and hired CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and other researchers to join Google DeepMind -- without taking any equity stake or control in Windsurf. Jeff Wang (previously head of business) became interim CEO and Graham Moreno became president.

   techcrunch.com
4. May 6, 2025Milestone

   OpenAI agrees to acquire Windsurf for about $3B -- deal never closes

   Bloomberg reported OpenAI had reached an agreement to acquire Windsurf for roughly $3 billion, which would have been OpenAI's largest acquisition. The deal had not closed as of this report and terms were undisclosed; it collapsed two months later.

   alternativeto.net
5. April 2025Milestone

   Codeium renames the company to Windsurf

   Codeium rebranded the company itself as Windsurf, aligning the corporate name with its fast-growing Windsurf Editor product; the existing Codeium IDE plugins were renamed Windsurf Plugins.

   alternativeto.net
6. Nov 13, 2024Launch

   Windsurf Editor launches as an agentic IDE

   Codeium launched the Windsurf Editor, a Visual Studio Code fork built around an agentic AI system called Cascade that could understand project-wide context, edit across multiple files, and run terminal commands.

   maginative.com
7. Aug 29, 2024Funding

   Series C -- $150M led by General Catalyst; reaches $1.25B unicorn valuation

   Codeium raised a $150M Series C led by General Catalyst, with Kleiner Perkins and Greenoaks continuing to participate, valuing the company at $1.25B and bringing disclosed total funding to about $243M since founding.

   techcrunch.com
8. Jan 30, 2024Funding

   Series B -- $65M led by Kleiner Perkins at $500M valuation

   Codeium raised a $65M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins, with General Catalyst and returning backer Greenoaks participating, valuing the company at $500M.

   siliconangle.com
9. Apr 28, 2022Funding

   Series A -- $25M led by Greenoaks (as Exafunction)

   Exafunction, the GPU-virtualization infrastructure startup founded by Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen, raised a $25M Series A led by Greenoaks with Founders Fund participation. The company pivoted to AI-assisted coding later in 2022 and relaunched as Codeium.

   techcrunch.com