Windsurf has launched their new brand and improved their Free tier substantially
Here is what the Free tier is going to have now:
More premium credits: We are bringing all premium models to the Free plan with the full agentic experience. Instead of just 5 premium prompt credits a month, a user will get 25. With GPT-4.1 and o4-mini still on a discounted 0.25 credit rate, this corresponds to 100 such prompts every month.
Unlimited full agent: We are also going to give unlimited Cascade Base model usage in Write mode to our Free users. Previously, unlimited Cascade Base was available, but not with the full agentic experience.
Unlimited Fast Tab: Free users will now have unlimited fast Tab completions, the highest performing Tab experience that was previously available only to paying users. This is the full Tab experience - autocomplete, supercomplete, tab-to-jump, tab-to-import, and more.
Previews and Deploys: Unlimited Previews and one Deploy a day.
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Product Hunt
Interesting. The new brand looks cool, but maybe isn't as distinctive in small spaces as the old brand. What's your take, @chrismessina? Identity design is so hard to do well.
Raycast
@rajiv_ayyangar motion is an important part of digital identities these days, so this provides something that isn't super literal (the previous logo was a windsail).
The previous logo also kind of looks like claws:
Whereas I like the stylistic shape of their new custom W:
Much better vibessss.
Product Hunt
An excellent free tier! How does everyone's gpt-4.1 experience stack up against Sonnet in Windsurf? I tried 4.1 briefly and quickly went back to Sonnet. 4.1 responses weren't nearly as good. Maybe user error?
Raycast
@mikekerzhner it sucks! It's like really really bad. The context window is too small (16K vs 200K), it doesn't look across the codebase to make holistic changes, and it often uses out of date documentation.
I'm shocked that they're putting this out there confidently. It doesn't hold a candle to Sonnet (in my experience coding in TypeScript).