Windsurf is an IDE that enables anyone to collaborate in lockstep with AI. Built by the Codeium team, the Windsurf Editor combines the best of copilot and agent systems to help you ship products faster, leveraging better context to provide better suggestions.
Similar to @Claude by Anthropic Code and @Codex by OpenAI @Windsurf has announced SWE-1, its first family of software engineering models:
SWE-1: Approximately Claude 3.5 Sonnet levels of tool-call reasoning while being cheaper to serve. It will be available to all paid users for a promotional period of 0 credits per user prompt.
SWE-1-lite: A smaller model that replaces Cascade Base at better quality. It is available for unlimited use to all users, free or paid.
SWE-1-mini: A small, extremely fast model that powers the Windsurf Tab passive experience for all users, free or paid.
Nice to see a Product Hunt advertiser do well!
Dear @Windsurf, I appreciate the frequent updates. Love seeing a fast moving product. But, the restart-to-update is pretty brutal. There are like 3 updates per week.
I have long running processes in the editor terminal like my development server and rails console. When I restart the editor, I have to manually restart these processes. Some ideas:
Maybe it's possible to have some updates without restarts?
Can you indicate when my local major or minor version is behind the latest? I am no longer willing to restart the editor for most patch updates.
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.
From TechCrunch:
"Windsurf, the maker of a popular AI coding assistant, is in talks to be acquired by OpenAI for about $3 billion, Bloomberg reported."
This is pretty crazy especially since the OpenAI Startup Fund is one of @Cursor 's biggest investors (source).
