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An IDE whose Cascade agent tracks your actions and edits across the codebase.

Current version

1.14

Entry cost

Free tier, Pro $15/mo

Changes / 30d

2

Capabilities

  • Cascade agent
  • Supercomplete
  • Live previews
  • Memories
  • Deploys

Pricing

  • Free

    Free

  • Pro

    $15

  • Teams

    $30

  • Enterprise

    $60

Entry price over time

6/19/2026 · $07/29/2026 · $0

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • SWE-1.5

    Cognition

    disclosed

  • Claude Sonnet 4.5

    Anthropic

    disclosed

  • GPT-5.2

    OpenAI

    disclosed

Context window

Varies by model

Public API

yes

Multi-model routing

yes

Stack signals

  • VS Code fork
  • Model router

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unknown

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

No public usage figure on record for this product.

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Change history

  • version

    Windsurf 1.14 released with a rebuilt Cascade planner

    1.101.14

    source
  • model

    In-house SWE-1.5 replaces SWE-1 as the default

    SWE-1SWE-1.5

    source