Windsurf
An IDE whose Cascade agent tracks your actions and edits across the codebase.
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Windsurf vs Amazon Q Developer
Windsurf (Cognition) and Amazon Q Developer (AWS) both sit in Coding. Windsurf shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (14 vs 8). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Windsurf Cognition | Amazon Q Developer AWS |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Coding | Coding |
| Version | 3.10.27 | Amazon Q Developer |
| Entry cost | Free tier available, sign up for free. Paid plans exist (mention of paying users, Teams, and Enterprise ACU limits) but pricing is not published in the source. | Free tier available with 50 agentic chat interactions per month. Paid pricing not fully detailed on this page. |
| Pricing tiers | Free free | Amazon Q Developer Free Tier free |
| Model stack | Cascade · Claude · Claude Fable 5.1 · Claude Sonnet 4.5 · Devin · Devin Local · Fast · Fusion · Gemini · GPT · GPT 5.2 Mini · GPT-5.2 · GPT-5.6 · Haiku · Kimi K2.5 · OpenAI frontier models · SWE 1.7 · SWE-1.5 · Ultra | Amazon Bedrock · Amazon Bedrock / Nova / Titan · Amazon Bedrock / Nova / Titan / Claude · Amazon Bedrock / Nova foundation models · Amazon Bedrock Foundation Models · Amazon Bedrock Models · Amazon Nova · Amazon Q · Bedrock Models · Claude · Nova |
| Context window | Varies by model | — |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 14 | 8 |
| Origin | Global | United States |
| Capabilities | Cascade agent, Supercomplete, Live previews, Memories, Deploys, Devin Local Agent, Devin Cloud Agent, Cascade Agent | Agentic refactor, Java/.NET migration, AWS-aware context, CLI agent, inline code suggestions, agentic coding, vulnerability scanning, chat |
Amazon Q Developer
Inline completion, agentic refactors and legacy migration across AWS environments.
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