Windsurf
An IDE whose Cascade agent tracks your actions and edits across the codebase.
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Windsurf vs Claude Code
Windsurf (Cognition) and Claude Code (Anthropic) both sit in Coding. Windsurf shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (14 vs 10). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Windsurf Cognition | Claude Code Anthropic |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Coding | Coding |
| Version | 3.12.28 | latest |
| Entry cost | Free tier · from $20/mo | from $20/mo |
| Pricing tiers | Free free · Pro $20 · Max $200 · Teams $120 | Pro $20 · Team (Standard seat) $25 · Team (Premium seat) $125 · Enterprise $20 |
| 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 · GPT-6 Astra · Haiku · Kimi K2.5 · OpenAI frontier models · SWE 1.7 · SWE-1.5 · SWE-2 · Ultra | Claude 3.5 Sonnet · Fable 5 · Fable 5.1 · Haiku · Haiku 4.5 · Haiku 5.5 · Opus · Opus 5 · Opus 5.5 · Sonnet · Sonnet 3.5 · Sonnet 5 · Sonnet 5.5 |
| Context window | Varies by model | Up to 1M varies by model |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 14 | 10 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | Cascade agent, Supercomplete, Live previews, Memories, Deploys, Devin Local Agent, Devin Cloud Agent, Cascade Agent | Terminal agent, Repo-wide edits, Subagents, MCP servers, Hooks, Background tasks, Agentic coding CLI, VS Code extension |
Claude Code
A terminal-native coding agent that reads, edits and runs code across a whole repository.
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