Windsurf
An IDE whose Cascade agent tracks your actions and edits across the codebase.
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Windsurf vs Codex
Windsurf (Cognition) and Codex (OpenAI) both sit in Coding. Windsurf is the cheaper entry point at Free tier available, paid plans exist but pricing is not published on this page.. Windsurf shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (13 vs 8). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Windsurf Cognition | Codex OpenAI |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Coding | Coding |
| Version | 3.10.27 | Codex |
| Entry cost | Free tier available, paid plans exist but pricing is not published on this page. | from $20/mo |
| Pricing tiers | Free free | Plus $20 · Pro $200 · Business $25 · API 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 | 5.6 Sol · GPT-4 · GPT-5.2 · GPT-5.2-Codex · GPT-5.4 · GPT-5.6 · GPT-5.6 Luna · GPT-5.6 Sol · GPT-5.6 Terra · GPT-6 Astra · GPT-Live · gpt-oss |
| Context window | Varies by model | 400K tokens |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 13 | 8 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | Cascade agent, Supercomplete, Live previews, Memories, Deploys, Devin Local Agent, Devin Cloud Agent, Cascade Agent | Codex CLI, Codex IDE extension, Codex cloud, Codex Micro, Code review, Security workbench, Code generation, Codex Security |
Codex
A software engineering agent that runs tasks in parallel sandboxes and opens pull requests.
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