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Windsurf pricing
Windsurf publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free, then $20/month
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Yes
Windsurf plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| Pro | $20/month | 3 | +$20/month, 3 more features |
| Teams | $40/month-per-user | 4 | +$20/month-per-user, 4 more features |
| Max | $200/month | 3 | +$160/month, 3 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers light daily and weekly quotas, unlimited tab autocomplete, access to cascade ai agent.
Pro
$20/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- Standard quotas
- Windsurf proprietary SWE model
- Cloud sessions for background work
Teams
$40/month-per-userOver Pro, this tier adds:
- All Pro features
- Centralized billing
- Usage analytics
- Admin analytics
Max
$200/monthOver Teams, this tier adds:
- Heavy daily quotas
- Long agent sessions
- Frontier third-party models
Where Windsurf stops being free
Free, Free
- Light daily and weekly quotas
- Unlimited tab autocomplete
- Access to Cascade AI agent
Pro, $20/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Standard quotas
- Windsurf proprietary SWE model
- Cloud sessions for background work
What the product covers
The full Windsurf feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Cascade AI agent
- Agentic programming
- Context-aware assistance
- Automated command execution
- Multi-file understanding
- Intelligent code generation
- Real-time debugging
- Integrated terminal
Integrations
- Git
- GitHub
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet
- GPT-4
- Language servers
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- AWS
Security
- Data encryption
- Secure agent execution
- Privacy controls
Deployment
- Desktop deployment
Platform
- Windows support
- Macos support
- Linux support
Localization
- JavaScript language support
- TypeScript language support
- Python language support
- Java language support
- C++ language support
- Go language support
- Rust language support
- PHP language support
People bring Windsurf in for agentic development, ai-assisted coding, complex project management, automated coding tasks, learning new codebases. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Windsurf are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Windsurf
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 4 tiers between Free and $200/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Windsurf runs on macos, linux, windows, and is published by Codeium of Mountain View, CA. The full record is on the Windsurf review.
Windsurf pricing questions
- How much does Windsurf cost?
- Windsurf publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Free up to $200/month for Max. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Windsurf have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers light daily and weekly quotas, unlimited tab autocomplete, access to cascade ai agent. Paying starts at $20/month for Pro.
- What is the difference between Free and Pro on Windsurf?
- Pro costs $20/month against Free, and adds standard quotas, windsurf proprietary swe model, cloud sessions for background work.
- Is the Max plan on Windsurf worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is heavy daily quotas, long agent sessions, frontier third-party models. It costs $200/month against $20/month for Pro. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- What am I actually paying for with Windsurf?
- The record lists 31 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for agentic development, ai-assisted coding, complex project management.
- Does Windsurf charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Windsurf prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Windsurf against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Windsurf to make a useful price comparison.