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Quick verdict: Windsurf edges ahead with a 4.5/5 rating vs 4.4/5. See the full breakdown below.

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Free

Limited Cascade flows

Limited completions

Pro

$15/mo

500 fast requests

Unlimited slow completions

Teams

$35/user/mo

Centralized billing

Team analytics

4.5/5

100 reviews

Cascade Agent

Autonomous multi-file coding

IDE + Plugin

Dual deployment options

Source: AI Coding Compare, March 2026

Feature	Windsurf	Mintlify
Cascade AI agent for multi-file agentic coding tasks	✓	—
Real-time codebase awareness without manual context injection	✓	—
Inline completions with multi-line suggestion support	✓	—
Terminal command execution from within the agent	✓	—
Web search integration for documentation and research	✓	—
VS Code extension compatibility	✓	—
Available as both standalone IDE and editor plugin	✓	—
Support for multiple frontier AI models	✓	—
Codebase-aware chat with semantic search	✓	—
Collaborative features for team coding sessions	✓	—
AI docstring generation inside VS Code from function hover	—	✓
Hosted documentation platform with custom domains	—	✓
OpenAPI spec to documentation site generation	—	✓
Mintlify Chat — AI widget that answers questions from your docs	—	✓
Stale documentation detection based on code diffs	—	✓
MDX-based content authoring with React component support	—	✓
Built-in search powered by semantic similarity	—	✓
Analytics for search queries and unanswered questions	—	✓
Changelogs, API playgrounds, and interactive code samples	—	✓
GitHub integration for docs-as-code workflow	—	✓

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