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Quick verdict: Windsurf edges ahead with a 4.5/5 rating vs 4.2/5. 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	Replit
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	✓	—
Replit Agent for fully autonomous app building from natural language	—	✓
Browser-based IDE with no installation required	—	✓
Automatic debugging and retry on errors during generation	—	✓
Built-in hosting and deployment (Replit Deployments)	—	✓
Database support with PostgreSQL via neon.tech	—	✓
Collaborative real-time editing for teams	—	✓
Support for Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Java, and more	—	✓
AI code completion and chat assistant	—	✓
Secrets manager for environment variable handling	—	✓
Template library for common app types	—	✓

AI-native IDE by Codeium with deep agentic coding and flow state focus

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Browser-based IDE with AI agent that builds and deploys apps from natural language

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