Head-to-Head Comparison
Augment Code vs Windsurf
Which Code Assistant is right for you? See our complete breakdown.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Augment Code | Windsurf |
|---|---|---|
| MegaOne Score | 5/10 | 7/10 |
| Category | Code Assistant | Code Assistant |
| Pricing Model | Paid Only | Freemium |
| Starting Price | $100.00/mo | $20.00/mo |
| Free Tier | No | Yes |
| API Available | No | No |
| Open Source | No | No |
| iOS App | No | No |
| Android App | No | No |
| Chrome Extension | No | No |
| Company | Augment Code | Cognition AI |
| Total Funding | $252M | $243M |
Visual Comparison
Augment Code Windsurf
About Augment Code
Augment Code is an AI coding assistant that deeply understands large codebases to provide context-aware suggestions, chat, and autonomous agents for software development.
Augment Code is an agentic software development solution built around a proprietary Context Engine capable of indexing up to 500,000 files across complex codebases, providing deep contextual understanding. It orchestrates AI agents across the full software development lifecycle, offering features like code generation, editing, and review within various IDEs and the CLI to enhance software quality and team productivity.
About Windsurf
Windsurf is an AI-native code editor that leverages an agentic AI called Cascade to automate and accelerate software development tasks across entire codebases.
Windsurf, now rebranded as Devin Desktop, is an AI-powered integrated development environment (IDE) built on a VS Code foundation, designed for AI-assisted development. Its core feature, Cascade, acts as an agentic AI system capable of understanding entire codebases, executing multi-step tasks, debugging, refactoring, and generating code across multiple files. It aims to streamline the development process by treating AI as a first-class collaborator, enabling developers to automate repetitive tasks and focus on innovation.
The Verdict
Windsurf takes the edge
With a MegaOne score of 7/10 versus 5/10, Windsurf edges ahead of Augment Code in our analysis. However, Augment Code may still be the better choice depending on your specific use case and budget.
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