Head-to-Head Comparison
Continue vs Windsurf
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Feature Comparison
| Feature | Continue | Windsurf |
|---|---|---|
| MegaOne Score | 6/10 | 7/10 |
| Category | Code Assistant | Code Assistant |
| Pricing Model | Open Source | Freemium |
| Starting Price | Free / Open Source | $20.00/mo |
| Free Tier | Yes | Yes |
| API Available | No | No |
| Open Source | No | No |
| iOS App | No | No |
| Android App | No | No |
| Chrome Extension | No | No |
| Company | Continue Dev, Inc. (acquired by Cursor) | Cognition AI, Inc. |
| Total Funding | $6M | $243M |
Visual Comparison
Continue Windsurf
About Continue
An open-source IDE extension for AI-powered coding, acquired by Cursor in June 2026.
Continue.dev was an open-source IDE extension for VS Code and JetBrains that offered AI-powered autocomplete, chat, and codebase search. It was designed for deep customization and privacy, allowing developers to connect to any LLM provider, including local models via Ollama. The project was acquired by Cursor in June 2026 and its standalone development has ceased, with the GitHub repository now read-only.
About Windsurf
An AI-native code editor, now known as Devin Desktop, that enhances developer productivity through intelligent assistance and agentic capabilities.
Windsurf, rebranded as Devin Desktop on June 2, 2026, is an AI-native integrated development environment (IDE) built on a Visual Studio Code fork. Its core engine, Cascade (rewritten as Devin Local), provides multi-file reasoning, repository-scale comprehension, and multi-step task execution, allowing developers to code faster with intelligent assistance. The tool deeply integrates AI into the development experience, offering features like code completion, chat, and command execution, and supports various frontier AI models including Cognition's in-house SWE-1.6, Claude Sonnet 4.6, GPT-4.1,…
The Verdict
Windsurf takes the edge
With a MegaOne score of 7/10 versus 6/10, Windsurf edges ahead of Continue in our analysis. However, Continue may still be the better choice depending on your specific use case and budget.
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