Is Cursor or Windsurf more stable?

Cursor has 2 recorded changes and is rated caution on a record dated 2026-10-12. Windsurf has 2 recorded changes. The page we cite for Windsurf does not name it when we last looked, on 2026-11-13. We are not comparing the two pricing histories.

Can I use Cursor and Windsurf together?

While both are in the AI Coding category, some teams use both for different workloads. Check each vendor's free tier limits to see if they complement your stack.

Compare Cursor and Windsurf free tiers side by side. Pricing, limits, change history, and risk assessment for developers.

Cursor vs Windsurf

Side-by-side free tier comparison. Catalogue dates here run to 2026-10-15.

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Verdict

Cursor offers a free tier ("Free"). We are not publishing a free-tier verdict for Windsurf. The page we cite for Windsurf does not name it when we last looked, on 2026-11-13. We are not comparing the two pricing histories.

A verdict here is not a fixed property of the vendor. A one-off pricing event demotes a vendor while its recorded date falls in the last 180 days and then lapses on its own, with nothing about the vendor having changed; a standing condition — a free tier withdrawn and not restored, a product retired — does not lapse with time. A badge carrying a date states the record it rests on; a badge with no date rests on no record in force.

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Cursor

Riskcaution 2026-10-12 restructured

CategoryAI Coding

TierFree

Verified2026-10-15

Last read2026-11-06

Changes2 recorded

AI code editor built on VS Code. Since 2026-10-12, Cursor's pricing docs (cursor.com/docs/models-and-pricing) say: "Cursor is sold as part of The X Subscription, one subscription for Grok, Cursor, and X." Free is $0, with limited Agent and Chat usage. Paid plans are Plus $8/month, Premium $30/month (4x Plus's usage), Super $100/month (15x) and Ultra $200/month (50x), or $80, $300, $1,000 and $2,000 a year. Each paid plan's usage is one weekly pool shared with Grok, covering Grok 4.7, Grok 4.6, Grok 4.5 and Cursor's Composer 2.5. Claude, GPT, Gemini and other third-party models are outside every plan's pool: on Premium and above they cost the model's API list price, paid from prepaid credit, and Free and Plus cannot use them or your own API keys. Teams seats are $30, $100 or $200 per user a month, and on Teams and Enterprise third-party models cost API list price plus the Cursor Token Rate. Existing Hobby, Pro ($20), Pro+ ($60), Ultra and Teams Standard and Premium subscribers keep their plans, with monthly usage pools and included third-party usage, until they choose to switch. Cursor announced the change on its forum on 2026-10-12 (forum.cursor.com/t/introducing-the-x-subscription/174450).

Cursor's data-use page says that with Privacy Mode off it may use and store your codebase data, prompts, editor actions and code snippets to train its models. To keep your code out of training, check that Privacy Mode is on in Cursor's settings; any user can turn it on. (From cursor.com/data-use, read 2026-10-15.)

Windsurf

Risk

CategoryAI Coding

TierFree

Verified2026-06-25

Last read2026-11-13

Changes2 recorded

Windsurf is now Devin Desktop ("Devin Desktop is the new name for Windsurf."), Cognition's AI IDE. windsurf.com/pricing redirects to devin.ai/pricing, which prices it together with Devin. The Free plan ($0) includes a "Light quota to code with agents", "Limited model availability", "Unlimited inline edits" and "Unlimited Tab completions", with quotas that reset daily and weekly. Pro is $20/month, Max $200/month, and Teams "$80/month for team plan + $40/mo per full dev seat"; paid plans can buy extra usage at API list prices. Pro subscribers on the old $15/month price keep it indefinitely.The page we cite for this offer does not name it when we last looked, on 2026-11-13, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

Pricing Change History

Cursor

restructured effective 2026-10-12 high impact

From October 12, 2026, new subscribers buy Cursor as part of The X Subscription, one plan for Grok, Cursor and X: Free $0, Plus $8, Premium $30, Super $100 and Ultra $200 a month, with one weekly usage pool shared with Grok that covers Cursor's own models. Third-party models such as Claude, GPT and Gemini are not included in any plan: on Premium and above they cost the model's API list price, paid from prepaid credit, and Free and Plus cannot use them. Hobby, Pro ($20), Pro+ ($60), Ultra and the Teams Standard and Premium seats continue for existing subscribers until they switch. Source ↗

restructured effective 2025-06-16 medium impact

Cursor moved Pro from 500 requests a month to usage-based pricing and introduced a $200/month Ultra tier. Source ↗

Windsurf

rebranded effective 2026-06-02 low impact

Cognition renamed Windsurf Devin Desktop. Existing Windsurf users kept their plans and prices. Source ↗

restructured effective 2026-03-19 medium impact

Windsurf replaced credits-based pricing with daily/weekly quotas (Mar 19, 2026). New tiers: Pro $20/mo (was $15), Teams $40/user/month, Max $200/month. Free tier changed from flexible credits to hard quotas. Existing Pro subscribers grandfathered at $15/mo Source ↗

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Cursor vs Windsurf

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Pricing Change History

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