head to head/AI Coding Assistants

Agent Island vs Windsurf

Neck and neck on boosts. Profiles, pricing and deals below.

Agent Island

status companion for your AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Grok, Cursor)

community boosts

0

pricing

Freemium

what it is

Free, open-source status companion for your AI coding agents — Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Grok, and Cursor: live session state, your-turn alerts, quotas and cost, all computed locally. No telemetry.

Windsurf

Agentic IDE built around flow state

community boosts

0

pricing

Freemium

what it is

Windsurf's Cascade agent plans and executes multi-step coding tasks with full codebase context. It competes head-on with Cursor with a gentler learning curve and generous free tier.