head to head/AI Coding Assistants
Windsurf vs Zed
Neck and neck on boosts. Profiles, pricing and deals below.
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.
Zed
The blazing-fast editor built in Rust, with AI aboard
community boosts
⚡ 0
pricing
Open source
what it is
Zed is a from-scratch code editor engineered for speed - GPU-rendered, instant startup - with multiplayer editing and AI assistance built in. From the creators of Atom, open source and free.