Pick Continue if
developers who want the OSS extension and will point it at their own model.
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Our take
Pick Continue if developers who want the OSS extension and will point it at their own model. Pick Windsurf if software engineers who want an agent in a VS Code-like desktop and will accept Cognition’s routing. Skip Continue if people who want a maintained commercial IDE agent (Cursor, GitHub Copilot). Skip Windsurf if non-developers, or teams that cannot send code to a third-party model API.
Best for
Continue An OSS Copilot-shaped sidebar you configure yourself
Windsurf Changing a repo in an editor
Free plan
Continue $0 · apache 2.0. You pay the model provider
Windsurf $0 · limited quota
Lowest paid
Continue Not published by the vendor
Windsurf Pro $20/mo
Next step up
Continue
Windsurf Max from $200/mo
Coding agent
Continue User Settings
Windsurf Devin Local
Runs where
Continue Hosted
Windsurf
Watch out
Continue The repo is read-only
Windsurf The name moved
Last checked
Continue 2026-10-19 · continue.dev
Windsurf 2026-10-19 · windsurf.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Windsurf if
software engineers who want an agent in a VS Code-like desktop and will accept Cognition’s routing.
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