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Tempo vs Windsurf

Our take

Pick Tempo if product teams who will stay on Free at $0 (250 issues / 100 docs / 500 local tests/month / 7-day history) while they open a first stage board, then Pro at $50/month (1 user) when they need unlimited issues — not Team $200 unless they need 5 included users, and not Enterprise unless they buy the custom tile. Pick Windsurf if software engineers who want an agent in a VS Code-like desktop and will accept

Tempo

Tempo

hosted team-IDE kanban

Windsurf

Windsurf

AI IDE (Codeium → Cognition)

Best for

Tempo A factory board you start at a public $

Windsurf Changing a repo in an editor

Free plan

Tempo $0 · /mo. 250 issues. 100 docs. 500 local tests/month. 7-day history

Windsurf $0 · limited quota

Lowest paid

Tempo Pro $50/mo

Windsurf Pro $20/mo

Next step up

Tempo

Windsurf Max from $200/mo

Coding agent

Tempo

Windsurf Devin Local

Runs where

Tempo Desktop editor; models hosted

Windsurf

Watch out

Tempo Free is 250 issues / 100 docs / 500 tests / 7-day history

Windsurf The name moved

Last checked

Tempo 2026-10-23 · tempo.new/pricing

Windsurf 2026-10-19 · windsurf.com/pricing

Which one, then?

Pick Tempo if

product teams who will stay on Free at $0 (250 issues / 100 docs / 500 local tests/month / 7-day history) while they open a first stage board, then Pro at $50/month (1 user) when they need unlimited issues — not Team $200 unless they need 5 included users, and not Enterprise unless they buy the custom tile.

Read the Tempo page

Pick Windsurf if

software engineers who want an agent in a VS Code-like desktop and will accept Cognition’s routing.

Read the Windsurf page

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