Windsurf / Cline

Side-by-side comparison of features, pricing, and performance.

Analysis Metric	Windsurf	Cline
Community Index	4.8	4.8
Entry Delta	Free / $15/mo (Pro)	Free (Open Source / BYOK)
Ease of Use	4.7	4.5
Customer Support	4.4	4.3
Features	4.8	4.8
Value for Money	4.5	4.9
Advantages	Unified agentic system where the AI assistant and edit agents run simultaneously. Remarkably fast autocomplete (Supercomplete) that anticipates multi-line edits. Deep codebase context indexing that doesn't drag editor performance.	Open-source and runs entirely inside VS Code as an interactive sidebar extension. Brings your own keys (BYOK) — supports OpenRouter, Ollama, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, and more. Full terminal command execution and file reading/writing with granular user permission checkpoints.
	Full Intel	Full Intel