1 category · RankedWindsurf
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI coding assistants | Developer platform | 10% | 2 of 46 | 19% | 26 | accepted challenger |
Movement
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Codeium (Best Free Option) ... Codeium's free tier or GitHub Copilot's $10/month plan offer the best balance of cost and functionality.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · AI coding · budget prompt · first choice
“recommend starting with GitHub Copilot ... or Codeium (for cost efficiency and privacy options) as pilots” Claude Haiku 4.5 · AI coding · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Windsurf is widely considered one of the best AI coding assistants for companies with a limited budget” Qwen 3.7 Flash · AI coding · budget prompt · first choice
“Start with Codeium's free tier — it offers the most generous free plan with unlimited completions.” Kimi K2 · AI coding · budget prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“avoid standard free-tier or public instances of major AI coding assistants (such as GitHub Copilot standard, Cursor, or Windsurf)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · AI coding · negative prompt · hard negative
“Listed among tools impacted by IDEsaster; vulnerable to the same chaining of prompt injection with IDE features” GLM 4.7 FlashX · AI coding · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid: Free tiers of Copilot/Windsurf for proprietary code” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AI coding · negative prompt · hard negative
“(such as Claude Code, Devin, Cursor, and Windsurf) ... they introduce severe new attack surfaces” Gemini 3.5 Flash · AI coding · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 66 of the 80 answers that named Windsurf and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
186 of the 186 domain citations in answers naming Windsurf came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Windsurf
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