Small business▲+2Since September 2026: 19% → 20%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
20%from 19% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 2 of 37, unchanged
1 category · RankedWindsurf
109Judge labels
17First choices
12Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
19% in AI coding for small business buyers
Rank 2 of 48 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 9% of its 34 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Windsurf →By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
Small business2 of 39
19%50 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market2 of 48
14%34 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise8 of 52
0%24 labels
criticized challenger
In ai coding · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Windsurf for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI coding assistants | Developer platform | 14% | 2 of 48 | 9% | 34 | accepted challenger | ▲+3Since September 2026: 10% → 14%, +3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Windsurf held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · AI coding · by segment
Mid-market▲+3Since September 2026: 10% → 14%, +3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
14%from 10% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 2 of 43, unchanged
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 8 of 49, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI coding | 10% | 14% | ▲+3Since September 2026: 10% → 14%, +3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 2 of 48, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Windsurf across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Windsurf across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct16 labelsNone
Paraphrase14 labels1
Comparative25 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained29 labels16
Scale-constrained8 labelsNone
Negative17 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative109 labels in all, every segment counted; 17 of the 19 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Codeium – best free unlimited usage ... Zero budget / proof of concept: Codeium free unlimited + Amazon Q Developer free tier” Muse Glimmer 30B · AI coding · budget prompt · first choice
“The best AI coding assistant for a company with a limited budget is Windsurf, which is priced at $15/month.” Llama 4 Maverick · AI coding · budget prompt · first choice
“The Top Pick for $0 Budget: Codeium ... is the strongest option for a budget-conscious team” Qwen 3.7 Flash · AI coding · budget prompt · first choice
“Codeium stands out as the best AI coding assistant for a company with a limited budget.” Grok 4.20 · 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.
“Cursor, Replit, Windsurf, OpenAI Codex. Named in the 43.1% unauthorized file operations taxonomy” Muse Glimmer 30B · AI coding · negative prompt · soft negative
“Augment and Windsurf did not issue swift fixes, leaving their users temporarily exposed.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · AI coding · negative prompt · soft negative
“Augment and Windsurf had not provided a fix update at the time of publication” GPT-6 Luna · AI coding · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Windsurf, over the 97 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Windsurf was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Windsurf, over the 97 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Windsurf was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Windsurf. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 91 of the 97 answers that named Windsurf and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
dev.to42
resources.rework.com33
tech-insider.org33
kilo.ai32
augmentcode.com31
daily.dev22
sourcegraph.com22
learn.g2.com19
zoer.ai19
docs.github.com18
271 of the 271 domain citations in answers naming Windsurf came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
windsurf.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Windsurf takes 14% of first choices and GitHub Copilot takes 75%.ShowHide
Search and answers
windsurf.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Windsurf takes 14% of first choices and GitHub Copilot takes 75%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “ai coding assistant”
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not in the top ten
Position for “ai coding assistants”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 60,500 a month (“windsurf”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 4,501 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 21,603 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 345 · 78 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 13,455
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
14%
rank 2 of 48 in AI coding
Segment leader
75%
GitHub Copilot
- First choices
- 17 across its categories
- Named in
- 97 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 91 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on windsurf.com
652
subdomains included
Content
431
counted in the table below
Documentation
1
Product · Integration
1 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 365 | 0 | 2026-07-01 | AI coding | |
| Case study | 49 | 16 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Comparison | 11 | 0 | 2024-04-01 | ||
| Report or ebook | 4 | 0 | 2023-03-01 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | 0 | 2025-04-03 |
Most recent
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page windsurf.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read October 5, 2026.
Names read as Windsurf
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Windsurf; a claim can dispute any of them.
Codeium 9Codeium (Windsurf) 2Windsurf (Codeium) 2Codeium / Windsurf (now Devin Desktop) 1Codeium Enterprise 1Codeium/Windsurf 1Windsurf (Devin Desktop) 1Windsurf (by Cognition) 1Windsurf / Devin Desktop 1Windsurf Pro 1
Follow Windsurf
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Windsurf is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Windsurf is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- the new name for Devin Desktop
- For
- developers
- Price stated
- Free $0; Pro $20 per month; Max $200 per month; Teams $80/mo + $40/mo per full seat; Enterprise Let's talk windsurf.com
- Starting price
- 0 windsurf.com
- Free plan or trial
- Free $0 windsurf.com
- Customers named
- RampHarveyNVIDIAModalIntact Financial
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications, hosting
What Windsurf's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: windsurf.com, windsurf.com/pricing, trust.windsurf.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Windsurf's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Windsurf, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Windsurf by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Windsurf is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Windsurf, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Windsurf is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Windsurf is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideWindsurf is among the products AI models recommend first in AI coding assistants this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.