{"slug":"windsurf","name":"Windsurf","domain":"windsurf.com","verdict":"As of 2026-07-13, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok collectively rank Windsurf #5 of 6 for code editor for ai-assisted development (one of 3 leaderboards it appears on). Source: https://modelsagree.com/product/windsurf (modelsagree.com, CC BY 4.0).","best_rank":5,"categories":3,"entries":[{"slug":"best-code-editor-for-ai-development","title":"Best code editor for AI-assisted development","rank":5,"of":6,"score":8,"appearances":3,"modelRanks":{"Claude":5,"Gemini":2,"Grok":3},"reason":"Developed by Codeium, Windsurf is in a near-tie with Cursor, offering a highly integrated Cascade agent system that is exceptionally fluid and excels at autonomous, multi-step tasks (planning, running terminal commands, and writing code) with minimal user friction.","reasons":[{"model":"Gemini","reason":"Developed by Codeium, Windsurf is in a near-tie with Cursor, offering a highly integrated Cascade agent system that is exceptionally fluid and excels at autonomous, multi-step tasks (planning, running terminal commands, and writing code) with minimal user friction."},{"model":"Grok","reason":"Excellent free tier autocomplete, strong Cascade planning/execution for beginners, fast performance and multi-model support in an AI-first environment"},{"model":"Claude","reason":"Cascade remains a genuinely strong agentic flow with good codebase awareness at aggressive pricing, and Cognition's ownership has kept it shipping"}],"fixes":[{"model":"Claude","fix":"The 2025 leadership exodus to Google and ownership churn make its long-term roadmap the riskiest bet on this list — cautious teams should prefer Cursor or Copilot"},{"model":"Gemini","fix":"Its autonomous agent can sometimes run off-track or execute incorrect sequences without prompt user intervention, and its extension compatibility can occasionally lag behind vanilla VS Code."},{"model":"Grok","fix":"Better advanced codebase indexing and multi-agent orchestration for large repos"}],"updated":"2026-07-13","rank_history":{"days":["2026-07-07","2026-07-08","2026-07-09","2026-07-10","2026-07-12","2026-07-13"],"ranks":[5,3,null,null,2,5]},"reasoning_shift":[{"model":"Gemini","from":"2026-07-12","to":"2026-07-13","added":[{"t":"autonomous multi-step tasks","q":"excels at autonomous, multi-step tasks (planning, running terminal commands, and writing code) with minimal user friction"},{"t":"agent can run off-track","q":"Its autonomous agent can sometimes run off-track or execute incorrect sequences without prompt user intervention"},{"t":"extension compatibility can lag","q":"its extension compatibility can occasionally lag behind vanilla VS Code"}],"dropped":[{"t":"context across sessions","q":"Cascade memory that tracks system state and maintains context across sessions"},{"t":"fully offline local execution","q":"a fully offline mode with local model execution for strict enterprise privacy compliance"}]},{"model":"Claude","from":"2026-07-12","to":"2026-07-13","added":[{"t":"good codebase awareness","q":"good codebase awareness"},{"t":"ownership kept it shipping","q":"Cognition's ownership has kept it shipping"},{"t":"prefer Cursor or Copilot","q":"cautious teams should prefer Cursor or Copilot"}],"dropped":[{"t":"gentlest onboarding","q":"the onboarding is the gentlest of the AI-native IDEs"},{"t":"agentic coding without configuration","q":"agentic coding without configuration"},{"t":"near-tie with Zed","q":"near-tie with Zed for the fourth spot"}]}],"api":"https://modelsagree.com/api/v1/best/best-code-editor-for-ai-development.json"},{"slug":"best-ai-codebase-chat-tools-for-large-repositories","title":"Best AI codebase chat tools for large repositories","rank":5,"of":9,"score":2,"appearances":1,"modelRanks":{"Gemini":4},"reason":"Features Cascade, a highly proactive agentic system that excels at maintaining state across complex, multi-file code modifications inside a VS Code fork. Near-tie with Cursor for daily IDE flow, but ranks below it due to Cursor's more refined local indexing and larger community ecosystem.","reasons":[{"model":"Gemini","reason":"Features Cascade, a highly proactive agentic system that excels at maintaining state across complex, multi-file code modifications inside a VS Code fork. Near-tie with Cursor for daily IDE flow, but ranks below it due to Cursor's more refined local indexing and larger community ecosystem."}],"fixes":[{"model":"Gemini","fix":"Operates on a closed-source subscription model with limited customization for local models or custom API endpoints."}],"updated":"2026-07-17","api":"https://modelsagree.com/api/v1/best/best-ai-codebase-chat-tools-for-large-repositories.json"},{"slug":"best-ai-coding-assistant","title":"Best AI coding assistant","rank":6,"of":7,"score":3,"appearances":2,"modelRanks":{"Gemini":4,"Grok":5},"reason":"Extremely powerful Cascade agent system that autonomously navigates and edits large codebases, paired with superior automatic context retrieval. Near-tie with Cursor but ranked lower due to occasional agent over-aggressiveness requiring close oversight.","reasons":[{"model":"Gemini","reason":"Extremely powerful Cascade agent system that autonomously navigates and edits large codebases, paired with superior automatic context retrieval. Near-tie with Cursor but ranked lower due to occasional agent over-aggressiveness requiring close oversight."},{"model":"Grok","reason":"Strong free/affordable alternative with solid autocomplete, refactoring, and multi-language support; good balance of speed and reliability for many devs"}],"fixes":[{"model":"Gemini","fix":"The autonomous agent can make unexpected structural rewrites, making it less suitable for developers who want exact, granular control over every generated line."},{"model":"Grok","fix":"Improve multi-file reasoning and benchmark scores to reach top-tier agentic performance"}],"updated":"2026-07-15","rank_history":{"days":["2026-06-29","2026-06-30","2026-07-08","2026-07-09","2026-07-10","2026-07-12","2026-07-13","2026-07-14","2026-07-15"],"ranks":[4,5,null,6,null,4,6,8,6]},"reasoning_shift":[{"model":"Gemini","from":"2026-07-14","to":"2026-07-15","added":[{"t":"navigates and edits large codebases","q":"autonomously navigates and edits large codebases"},{"t":"superior automatic context retrieval","q":"superior automatic context retrieval"},{"t":"unexpected structural rewrites","q":"The autonomous agent can make unexpected structural rewrites"}],"dropped":[{"t":"strong team administration","q":"strong team administration"},{"t":"JetBrains support","q":"JetBrains support"},{"t":"platform updates and integrations lag","q":"Platform updates and ecosystem integrations lag behind official VS Code releases."}]}],"api":"https://modelsagree.com/api/v1/best/best-ai-coding-assistant.json"}],"page":"https://modelsagree.com/product/windsurf","check":"https://modelsagree.com/check?q=Windsurf","updated":"2026-08-10T18:18:45.051Z","attribution":"modelsagree.com, CC BY 4.0"}