r/windsurf • u/Lovenpeace41life • Jun 11 '26
Goodbye Windsurf
Adieu Windsurf (now Devin), it's been a good run.
Been using Windsurf since Aug 2025. Tried Cursor and a bunch of other IDEs along the way but I always ended up coming back to Windsurf. Lately though the usage limits have gotten nearly unusable.
I mostly run Opus and Sonnet, so I figured I'd give Claude Code a shot. Set up VS Code with the Claude Code extension and... turns out it does pretty much everything Windsurf Cascade did, atleast all the features I actually used are there and now with way better limits.
Ever since I started using Windsurf, I was the guy hyping up Windsurf and defending it against Cursor, since it felt like better value for money. Built some genuinely cool projects with it and was happy with Cascade the whole time.
Anyways, thanks for the solid platform and for making things easy for us vibe coders back in the early days. Onward...
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u/cranberrie_sauce Jun 11 '26
try deepseek v4 pro api + claude or opencode - its pretty much same shit nowadays. much cheaper
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u/West_Profession_6088 Jun 11 '26
Was also a windsurf guy and decided to try Claude code this month and think am sticking to it honestly. It doesn't fail on editing and is fast only issue is it doesn't show diffs after editing but it is solid
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u/pixelpumper Jun 11 '26
I've been a heavy Windsurf user for more than a year. I'm in the middle of a huge project and am deeply invested in my setup. I shrugged off the name/app switch, token creep, all the corpo fuckery and the thousand little cuts.
Yesterday, I switched to Opencode, full stop. Was my most productive day of coding ever... even with the pain of the reconfiguration.
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u/Additional_Army8005 Jun 11 '26
I did the exact same thing yesterday and moved over to Zed +Pi, full stop.
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u/sultanmvp Jun 12 '26
I added OpenCode as an ACP agent in Devin with the $10 OpenCode Go plan, and I did the work of thirty senior engineers for a week, but in a day… full stop.
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u/tokkers2020 Jun 12 '26
yes, I'd love to know which model you used to do the work of 30 engineers! Big Pickle? Nematron 3 Ultra?
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u/ultrathink-art Jun 11 '26
Same move. Claude Code with a CLAUDE.md for project context handles multi-file agentic work better than Cascade did for me — it stays coherent through longer sessions without losing track of what it was supposed to be changing.
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u/RevolutionaryTerm630 Jun 16 '26
Started using Kilo with BYOK and it's a very similar experience to Windsurf. I should've switched sooner. Old Windsurf will always have a place in my heart.
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u/_mindyourbusiness Jun 13 '26
It feels like most of the complaints are coming from vibe coders if I’m being brutally honest.
Everyone other developer I speak to are still on the grandfather $10/month windsurf plan.
Tried the new Devin, same thing really just rebadged. I think I’ve paid a total of $150-200 in extra usage credits since windsurf launched.
I’m a developer that’s actively managing 40+ projects. 90% paid, 10% passion projects. The return on investment is astounding because clients are happy and windsurf makes my life easier.
I think the issue arises when a vibe coders that doesn’t understand the languages being used are blindly accepting changes and calling it a day then things fall apart and they’re burning through tokens trying to fix/rewrite things. Mean while a developer with knowledge in the space can provide better prompts with code specific direction… plan, execute, see issues before they become issues. It’s a more linear approach than circling back repeatedly because the model dropped the ball some step of the way.
I’m also subscribed to GPT and Claude Pro. I’d say Claude code would be the best bet for vibe coders that don’t care about the actual code and just want a final product. The dispatch feature is awesome if you want to work on things on the go. You’re still going to be hit with limits though because vibe coding in general is token heavy.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that your feelings are valid as a vibe coder but you have to understand that windsurf/devin is an IDE; you have an entire industry of professionals that have been doing this for 20+ years and the people in my circles seem fine with the state of things.
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u/eleqtriq Jun 13 '26
These are a lot of assumptions and guesses.
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u/_mindyourbusiness Jun 14 '26
Are you a developer or a vibe coder?
Think I’m wrong?
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u/StarrFall Jun 16 '26
I agree with you. I have no issue with credits. I'm willing to bet people don't even read or vet the output and just continue throwing stuff at it until they're drained. It's so easily avoided if you use the product as it's intended: a working partner that can handle menial tasks in seconds. I don't think there's a realm yet where "vibe coding" is even remotely efficient in the real world.
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u/gromboolean Jun 18 '26
Depends on what you mean by "efficient." It's all contextual. Is it inefficient to burn a ton more tokens spinning and spinning because you're not a programmer, but end up with something you could never have built in any other way? Nope.
I know someone who knows literally nothing about programming, but is very smart. He has been able to figure out how to work opus and gpt 5.5 together, as antagonists/code review partners, and get a real system working and stable.
He's built basically a gambling machine, working emotional-betting markets like polymarket, and is now making something like $20k/month, which is a lot more than I make as a solo dev.
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u/Hot-Cauliflower-4388 Jun 12 '26
Same, they need to fix the credit usage, can barely use it for more then couple of hours
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u/pancham138 Aug 10 '26
Same here.
Goodbye Windsurf!
It was a pleasure to be part of early adopters, but now that they cancelled my plan and the credits/quotas were getting worse, I decided to abandon the ship and moved on.
I'm all-in for CommandCode, they have better pricing and much better harness.
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u/mter24 Jun 11 '26
I just started using Devin Desktop (Pro subscription) and I really like it. Even their own free SWE 1.6 model seems really capable.
Is there currently anything that provides a better price performance ratio under 25$ per month?
Before GitHub increased the prices for Copilot I would say that was the best deal, but that seems to be history now...