GitHub spends the week hardening enterprise governance and supply-chain security.
Windsurf alternatives
The best Windsurf alternatives in Infra & APIs, ranked by Sparkpulse's velocity_score.
About Windsurf
Windsurf is folding Devin into every surface — IDE, terminal, and a new local agent.
Windsurf, Cognition's AI IDE, is mid-merge with Devin. The 2.0 launch put Devin Cloud inside the editor; the late-April releases pushed further: Devin for Terminal (a Rust-written multi-model CLI agent shipped to all subscribers), a new Devin Local agent harness inside Windsurf claimed to be 30% more token-efficient than the original Cascade agent, and now Devin Review & Quick Review tooling. Frontier-model coverage is being kept current — GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7 both landed in April. The Agent Command Center continues to mature with kanban views, Spaces, and inbox refinements.
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Top 12 alternatives to Windsurf
Ranked by recent ship velocity. Tap any card for the full editorial breakdown, or pivot to a head-to-head.
Retool pushes self-hosted 4.0 to stable, laying RBAC and security groundwork for enterprise.
Unleash leans hard into AI-agent governance and self-hosting as its crawled feed fills with thought-leadership.
Auth0 hardens enterprise provisioning and refresh-token control, with AI agents in view
Depot turns its build-acceleration compute into a metered backend for AI agents.
ElevenLabs widens from TTS into a full voice-agent and music platform
Warp drops the terminal framing to bet on cloud software factories and agent orchestration
Rootly is wiring an AI agent and enterprise controls into the incident-response core.
Ably builds an AI agent transport on top of its realtime stack — human-in-the-loop and branching land in v0.3
SigNoz puts its AI teammate Noz in front of every cloud user.
Cursor pushes past the editor into an agent platform — automations, cloud agents, and its own models.
Tailscale is extending its identity fabric from networking into AI agent access.
Frequently asked questions
What are the best alternatives to Windsurf?
The top Windsurf alternatives we currently track in Infra & APIs are GitHub, Retool, Unleash, Auth0, Depot, ranked by recent ship velocity.
How is this list of Windsurf alternatives ranked?
Alternatives are ranked by Sparkpulse's velocity_score — release cadence + 30-day spark count + sector-relative ship rate.
Can I compare Windsurf directly with one of these alternatives?
Yes — every card has a "Compare with Windsurf" link to a side-by-side /compare page.