Cursor vs Windsurf
Windsurf is what the Cursor Alternatives board currently puts in front of people leaving Cursor. See the whole Cursor Alternatives board. Neither is reviewed here and neither is scored: positions on that board are bought, and each one says what it paid.
Cursor is an AI-first code editor built on VS Code, with the model integrated into editing, refactoring and codebase questions.
- On the Cursor board
- Not listed — it is the board
- Paid for that spot
- —
- Offer to switchers
- —
VS Code-based AI editor with an agent that edits across files in the repo.
- On the Cursor board
- #1
- Paid for that spot
- Nothing — our pick
- Offer to switchers
- None
Which should you use instead of Cursor?
xAlternative does not answer that: nothing here is tested, and the order these two appear in was decided by what was paid for the position, not by us. Neither has paid to be on that board yet, so neither is offering anything to a switcher — both positions are unpaid picks of ours, and either can be claimed. The full board has every alternative to Cursor listed on this site.