Windsurf vs GitHub Copilot
The two at the top of the Cursor Alternatives board. Neither is reviewed here and neither is scored: positions on that board are bought, and each one says what it paid.
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
Completions, chat and agent mode inside VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim and GitHub itself.
- On the Cursor board
- #2
- 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.