IntelliJ IDEA vs. Windsurf

IntelliJ IDEA

348 Reviews and Ratings

Windsurf

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IntelliJ IDEA	Score9.4 out of 10	N/A	IntelliJ IDEA is an IDE that aims to give Java and Kotlin developers everything they need out of the box, including a smart code editor, built-in developer tools, framework support, database support, web development support, and much more.	$19.90 per month
Windsurf	N/A	N/A	Windsurf (formerly Codeium) is an AI dev tool that is self-hosted for security, with features including rapid code autocomplete, in-editor AI chat assistant, repo natural language search, end-to-end data encryption.	$15 per month for 500 prompt credits/month Equivalent to 2,000 GPT-4.1 prompts (4 prompts per credit)

Pricing

IntelliJ IDEA

Windsurf

For Individual Use (Monthly billing): $19.90
per month
For Organizations (Monthly billing): $71.90
per month
For Individual Use (Yearly billing): $199
per year
For Organizations (Yearly billing): $719
per year

Pro: $15
per month 500 credits/mo
Team: $30
per month per user (500 credits/user/mo)
Enterprise: $60
per month per user (up to 200 users & 1,000 credits/user/mo)
Enterprise (more than 200 uses): Contact Sales

Pricing Offerings
IntelliJ IDEA	Windsurf
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

All Products Pack (For Individual Use) – $299 /1st year, $ 239 /2nd year and $ 179 /3d year onwards All Products Pack (For Organizations) – $979 / year

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	IntelliJ IDEA	Windsurf
Considered Both Products	JetBrains Animesh Kumar Senior Member of Technical Staff in Engineering at athenahealth (Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose IntelliJ IDEA IntelliJ stacks better against Eclipse or vs code because it provides better code suggestions, out-of-the-box SonarLint integration, and built-in support for version control with git. It also has a vast collection of plugins that can increase developer productivity, reduce … Incentivized Helpful?	Cognition AI, Inc. No answer on this topic
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	IntelliJ IDEA	Windsurf
Likelihood to Recommend	9.7 (59 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	5.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.1 (8 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.9 (15 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)