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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Visual Studio

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AVisual Studio (now in the 2022 edition) is a 64-bit IDE that makes it easier to work with bigger projects and complex workloads, boasting a fluid and responsive experience for users. The IDE features IntelliCode, its automatic code completion tools that understand code context and that can complete up to a whole line at once to drive accurate and confident coding.

    $45

    per month

    Windsurf

    N/AN/AWindsurf (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
    Visual StudioWindsurf
    Editions & Modules
    Professional
    $45.00
    per month
    Enterprise
    $250.00
    per month
    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)
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    Pricing Offerings
    Visual StudioWindsurf
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Visual StudioWindsurf
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    Cognition AI, Inc.
    Chose Windsurf
    Windsurf would be more comparable to GitHub Copilot or Perplexity to me. I think it's more of a pure code debugging line by line than some of the other tools listed above, however, they all have some capabilities to rewrite and test new coding. It boils down to what toolset …
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    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
    Visual StudioWindsurf
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (105 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)