Amp vs Windsurf — Which AI Agent Is Better?
An in-depth comparison of Amp and Windsurf across output quality, autonomy, reliability, speed, value, and ease of use. Vote for your favorite.
An in-depth comparison of Amp and Windsurf across output quality, autonomy, reliability, speed, value, and ease of use. Vote for your favorite.
Pick a winner in each category — you can change your vote anytime.
AmpWindsurfChoose Amp if you are teams that want maximum-capability agentic coding and will pay for tokens at cost. Choose Windsurf if you are developers who want an affordable AI editor with agentic capabilities.
Editorially this matchup is a dead heat: each agent leads in 3 of our six categories. On price, Amp runs usage-based credits / free tier and is proprietary; Windsurf runs free tier / $15-30/mo and is proprietary.
Amp is Sourcegraph's take on agentic coding: no model picker, no knobs — it always runs frontier models with maximum reasoning and leans into autonomy. Work happens in shareable threads across the VS Code extension and CLI, with subagents for parallelizable work and team visibility into how colleagues prompt. It's deliberately opinionated and token-hungry; credits are consumed at cost, so sustained heavy use gets expensive, and there's no BYO-key escape hatch.
Windsurf (formerly Codeium) is an AI-first code editor featuring Cascade — an agentic flow that can handle multi-file, multi-step coding tasks. It combines the familiarity of VS Code with powerful AI capabilities including code generation, refactoring, and terminal integration.
Whichever AI agent you choose, Standard Compute gives you unlimited LLM compute at one flat monthly price. No rate limits, no per-token billing.
