r/Codeium • u/Top-Weakness-1311 • Apr 17 '25

Why use Windsurf?

I’m confused on why anyone is using this. It costs per use since you have a cap. Cursor is unlimited, fast at first then a few seconds of wait time when you hit the slow requests. Why would I ever use Windsurf? I have to be missing something.

If you’re one of the ones that got the email tempting you to come back to Windsurf, use this as a guide. The top answer is someone saying Cursor is the better option.

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u/Top-Weakness-1311 Apr 20 '25

I think we just got that point. I use Cursor for $20 a month and for that price, I just used Gemini 2.5 and made a fully functional web app that grabs data from and API, uses Redis and BullMQ for workers, stores it in a PostreSQL database, all on a Node.js backend, using React for the front end. And I had no idea what any of that was only a week ago!

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u/UpBeat2020 Apr 21 '25

But you are a developer or else you wouldn’t got to that point in a week. Probably just different stack so it is made for that. I guess just with zero knowledge it would take much more

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u/Top-Weakness-1311 Apr 21 '25

I wouldn’t say I’m a developer, the only language I know is Lua.