This was originally a post I made on LinkedIn but I thought I’d share it here too, just in case anyone stumbles across my site without visiting my LinkedIn first.

Some interesting changes in the AI coding world with this new pricing update from Windsurf that they released just hours ago (https://windsurf.com/blog/pricing-v2) and agent support in JetBrains IDEs with their Cascade plugin.

With the first change they are getting rid of the flow credits that were used for tool calls. Now instead of having prompt credits and flow credits they’ve moved things into just prompt credits, and unlike Cursor that costs you a credit/tool call, they are just charging 1 credit per prompt (with no extra charge for the tool calls). Huge move by Windsurf that I’m sure will have lots of people moving over from Cursor.

The second new feature (or at least feature I just noticed) is agent support with Cascade in JetBrains IDEs – this is pretty huge for me – it has always been my favourite IDE and trying to work with Cursor/Windsurf in the VSCode based environment has been not the best. I’m not sure if there have been any other plugins before this that integrated with JetBrains but it is definitely an interesting move and (I think) a smart play for Windsurf with the tension they have with Microsoft right now regarding the VSCode extensions that forks have been stopped from using.

I wonder when or if Cursor will follow suit (I’m sure they will). It’s so nice to be working in an early space like this where you get to watch in real time as different applications and their respective creators compete over pricing and features, watch as prices go down and you get more features for your money while at the same time, as an example, your Netflix bill keeps going up for shows you’ve already watched.

As a side note OpenAI just released GPT 4.1 and it is free to use in Windsurf until April 28 and sits at the top of lots of LLM leaderboards for code development https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/

I know these tools are a bit flaky still but the red hot competition always has me excited for what comes next. If you’re someone like me hooked on novelty and news of new things then the AI field is certainly the one you want to be looking at right now.