Windsurf Chat
Your new AI-powered coding assistant that can write you code, answer your questions, and level up your productivity.
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Download pluginsWindsurf Chat is the best code LLM on the market
Leading Model Optionality
Family of in-house models, open-source based models, and third-part API-based models. Get the best results possible.
Trained with code specific tasks
Crafted to excel with full and multi repository context awareness and backed by our state-of-the-art reasoning engine. Get grounded results.
Broadest availability
Fully functional across the widest range of IDEs. Get the results where you want.
Better than ChatGPT at code-related questions
Use cases
Windsurf Chat redefines developer productivity by offering intuitive solutions for coding, troubleshooting, and team collaboration. Dive into its diverse use cases that illustrate how it can optimize every stage of your development process.
Explain code
Generate code
Debugging
Ask anything
Apply code diff
Features
Windsurf Chat is designed to be a seamless extension to your editor, with features that help you focus on writing code without ever leaving your editor.
Avoid copy-pasting code and help guide the AI to what you know to be relevant by referencing your functions, classes, files, directories, and repositories. Simply type “@” in the chat input box and refer to these entities by name.
Read moreContext Pinning
Pin a function, class, file, directory, or repo, and Windsurf will pay extra attention to them for better context in Chat responses.
Read moreInline Citations
Windsurf's reasoning engine helps pull in the most relevant context from across your codebase to ground responses. With inline citations, you can trust the responses by clicking into inline links to see where Windsurf is pulling information from.
Available for free in your favorite IDE
See how Windsurf Chat stacks up to the competition
 Windsurf |  Github Copilot |  Amazon Q | |
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| Visual Studio Code | |||
| JetBrains | |||
| Visual Studio | |||
| Eclipse | |||
| XCode | |||
| Models | |||
| Fast, code-biased models | |||
| GPT-4 + Claude 3.5 Sonnet | |||
| Llama 3.1 405B based code model | |||
| Context | |||
| Full Repository Context Awareness | |||
| Multirepository Context Awareness | |||
| @-mentions | |||
| Context Pinning | |||
| Custom Chat Context | |||
| Inline Citations | |||
| Features | |||
| Code Lenses | |||
| Highlight + Right Click for Shortcuts | |||
| Conversation History | |||
| Slash Commands | |||
| Chat Insights |
Frequently Asked Questions