Cursor vs Cursor Composer vs Google Antigravity vs Windsurf
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Cursor
AI-first VS Code fork — agentic, codebase-aware editing
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Cursor Composer
Cursor's multi-file agent mode, now on the Composer 2.5 model
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Windsurf
Agentic AI IDE — rebranded Devin Desktop by Cognition, June 2026
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.6 / 10 | 8.1 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Subscription | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Hobby plan — standing free tier (not just a trial), 2,000 completions / 50 slow premium requests per month, no card required | — | — | — |
| Paid from | $20/month (Pro); Pro+ $60/month; Ultra $200/month; Teams $40/user/month | — | — | Free; Pro $20/month; Max $200/month; Teams $80/month + $40/seat/month |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | 1m+ developers | — | — | Not reliably disclosed |
| Founded | 2022 | 2024 | — | 2021 |
| Maker | SpaceX | — | — | Varun Mohan, Douglas Chen |
| Verdict | Cursor is the most polished AI-first code editor going — a VS Code fork that bakes model-aware autocomplete, multi-file agent edits and chat-with-your-codebase into the core editing loop. Tab completion and Composer are... |
Composer plans and executes changes across a codebase from one instruction — scaffolding a feature, renaming a pattern across files, updating an API contract — with a diff review step before anything lands. Cursor's own... |
Antigravity is Google's answer to Cursor and Windsurf, built around Gemini 3 and a Manager view that lets several coding agents run at once across a workspace. The Browser Subagent — a real Chrome instance the agent driv... |
Windsurf is now Devin Desktop: Cognition acquired the Codeium-built IDE in July 2025 and folded it into the Devin brand on June 2, 2026. The product itself remains a strong agentic editor — VS Code-derived, with the Rust... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.