cream vs Windsurf.
Windsurf's Cascade is genuinely clever, and the editor is polished. cream just comes at the same idea from the budget-friendly side.

What Windsurf is great at
Their pricing: Free (about 25 Cascade actions); Pro $20/mo, Max $200, Teams $40/user. Usage runs in daily and weekly quotas. Windsurf pricing. Prices as of mid-2026; check theirs for the latest.
cream is $14.99 flat versus Windsurf Pro's $20 with daily and weekly quotas. The top open-weight models are included, there is a free tier with ads, and cream runs your Claude Code and Codex too. cream is the no-pressure on-ramp; Windsurf is a richer editor when you are ready to spend more.
Windsurf is a polished editor at $20. cream is the gentle, model-included way in at $14.99, or free with ads.

Give cream a try.
$14.99/mo, or free with ads. Top open-weight models included, and it runs your Claude Code and Codex too.
Join the launch listWe stand on the shoulders of giants. cream is just trying to make agentic coding a little cheaper to start for folks who want to tinker without a $20 commitment. Genuine thanks to the Windsurf team.
