cream and Windsurf

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

Cascade is a lovely take on agentic flows.

A thoughtful team pushing the agentic-editor idea forward, with a clean editor to match.

Their pricing: Free (about 25 Cascade actions); Pro $20/mo, Max $200, Teams $40/user. Usage runs in daily and weekly quotas. Windsurf pricing. Checked 2026-08-09; check theirs for the latest.

Where cream fits

cream's Half & Half is $14.99 flat versus Windsurf Pro's $20 with daily and weekly quotas. The top open-weight models are included, Skim is a free way to start, 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.

cream

Windsurf

Price

From free (Skim) to $29.99/mo (Heavy)

$20/mo Pro

Budget

Flat monthly budget, a substantial 5-hour window

Daily and weekly quotas

Model

Moo'dle included (top open-weight models, picked per task)

Quota across providers

Shape

Desktop app + CLI

Editor

Runs your CLIs

Yes: your Claude Code + Codex

Windsurf is a polished editor at $20. cream is the gentle, model-included way in: free on Skim, $14.99 on Half & Half.

Give cream a try.

Free on Skim, $14.99/mo on Half & Half, $29.99 on Heavy. Top open-weight models included, and it runs your Claude Code and Codex too.

Join the launch list

We 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.