Frequently Asked Questions

Popular Questions

What is Windsurf?

What programming languages do you support?

Will this always be free?

What is the Windsurf Pro Tier?

General

Why are you building Windsurf extension?

Who should use this?

Why am I getting bad results?

How is this different from GitHub Copilot, Tabnine, Replit Ghostwriter, etc.?

Feature Details

How does Windsurf Autocomplete work?

How does Windsurf Chat work?

How can you provide Windsurf Chat for free?

Who can use this?

Is Command included in the Enterprise and Teams tiers?

What IDEs support Command?

What model do you use for Command?

What IDEs and languages have Windsurf Chat?

What models are used?

When will AI just review all my code for me?

How does Supercomplete work?

How do I trigger Supercomplete?

Who should use this?

Personalization

How do I ask a question about my codebase in chat?

How can I tell what parts of my codebase considered when answering?

Why does Refactor/Explain/Docstring seem to not have context?

How can I improve the quality of responses?

Enterprise

What is special about Enterprise?

What guarantees exist on data security?

Tell me more about personalization.

Next Steps

Is there a community I can join?

Will there be other code editors supported?

Privacy & Ethics

Will Windsurf regurgitate private code?

Is there potential for bias, profanity, etc?

What data does Windsurf collect?

Does Windsurf train on GPL or non-permissively licensed code?

Long Term

Where is this heading?

Are you trying to build the singularity?