Google AI Studio vs Windsurf

Side-by-side comparison of pricing, features and use cases.

Attribute	GGoogle AI Studio Visit Google AI Studio	WWindsurf Visit Windsurf
Summary	Google's workspace for prototyping with Gemini models and API keys	Agentic IDE that keeps you in flow
Categories	AI Code Editor	Coding AI Code Editor
Pricing model	Freemium	—
Company	Google LLC	Exafunction, Inc.
Key features	Build with Gemini models API key integration Multimodal input across text, code, images, audio and video Context window up to 2M tokens Context caching Search grounding	AI code completion Cascade coding agent Automated lint fixing MCP server support Terminal command integration Codebase memory
Use cases	Understanding video and documents Generating structured outputs Getting coding help Generating text, images and audio Function calling and code execution	Speeding up repetitive development work Helping new developers get up to speed on a codebase Fixing errors and lint issues faster
Demo videos	0	1

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