Introduction

Codeium is an AI-based programming assistant designed to improve developers' coding efficiency and experience. It helps programmers write high-quality code faster with intelligent code completion, suggestions, and automation features.CodeiumOfficial Website https://codeium.com

WindsurfOnce touted as a free, powerful AI code editor that rivaled giants like GitHub Copilot and Cursor, it's now made significant changes to its pricing model. These changes, while necessary for sustainability, have sparked debate among developers. However, despite these adjustments, Windsurf is still one of the best free alternatives to Cursor, especially since it offers unlimited free access to Cascade Base models.Introduction to Windsurfhttps://codeium.com/windsurf

Windsurf AI The editor is very popular these days, and is similar to the Cursor ai editor, but cheaper than cursor. A few days ago it was only $10, but now the price has gone up to $15 for access to advanced models like GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet, and Supercomplete.

While the price increase may deter some users, Windsurf's free plans still outperform many of its competitors with their robust features, and unless a premium model is required, the premium plans are optional for most developers.

Product Pricing

Official price presentation address: https://codeium.com/pricing

Windsurf has introduced a new tiered credit system to manage the cost of delivering advanced AI features, such as models powered by Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o. The new pricing is as follows:

Complimentary Packages: Includes unlimited access to Cascade Base (non-premium version). For Premium models, 5 User Alert credits and 5 Process Action credits per month.

Professional level ($15/month): 500 User Tip Credits and 1,500 Process Action Credits. Additional points can be purchased as Flex Points ($10 for 300 points).

Professional Ultimate ($60/month): Unlimited User Alert credits and 3,000 Process Action credits. Additional 400 Flex credits cost $10 and provide better value for heavy users!

Educational Benefits

If you are a U.S. education email login Windsurf after the price page you can see the following picture of this tip, edu email verification is $6.9/month.

Congrats! You're eligible for student pricing. Offer only available for the first 4200 signups.Congratulations!You are eligible for student rates.Offer only applies to the first 4200 users to register.

Eligibility

A. Codeium Student Subscriptions are available only to students of accredited institutions of higher education ("Eligible Students") who meet the additional qualifications set forth below.

B. You are required to submit certain information in order for us to verify that you are an Eligible Student. This information includes your name, valid educational institution, e-mail address, date of birth and/or other documentation ("Eligible Information"), and your payment details.

C. We may use third party services to assist in verifying your eligibility information. We reserve the right to determine, in our sole discretion, whether you are an Eligible Student.Exafunction will store your name, the name of your educational institution, your e-mail address, and your date of birth.

D. By requesting a Codeium for Students subscription and submitting qualifying information, you understand that any personal information we may collect and process pursuant to your Codeium for Students subscription will be in accordance with ourprivacy policyConduct. This will include collecting, storing, and sharing your name, educational institution name, email address, and date of birth with third parties to evaluate your eligibility for a Codeium for Students subscription.

Preferential time limit

Eligible Students may receive a discounted subscription to Codeium Pro on a monthly basis (each month is referred to as a "Discount Month") for up to twelve (12) consecutive months ("Discount Period"). Eligible Students have the right to activate up to three (3) additional Discount Periods for themselves by resubmitting their eligible information for re-verification.

Eligible students who have reached the maximum term limit for a Codeium for Students subscription as described above will be automatically migrated to a Codeium Pro subscription on a recurring monthly basis at the end of the current discount period for the full price at that time. If you do not wish to migrate your subscription to Codeium Pro at the end of the discount period, you may cancel your subscription at any time before the end of the discount period by following the steps below.

You may cancel your Codeium for Students subscription at any time by logging into your account and following the prompts. Cancellations will take effect when the current discount month expires. You may also delete your account at any time by logging into your account and following the prompts.

Original official article: https://codeium.com/student-terms-and-conditions Last updated on January 14, 2025

Application Process

We open the registration address: https://codeium.com/account/register It is more convenient to register directly with an edu e-mail address, which can only be used with a U.S. edu e-mail address.

Then open https://codeium.com/pricing我们就看到价格已经变化 directly once again after you have registered:

Confirmation of success

We follow the steps in the above figure and click on Select plan to select the plan to bring up the content as shown in the figure below:

You must be a currently enrolled student with a valid .edu email address to proceed. Please review and agree to ourTerms and Conditionsto confirm your eligibility.

You must be a currently enrolled student with a valid .edu email address to continue. Please read and agree to our terms and conditions to confirm your eligibility. We clicked to confirm the order payment after the image below has shown the educational discounted price for a subscription to Codeium ProUS$6.90 per month.

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What is Codeium?

Codeium is a modern coding super-tool, a code acceleration toolkit built on cutting-edge AI technology. Currently, Codeium has two main features: auto-completion, which suggests code you want to type, saving you time on everything from samples to unit tests; and search, which helps you search your repository using natural language questions. With easy integration into the editor, we want you to focus on being the best software developer you can be, not the best coder you can be.

What is Windsurf?

We don't mind if you call Windsurf Editor the first agent IDE, the first native interface for developers to collaborate with AI, or just our favorite idea - tomorrow's editor today.

When we first started using Windsurf Editor, we realized that many of the words that resonated with us included magic, power, and flow states. Windsurfing perfectly captures the combination of man, machine and nature, an activity that seems effortless but requires a lot of power.

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

We tried them all and summarized the results on our comparison page! Codeium has industry-leading latency and quality in code autocompletion similar to tools like GitHub Copilot, while being free, available in more IDEs, and offering more functionality (e.g. Codeium Search). We believe that our philosophy - (a) combining state-of-the-art ML with a world-class ML infrastructure in a vertically integrated manner, and (b) relying heavily on developer feedback to shape the product roadmap - is a radical departure from existing approaches and will result in easier-to-use, more powerful, higher quality products.