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Public story · 2026-03-01 · source-backed
Windsurf Wave 13 claims the #1 AI IDE ranking with Arena Mode (blind side-by-side model comparison, 40K+ votes), Plan Mode (step-by-step before code generation), and parallel agents via git worktrees. SWE-1.5 Free runs at 950 tok/s. Claude Sonnet 4.6 added with promotional pricing.
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Arena Mode is the standout. Run two agents on the same prompt with hidden model identities, vote on which performs better. 40K+ votes so far. Key finding from the community leaderboard: speed beats intelligence in most real-world tasks (Gemini 3 Flash beats Gemini 3 Pro). Plan...
Windsurf's Wave 13 makes SWE-1.5 free for all users for 3 months (full SWE-Bench-Pro performance). Five concurrent parallel Cascade agents via git worktrees. Arena Mode for blind A/B comparison with voting. Plan Mode as pre-implementation planning. GPT-5.2-Codex support with f...
Windsurf Wave 13 took #1 in the LogRocket Power Rankings with Arena Mode (A/B test models on your codebase), Plan Mode, and 5 parallel agents in Git worktrees at $15/mo. Cursor 2.0 counters with 8 parallel agents, async subagent trees, and Composer at 4x speed. Kimi K2.5 crash...
The LogRocket February 2026 Power Rankings reshuffled: | Rank | Tool | Price | Key Feature | |------|------|-------|-------------| | 1 | Windsurf | $15/mo | Arena Mode + parallel worktrees | | 2 | Antigravity (Google) | Free-$250 | Deep Google ecosystem integration | | 3 | Cur...
The February rankings reshuffled: Windsurf #1 (Arena Mode for side-by-side model comparison), Antigravity (Google) #2, Cursor #3 (8 async subagents + Multi-Agent Judging), Kimi Code NEW at #4 — the first open-source tool in the top 5 with 100-agent swarm capability backed by K...
MAI-Code-1-Flash, a 5B-parameter coding model, is in GitHub Copilot and VS Code, and Microsoft says it beats Claude Haiku 4.5 across core coding benchmarks, +16 points on SWE-Bench Pro at 51.2% versus 35.2%, using up to 60% fewer tokens. MAI-Thinking-1, a 35B-active MoE with a...
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