Let's also talk about pricing.
In April 2025, windsurf has simplified their pricing model, which honestly used to be very, very
confusing.
Apart from this, they also announced a lot of updates to the free plan.
And trust me, it's all good news.
So let me briefly talk about the free plan, because this is something that interests a lot of people.
Now, first of all, apart from the two week pro trial that you get with a new account, you're also
going to get 25 credits per month.
So this means that you can send 25 messages to one of the models.
Now for some models, it can cost you a bit more than a prompt, and for some models it can cost you
significantly less.
The example here is gpt4 one from OpenAI, which you're going to get four prompts per credit.
So if you use only this model, you essentially have 100 prompts per month, which is at least I would
say decent With OpenAI acquiring wind surf, we will probably see even more preferential treatment for
OpenAI's models.
Apart from this, the free plan also gets access to all premium models, and in the past, that was
definitely not the case.
Apart from this, there's also an optional zero data retention for the free plan.
So let me briefly show you what that means and how it works for a lot of products.
The free plan obligates you to share some data, but windsurf has made this optional, so it is enabled
by default, but you can disable it.
I just want to briefly show you how you can do this.
So we're going to go here to your profile page and you're going to go to settings.
And in terms of privacy you're going to find here this privacy setting here.
And what you need to do is to disable telemetry.
So this actually needs to be enabled to be disabled.
It's a bit weird but this is how you can do it.
Anyway, going back to pricing, the last thing that I wanted to say about the free plan is that you
can also have unlimited Cascade base.
So Cascade Base is the not so great model that windsurf has.
You can use this for free.
So one strategy would be to use a premium model for complex stuff, and then to switch to Cascade Base
for like maybe smaller changes that it can do on its own, or at least to give it a bit more chances
to try it out.
So in this way, you have unlimited cascade base, and you combine it with your 25 prompts.
And actually you can get with a free plan to having a usable product.
There's also unlimited completions, which is also nice.
You get previews and you can do one app deployment per day.
Well, that's not a lot.
It's still decent and you can anyway do your deployments through other means as well.
So you don't really need to rely on that deployment approach.
I think one app deployment per day is not really that great if you want to do a few deployments.
But anyway, this is the free plan.
And then if you need more, you need to go to the Pro plan.
This one has 500 prompt credits per month or equivalent of 2000 prompt credits if you use the OpenAI
GPT for one model.
Apart from this, there's also another additional features, which is very nice this possibility of
buying credits.
So once you run out of prompt credits, you can buy additional ones without having to upgrade your plan.
Essentially this anyway for a single user.
Not another way to upgrade.
So I think that is nice.
More to the right.
We have plans for teams and for enterprise.
We're not going to go into them very deep.
The main idea is that if you're running a team or if you're a larger company, there are other things
that you should consider.
So definitely take a look at those plans to see if you find anything that works for you.
So this is all in terms of pricing.