Is Windsurf Down?

Quickest ways to check the current status of windsurf.com plus recent known issues and working alternatives if it's out.

Last editorial review: 2026-05-01

How to check right now

Step 1 -- Load the site
Open windsurf.com→

The simplest check. If it loads and you can log in, the tool is up for you.

Step 2 -- Crowdsourced reports
DownDetector: Windsurf→

User-reported outages aggregated across regions. Good signal for partial or regional outages.

Step 3 -- Live social
Search X for “Windsurfdown” →

Live tweets from other users. Fastest signal for a fresh outage -- often beats status pages by 10-20 minutes.

Step 4 -- Official status page
Find Windsurf's status page →

Most vendors publish a status page at status.[domain] or on Statuspage.io. Google-search to find the current URL.

Known issues we've tracked

SECURITY (2026-04-15): CVE-2026-30615 -- a prompt-injection vulnerability in Windsurf 1.9544.26 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on a victim system. Severity 8.0 (HIGH) per CISA-ADP scoring; NIST has not yet enriched the entry. Update past 1.9544.26 to a newer build. Caveat: NVD publicly notes 'this CVE record is not being prioritized for NVD enrichment efforts due to resource or other concerns,' so the canonical severity score comes from CISA-ADP rather than NIST -- but the underlying vulnerability is real and the recommendation to update is unchanged
2026-04-15•NVD (nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-30615), CISA-ADP
Windsurf Pro was raised from $15/mo to $20/mo in March 2026, and the entire credit system shifted from a monthly allocation to daily/weekly quotas. If your old monthly budget assumed evenly-distributable credits, the new quota cadence may surprise you in burst-usage weeks
2026-03•Windsurf pricing page
Windsurf 2.0 Agent Command Center is new as of 2026-04-15 -- expect early rough edges in multi-agent handoff and background-agent commit tracking over the next few weeks
2026-04•TestingCatalog, Cognition blog
Cascade sometimes enters loops where it repeatedly tries to fix the same error with the same approach -- long-standing issue that Agent Command Center may help surface but hasn't eliminated
2026-03•Reddit r/Windsurf
Extension compatibility issues with some VS Code extensions that work fine in Cursor persist through the 2.0 release
2026-02•GitHub Issues

Issues here are sourced from our editorial sweeps, not real-time telemetry. Newer issues may exist.

What to use if Windsurf is down

Top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives in the same category, ordered by our overall score.

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GitHub Copilot

8.3

AI code assistant that lives in your editor -- autocomplete on steroids. As of 2026-04-20 new signups for Pro/Pro+/Student are PAUSED. As of 2026-04-27 GitHub announced ALL plans transition to usage-based billing (AI Credits + token metering) effective 2026-06-01 -- code completions remain free, agent/chat usage now meters against monthly credit allotments matching the plan price

A

Cursor

8.3

AI-native code editor, now agent-first in Cursor 3 -- multi-workspace, cross-platform agents, and Composer 2 (Cursor's own 200+ tok/s coding model)

A

Codex (OpenAI)

8.3

OpenAI's cloud-based coding agent -- runs parallel tasks, proposes PRs, and lives inside ChatGPT

A

Google Antigravity

8.0

Google's agent-first AI IDE -- deploys up to 5 autonomous coding agents in parallel on a VS Code fork

A

Roblox Assistant

8.0

Roblox Studio's agentic AI that plans, builds, and playtests games. Planning Mode (2026-04-16) + Mesh Generation + Procedural Models brings 3D-native creation to 70M+ daily creators

About Windsurf

Tier B (7.5/10). Cognition's AI code editor -- Windsurf 2.0 (launched 2026-04-15) adds Agent Command Center, Spaces, and embedded Devin cloud agents. Directly competitive with Cursor 3

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