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Amazon Q vs Windsurf comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 19, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Q
Ranking in AI Code Assistants
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
3.7
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Windsurf
Ranking in AI Code Assistants
4th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.3
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
IDE (4th), AI Software Development (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the AI Code Assistants category, the mindshare of Amazon Q is 7.9%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Windsurf is 9.0%, down from 20.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Code Assistants Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Amazon Q7.9%
Windsurf9.0%
Other83.1%
AI Code Assistants
 

Featured Reviews

Jayesh Patil - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Software Engineer
Connectors and guardrails facilitate question-answer setups effectively
There isn't such an issue we have faced with Amazon Q regarding speed increasing. Syncing and indexing takes a lot of time, and they need to improve upon that. Remaining everything is good for us, and that is also acceptable as we can set it as a nightly job. Once it's done, it takes around one hour max for any number of documents. We were trying to address specific issues and challenges by implementing Amazon Q in our environment because currently, they don't provide any APIs directly. We find it difficult to integrate with our product. The second challenge is while connecting Jira, we need the ACLs to maintain our security, but it doesn't allow us to connect to Jira if our ACLs are on. We need to turn them off to connect to it. Even though we connected with the support team of AWS, they were not able to resolve our issue, so we were disappointed at that moment. As a part of improvement, we don't see any improvement areas for Amazon Q at present. We first need to test that we can integrate it with our product. We need the APIs before we can suggest improvements.
reviewer2748786 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founding BackEnd Engineer
Enhancing productivity with advanced code generation and low-cost accessibility
What they can do further and venture into next is to provide a CLI environment, similar to the command-line interface environment that Cursor offers. It allows for running a cursor agent from the command line to make changes, review pull requests, or access certain other capabilities. These capabilities are currently not in Windsurf. Windsurf focuses on the productivity and the ID/editor part. I would rather look for the inclusion of pull request reviews or a kind of a TRD or technical requirement general documentation generation, or system diagram generation directly from the codebase in Windsurf itself. These should be the next obvious features they launch for developers. In our team, there are certain people who use Windsurf regularly and appreciate using it. However, it is not a collaborative tool where someone is going to use the same tool and interact in the same IDE. Everyone does their local development, pushes it to different Git branches, someone reviews the PR, and then merges the branch. It is very localized in that sense.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The best feature Amazon Q offers is the code security scan, which actually depicts the threat assessment of the code or whether a particular code snippet can be utilized by attackers to find loopholes."
"Amazon Q understands natural language queries effectively and interacts robustly with company-specific data, making it simple to fine-tune with company-specific instructions, sources, and knowledge base."
"There is a lot of return on investment from using Amazon Q because the number of developers needed or the number of researchers needed, the number of automation people needed has been drastically reduced."
"The support team from Amazon provides comfort because previously we used to think and implement, which took considerable time, and now we can complete our projects and requirements in three months or two months."
"Amazon Q saved my time more than other products, such as GitHub Copilot, because it is conscious about particular AWS services."
"What I find best about Amazon Q is that I have used multiple AI tools such as Copilot and earlier Chat GPT, and I think that, apart from the other tools, Amazon Q has an edge because if I want to run any command, such as scanning my whole database and checking schemas, it can generate the command and ask for permission whether I want to execute it."
"Amazon Q has been very helpful in improving efficiency—when I started with the company, processing an item would take 30-40 minutes; now, within 10 minutes, tasks are completed and it has made the job easier and faster."
"The explanation and documentation capabilities are excellent."
"I have seen a return on investment with Windsurf because I have saved time and money and needed fewer resources since using it."
"As we're experimenting with different AI IDEs, Windsurf has positively impacted my organization by providing options."
"Windsurf has positively impacted my organization by increasing productivity, because during a one-week hackathon we were able to build a product from scratch that would have taken at least two to three weeks, making the time savings substantial."
"As we're experimenting with different AI IDEs, Windsurf has positively impacted my organization by providing options."
 

Cons

"Even though we connected with the support team of AWS, they were not able to resolve our issue, so we were disappointed at that moment."
"Sometimes feedback is needed immediately. It takes a bit of time because there is a workload."
"If I start with a prompt in one tab and then try to continue in another, it does not retain that context."
"The model is not able to give answers properly with the traffic it is facing, so it needs to be scaled more."
"If I start with a prompt in one tab and then try to continue in another, it does not retain that context."
"One most important improvement would be having deeper domain-specific intelligence for Amazon Q."
"While using Amazon Q, I faced some challenges, such as navigating the interface initially."
"I discovered that the application logs me out automatically after some time, which becomes problematic as I then lose access to my chat history."
"I chose 7 out of 10 because I've used Cursor as well, and sometimes I feel Cursor hallucinates less compared to Windsurf."
"Since using Windsurf, I notice more errors, but we deliver approximately twice as fast."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise13
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon Q?
While using Amazon Q, I faced some challenges, such as navigating the interface initially.
What is your primary use case for Amazon Q?
I have completed a project where the company required testing R&D on Kubernetes. I tested it locally by installing MiniKube, Kubernetes, and all the containers. I configured the Kubernetes MCB ...
What advice do you have for others considering Amazon Q?
I find Amazon Q easy to use, and I believe anyone can use it without needing extensive technical knowledge. I would definitely recommend Amazon Q to other people; it's a great tool. I find it quite...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Windsurf?
My experience with Windsurf's pricing, setup cost, and licensing was positive. I received a discount because I joined early, so the license cost or monthly rental of Windsurf has been reasonably pr...
What needs improvement with Windsurf?
I have no suggestions at the moment for how Windsurf can be improved. I would not add more about the needed improvements, even small things that could make my experience better.
What is your primary use case for Windsurf?
I have been using Windsurf off and on for the last year. My main use case for Windsurf is for software development. Currently, we're working on an API, and Windsurf will help us develop a particula...
 

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