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Amazon Q vs Windsurf comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 17, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Q
Ranking in AI Code Assistants
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
2.4
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Windsurf
Ranking in AI Code Assistants
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
2.6
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
IDE (4th)
 

Featured Reviews

Jayesh Patil - PeerSpot reviewer
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
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.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Computer Software Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Retailer
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise12
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon Q?
It's very hard for me to comment because I've just been using it for three to five months, but what I could say is if they could somehow generate or collaborate with OpenAI, that would be a very bi...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Q?
I'm using Amazon Q developer section and generative AI, and mostly I'm using AWS as my primary day-to-day tool. I just got certified two to three months prior, and I've been using Amazon Q since th...
What advice do you have for others considering Amazon Q?
I haven't gone for the pro pricing, but I'm still using the free version of Amazon Q and it really works for me. If I'm in a work environment, I think I need to update to a pro version, but the pro...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Windsurf?
I would rate it two out of 10 for cost. It is very cheap compared to other tools in the market because 80% of the time, we are happy with their free model capabilities. Only 20% of the time do we g...
What needs improvement with Windsurf?
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 c...
What is your primary use case for Windsurf?
I have been using Windsurf for quite a long time, approximately four to five months. In my prior company, Windsurf was used, and in my new company, we also implemented Windsurf. For my personal use...
 

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