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Google Gemini AI vs Windsurf comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 4, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Google Gemini AI
Ranking in AI Code Assistants
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
AI Writing Tools (1st), Large Language Models (LLMs) (1st), AI Proofreading Tools (1st)
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)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the AI Code Assistants category, the mindshare of Google Gemini AI is 6.1%, up from 2.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Windsurf is 12.1%, down from 39.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Luís Silva - PeerSpot reviewer
Tool proves competitive with cost-effectiveness and speed while benefiting decision-making and integration capabilities, but shows room for enhancing creativity and handling large data contextually
There is another benefit in that Google Gemini is highly competitive from a cost perspective. The cost per token is very competitive. It's not the best - the Chinese models such as DeepSeek are better, but I can't use them. From a cost perspective, between European and United States options, Google Gemini is very competitive. It's not only its cost, it's also very performing. The time it takes to process the prompts and context information is very fast. It's one of the fastest models in the market. That's another advantage. There are other models which are also very good in quality but not as fast, such as Anthropic Claude. Google Gemini currently has a very good balance. The AI capabilities of Google Gemini are a multi-modal LLM which allows me to pass documents, images, and texts in the same prompt. Being multi-modal makes my life easier. I don't have to translate information before I can work with it. Google provides free tools to test scenarios, which speeds up development and reduces costs. It's a very fast and accurate model with quality responses.
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
11%
University
11%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Retailer
7%
 

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Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Gemini?
If ten is expensive and one is free, I would rate it a three or four.
What needs improvement with Google Gemini?
Gemini can be improved in several ways. The ChatGPT platform is much more simple for getting started, whereas Gemini's initial setup is more difficult, particularly when using other services such a...
What is your primary use case for Google Gemini?
We have implemented real-time data streaming and analysis tools in Gemini. We have used them to develop complicated systems such as a tender valuation system and a vision tool to classify images on...
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