AI code completion and chat assistant that powers Windsurf and offers a free forever tier for individual developers.
What is Codeium?#
Codeium is the AI code assistant from the team behind Windsurf. It runs as an IDE extension across VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, Vim, Eclipse, and many others, offering free-forever inline autocompletion, chat, and refactoring for individual developers. Paid Teams and Enterprise plans add SSO, audit, and self-hosted deployment for regulated orgs.
What can Codeium do?#
- 01
Cascade memories
Remembers important facts about your codebase and workflow.
- 02
Project rules
Set custom coding standards and patterns per project.
- 03
Lint auto-fix
Detects and fixes lint errors Cascade generates.
- 04
MCP support
One-click setup to connect external tools and services.
- 05
Drag-and-drop images
Drop images into Cascade to prototype designs instantly.
- 06
Terminal command
Invoke terminal via Cmd+I without leaving the editor.
- 07
Continue my work
Tracks prior actions so Cascade can resume where you stopped.
- 08
Turbo mode
Allows Cascade to auto-execute terminal commands.
Use Cases#
- Individual developers — Let Cascade remember project rules and auto-fix lint errors so coding flow stays unbroken.
- Engineering teams — Share coding standards and MCP tool setups across teammates for consistent AI-assisted work.
- Designers prototyping with code — Drop a UI mock into Cascade and have the editor scaffold the matching layout.
Quick facts about Codeium#
- Pricing
- Free$0/moTeams$12/moEnterpriseContact salesas of Apr 18, 2026View official pricing
- Platforms
- ide-plugin·macOS·Windows·Linux
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