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DeepSeek V4
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DeepSeek's official domain and foundation-model line; major AI lab.
👁 430M/mo
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Windsurf Editor
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AI-powered code editor with agentic workflows for developers.
👁 3.3M/mo
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Basic (Free): $0
Pro: $139 per month (monthly billing) or $99 per month (annual billing)
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Core features
- ✦General large language models (LLM)
- ✦Code generation models
- ✦Mixture of Experts (MoE) models
- ✦API access to models
- ✦Context Caching
- ✦Bot Detection
- ✦Fraud Protection
- ✦Account Defense
- ✦Private Learning AI
- ✦Risk Scoring
- ✦Passive (No-CAPTCHA) Mode
- ✦APT Mitigation Features
- ✦Enterprise SLAs
- ✦Multi-User Dashboard, SAML SSO
- ✦Advanced Analytics & Reporting APIs
- ✦Enhanced Context Engineering for deep codebase analysis and adaptive memory
- ✦Intelligent Agents for autonomous planning, coding, and testing
- ✦Spec-Driven Development for clarifying requirements and automating execution
- ✦Intelligent Codebase Search and Advanced Repository Insight
- ✦Context-aware code completions and next-edit suggestions
- ✦Support for leading AI models (Claude, GPT, Gemini)
- ✦AI-powered code completion and suggestions
- ✦Automated lint fixing
- ✦Cascade agent for advanced coding assistance
- ✦Integrated app building and deployment
- ✦MCP server support for custom tools
- ✦Terminal command integration
- ✦Memory of codebase structure and workflow
Use cases
- →Chatbots and conversational AI
- →Code completion and generation
- →Reasoning and problem-solving
- →Text generation and summarization
- →Mathematical problem solving
- →Search
- →Writing
- →Reading
- →Protecting e-commerce platforms from purchase fraud and card testing.
- →Securing financial institutions against account takeover and transaction fraud.
- →Preventing fake registrations and account abuse on technology platforms.
- →Mitigating in-game abuse and purchase fraud in online gaming.
- →Ensuring secure access to e-government services while maintaining user privacy.
- →Blocking activation fraud for telecommunications providers.
- →Protecting privacy-focused messaging and VPN services from platform abuse.
- →Delegating complex software development tasks to AI agents for autonomous completion.
- →Performing multi-file code edits and refactoring through natural language chat.
- →Gaining deep architectural understanding of a codebase to resolve issues with precision.
- →Generating unit tests, code explanations, and uncovering codebase architecture.
- →Systematically tackling software development tasks from planning to testing.
- →Accelerating software development by automating repetitive tasks
- →Reducing onboarding time for new developers
- →Improving code quality and reducing tech debt
- →Streamlining the app building and deployment process
- →Enhancing developer productivity by keeping them in a state of flow
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