r/windsurf

How can it be possible that in the day second my weekly quota has finished?

I reached the end of the weekly quota in the second day? How can this be possible? Why weekly quota is so low? I have 4 days left and with full daily quotas, but weekly quota is 0? I can't understand the logic

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u/Ggozalov — 9 hours ago

Windsurf please stop🥹

Its been 3 months without using your service, even free ones i don’t use them,

My account’s subscription is inactive which is enough for you to stop charging my card! Then why sneaking and try to take my money everytime?

Plus am unable to delete my account.

This is not okay, wish i can do something to it but i can’t 😒

u/eddyGi — 12 hours ago

Cursor’s SpaceX deal is the final nail in the coffin for Windsurf. 🚀💀

If that company survives 2026, I'll buy random person Windsurf's subscription for 3 months.

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u/Old_Ambassador_5828 — 22 hours ago

2 subscriptions

I just got a windsurf subscription from my job after I got one myself a few weeks ago. Can I use both on the same device? When one is depleted is it possible to switch to the other one? I have both personal and job related projects on my Mac.

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u/Stefa93 — 14 hours ago

Daily quota was reached, next day I prompt "continue" and quota hits 0% immediately

Hey, has anyone experienced this? Sorry, the post-title is misleading, it is at 0%, but acts as if I hit 100%.

I reached the quota in the middle of a prompt. Had the 4.6 Opus model do some heavy lifting. In the middle of its work, the quota limit was reached. I waited a day, my daily limit was back at 0% and weekly was at 61%. When I type "continue" in the same chat, I still get the "Your included usage quota is exhausted. Purchase extra usage to continue using premium models. Quota resets 26 Apr, 10:00 CEST." Error.

This new system annoys me so much. I get that this was not sustainable, but I hate the rug pulling that is going on everywhere.

u/goldxstein — 14 hours ago

Windsurf happily took my $20 renewal yesterday, then told me I can't use it for 4 days.

I need to warn anyone thinking about upgrading to Windsurf's paid tier. I just got completely scammed out of my subscription days due to their absurd quota system.

My subscription renewed on the 22nd. I paid my $20. But because I hit my weekly usage limit at the very end of my last billing cycle, I am completely locked out of using the AI chat in my new billing cycle. The weekly usage resets on the 26th.

So I paid for a full subscription, but I am losing 4 days of it where the app is essentially a brick. When you do the math, they aren't even giving you a full month of usage. You are paying $20 for about 3 weeks of actual access.

This is incredibly frustrating. I'm canceling my sub and moving back to Cursor.
Just a heads up to anyone else: their billing is designed to rip you off.

u/Loud_Squirrel9450 — 2 hours ago

WHAT THE HECK IS RELATIVE COST?

I see some new UI update. I do not get what the heck is happening here. How is it different from $,$$,$$$ as mentioned previously?

Also, is there a better way to put it such a way that users can know their costs transparently?

Even if it is token cost - let us know how much are we paying for it? What percentage of daily quota is taken away for every million token.

I understand it is not the same because of cached tokens etc. But letting us know at least some indication would have been very helpful

u/AssociationSure6273 — 2 days ago

Did windsurf free Kimi 2.6 gives us the best deal out there ?

I was wondering if you guys can agree on that subject. Since Windsurf switched their pricing model and gave us Kimi 2.5 for free. We were all annoyed and angry because all the value that windsurf provide was a lot compare to our subscription. But now that kimi 2.6 is out and feels really close to Opus 4.6, we basically have unlimited usage of kimi for 10 USD (grandfater) or 20 USD.

Isn’t it great ?

I mean I am quite happt about kimi, it’s faster than claude sonnet or opus and it does the job.

More capability is always nice but to do my daily dev work, it’s perfect !

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u/TheGreatDmitri — 2 days ago
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This is plain extortion

"You can get a full refund but mind that if you do you cannot sign up anymore"

What. The. Fuck. MS.

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u/ChomsGP — 3 days ago

Does anyone agree that the free tier is very generous?

For the whole day I did not hit my daily limit once! I was using the adaptive model which was mainly just using Kimi K2.6. tbh this was supposing as majority of the coding AI I saw was either fully paid or very very limited free tier (at least for the good big mainstream AI)

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u/Wooden_Fig6584 — 2 days ago

Best AI stack for $20/month?

I’m trying to optimize my AI setup on a $20/month budget, and I’d really appreciate some advice from people who’ve already tested different tools.

Here’s my current situation:

  • I have a student account on Windsurf, so I can get Pro for $10/month
  • I’m interested in trying Minimal 2.7 (looks promising) Starter for $10/month
  • But the main one I’m considering is Claude Pro

My use cases:

  • Building automations
  • Creating interactive prototypes
  • Working with RAG agents

What’s holding me back from Claude Pro:

  • The design mode (Claude Design) seems really powerful, but I’ve read sessions are short and limited (weekly?)
  • Regular coding usage seems to hit rate limits pretty quickly
  • Still, the quality of outputs looks better than most alternatives

So I’m trying to figure out the best combo within $20:

  • Windsurf Pro + Minimax?
  • Claude Pro alone?
  • Or maybe skip Claude and combine other tools?

If you were in my position, how would you spend the $20?

Looking for real-world experiences, especially if you’re doing similar things (automation, prototyping, RAG, etc.)

Thanks in advance

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u/Papstark — 3 days ago

Unable to Login

Hi,

Is anyone else having trouble logging in? When I enter my email address and click "Log In," I get the following error: "Unable to determine login method. Please try again or use a different sign-in option."

And you have to be logged in to contact support...

Best regards,

Leon

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u/Powerful_Surprise_62 — 3 days ago

I need a reasonable way to link consumption to prompt and model. What is the best way to get support for this?

TL;DR - How do I contact support outside of Discord? We can't access Discord here. Does anyone know where I can get feed/prompt-based support? I need a reasonable way to link prompt, model and consumption. I had just verified my day, week, and credits. I asked it to write 434 lines in a text file; the model was "adaptive".

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Today I had an interesting experience: Windsurf used up all my daily and weekly allowances, plus all the credits I had (about $12) for this prompt:

With one fail promt and one successful one:

> "Please rewrite progress.txt with the correct plan. DO NOT code anything yet." [The plan was pasted in the previous prompt, and I asked their opinion on translating it into a series of logical steps that an intern could follow]

Winsurf tried to use a python script, but it got stuck. I stopped it and told it:

> "You are overcomplicating this. You can append to progress.txt in sections using cat; you do not need to overcomplicate the plan with Python. "

I want to clarify that the plan was already done, and all it needed was to append the correct plan, which was 434 lines of text. While I worked on something else:

PHASE 1: Create migrations + models

PHASE 2: Run migrations in the container, verify tables exist

PHASE 3: Fix VerifyDashboardPerimeter.php (the wall — must come before auth changes)

PHASE 4: Fix DashboardAuthController@sendOtp + verifyOtp

PHASE 5: Add collaborator methods + logActivity helper to DashboardController

PHASE 6: Add routes to web.php

PHASE 7: Update DashboardController@index query to eager-load user + collaborators

PHASE 8: Build Blade UI panel

It was a 434-line plan; there was nothing

The selected model was "Adaptive".

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I had already consumed 33% of my weekly allowance, and about 20% of it, and I had 12 USD in credit. Fortunately, I had changed the company card for my own since it is becoming increasingly difficult to explain to my partners how to predict consumption on Widsurf after the past month's changes.

To be fair, I could have done this myself in 15 minutes, but I did not because I was busy and thought it was pretty straightforward. I have no one to blame but myself

We have been reducing the use of Windsurf since it has become harder to predict costs. But we use it fairly regularly for documentation edit wizards and things like that.

I want to contact support to get an explanation of the logic used to consume the daily, weekly, and any remaining credit so I can estimate and project future consumption. Especially considering how often it gets stuck in loops lately.

Does anyone know where I can get feed/prompt-based support to link the equation, model and consumption?

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u/yago1980 — 2 days ago

Unable to use available balance

Hello,

https://preview.redd.it/p62g3i5esjwg1.png?width=999&format=png&auto=webp&s=7f2eb1f8d875b6a9bca53fb80073dcd1625258b4

Windsurf IDE:

https://preview.redd.it/h7wbordgsjwg1.png?width=666&format=png&auto=webp&s=339dd632f50d3ea4f9ac13b8eb838d166e0ced07

Can I use the remaining balance now, or what needs to happen first? This is the second day in a row that I've been interrupted after 20 minutes. The error is also a bit irritating to me, but according to Reddit, it indicates that the limits have been reached.

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u/HI-HIHI-HOHO — 2 days ago

Windsurf what is going on?

Firstly you changed my plan to the 22nd because you gave everyone the one week grace, then went ahead to deduct the direct debit on the 17th and then reverse the plan back to the 18th again and no message, no email nothing, this leaves a really bad taste in the mouth.

Secondly while coding, half way through the session, stops me, saying i have reached a limit on the model, but as you can see I only have only used 27% daily and 16% of my weekly, is their now a hidden quota for various models as well. This was an amazing platform before, how did it descend into this farce.

I have watched from the sidelines hoping for things to subside but it just feels like, the heart has been ripped out of the platform and there is just not much left and it is really sad to watch. Please can any one from windsurf explain my problem or anyone else!

u/Ok-Understanding8432 — 3 days ago

Free SWE 1.6 constantly fails – Invalid argument (internal error)

Hi,

I'm getting persistent errors with the free SWE 1.6 model. The Fast model works fine.

Every request to SWE 1.6 returns: Invalid argument: an internal error occurred (error ID: [id...])

Tried restarting and reinstalling — no luck. Is this a known issue?
MacOS, paid user

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u/Which_Mode4970 — 2 days ago

Discrepancy between model drop down and actual model

In Windsurf 2.0.61 if I select "Claude Opus 4.7 medium" and ask the prompt "Tell me your model name". It responds with "I'm Claude Sonnet 4.5".

If I select "GPT 5.4 Low Thinking" it replies with "Cascade".

Is this expected? The discrepancy with Claude seems concerning.

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u/ElectricalIntern4070 — 3 days ago