How many companies use Windsurf?
As of October 2026, 123 companies show public evidence of using Windsurf across the 1,789,066 company domains runsonwhat tracks. That makes Windsurf the 36th most used of the 56 Dev Tools tools with confirmed customers, behind Make (147). The number is a lower bound: a company counts only when a public record, such as a DNS entry or Windsurf's code on its website, shows the tool in use.
Which companies use Windsurf?
Companies that use Windsurf include Spotify, OneTrust, People, AT&T and Qualtrics, according to runsonwhat's public-record scans (October 2026). The biggest industries among Windsurf customers are software (32%) and financial services (15%). The full list of 123 companies can be filtered by industry, company size and country on runsonwhat's Windsurf page.
What industries use Windsurf the most?
The industries with the most Windsurf customers are software (32%), financial services (15%) and IT services (11%), based on the 75 companies with a known industry. Relative to all companies runsonwhat tracks, Windsurf stands out most in software (5.4× the average rate).
Is Windsurf more popular with startups or large companies?
Windsurf is used mostly by mid-size companies: of the 77 companies with a known size, 23% have up to 50 employees, 48% have 51 to 1,000 and 29% have more than 1,000.
Which countries use Windsurf the most?
Most Windsurf customers runsonwhat has found are based in the United States (65%), the United Kingdom (5.1%) and Canada (4.0%), out of 99 companies with a known country. Outside the United States, the biggest markets are the United Kingdom and Canada.
Windsurf vs Atlassian: which is more widely used?
Atlassian is more widely used: 64,103 companies show public evidence of Atlassian, against 123 for Windsurf (521× as many), according to runsonwhat (October 2026). 96 companies run both, which is 78% of Windsurf's customers.
What are the most popular alternatives to Windsurf?
By the number of companies using them, the most used Dev Tools tools other than Windsurf are Atlassian (64,103), Cursor (6,034), TeamViewer (4,314) and Docker (2,958), according to runsonwhat (October 2026). Not every tool in a category does the same job, so check each one's page; runsonwhat ranks all Dev Tools tools at https://www.runsonwhat.com/tools/developer-tools.
What other tools do Windsurf customers use?
Windsurf customers use Digioh, Neat and Integral Ad Science far more often than the average company. For example, 14% of Windsurf customers also run Digioh, 188× the rate among all companies runsonwhat tracks, and 4.1% run Neat.
How does runsonwhat know a company uses Windsurf?
runsonwhat reads public records only. For Windsurf, that means a domain-verification record for Windsurf in the company's DNS or Windsurf on the company's own subprocessor list. A company is listed only when one of these direct records is present, and each match keeps the record it came from. DNS is rechecked weekly and websites about monthly.
DigiohMarketing188×more likely
NeatCollaboration95×more likely
Integral Ad ScienceAds & Pixels71×more likely
ParallelsDev Tools61×more likely
HackerOneSecurity & Compliance58×more likely
Cisco IntersightDev Tools55×more likely
AgariSecurity & Compliance49×more likely
MongoDB AtlasBackend & Database48×more likely
CursorDev Tools43×more likely
DockerDev Tools41×more likely
PendoAnalytics41×more likely
SlackCollaboration24×more likely