Form factor
- Liminal AI
- Agent harness (TUI + web)
- Windsurf
- Dedicated IDE
Updated 2026-06-02
Liminal vs Windsurf (2026)
Windsurf is an AI IDE with flows. Liminal is a portable agent harness — terminal or web — with any LLM and full tool visibility.
Vendor stack
- Liminal AI
- Bring your own API keys
- Windsurf
- Codeium / bundled stack
License
- Liminal AI
- FSL-1.1-MIT
- Windsurf
- Proprietary
Summary
Choose Windsurf if you want an all-in-one IDE experience from Codeium.
Choose Liminal if you want an agent you own, extend, and run against any provider.
FAQ
Windsurf FAQ
Is Liminal like Windsurf?
Both help you code with AI, but Liminal is not an IDE — it's an agent that works alongside your editor.