Windsurf, the popular vibrating coding startup that is that it is As reported, having been acquired by OpenaiAnthrope says, he significantly reduced his access to his Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI models.
The Windsurf CEO, Varun Mohan, said in a Publish in x On Tuesday that anthropic cool windsurf little notification for this change, and the startup now has to find other third -party computing suppliers to execute several or most popular anthrope models on its platform.
“We have a very clear bone for anthropic that this is not our desire: we wanted to pay them for all the capacity,” said Mohan in X. “We are disappointed by this decision and brief notice.”
In BlogWindsurf said it has some capacity with third -party inferences suppliers, but not enough, so this change can create short -term availability problems for Windsurf users who try to access Claude.
The decision occurs only a few weeks after Anthrope seemed to pass on the doors of Windsurf. Claude 4 launchThe new family of the company’s models, which survey the leading performance of the industry in software engineering tasks.
In Launch dayWindsurf said he did not receive direct access from Anthrope to run Claude 4 on his platform, and has not yet done so. This forced the company to trust an alternative solution that is more exensive and complicated for developers to access Claude 4. Meanwhile, other popular AI coding tools, including Anysphere’s Cursor, Cognition’s Devin and the launch of Copil Github of Accosoft.
The Coding sector assisted by AI, also knows as vibos coding, has heated in recent months. According to Openai reports Closed in an agreement to acquire Windsurf in April. At the same time, the anthropic models of AI are one of the favorites among developers have invested more in their own AI coding applications. In February, Anthrope launched its own AI coding application, Claude codeAnd in May, the startup held its first code with the Claude developer conference.
“We are prioritizing the ability of sustainable associations that allow us to serve the broader developer community in cash,” said Anthrope Steve Mnich spokesman in an email to TechCrunch on Tuesday, pointing out that it is still possible to access. “Developers can also access Claude through our direct integration of API, our ecosystem of partners and other development tools.”
Windsurf has grown quickly this year, arriving $ 100 million Arrit in AprilIn an attempt to catch up with the most popular AI coding tools, such as Cursor and Github Copilot. However, Windsurf’s limited access to Anthrope models may be stunning its growth.
Several Windsurf users who talked to Techcrunch were frustrated by the lack of direct access to the best Coding models of Anthrope.
Ronald Mannak, a starting founder who specializes in Apple’s programming language, Swift, told TechCrunch that Claude 4 represented a significant leap in the capacities for his workloads. While Mannak has been a Windsurf customer since the late 2024, he has changed cursor in recent weeks so he can vibrate the code more easily with Claude 4.
As a short -term solution to admit Claude 4, Windsurf allows users to connect their anthropic API keys to their Windsurf accounts. However, developers have noticed that this “bringing their own key” solution is more exensive and complicated than if Windsurf provides models itself.
When it comes to Vibe encoders, optionality is the name of the game. Every few months, Operai, Google and Anthrope launch new AI models that seem to overcome the industry in coding tasks. Because of that, it benefits the new Vibe coding companies to admit AI models of all leading developers.
Windsurf spokesman Payal Patel tells Techcrunch by email that the company has always believed to provide optional for users. In this case, it seems that Anthrope has made it a little more challenging.
