Cursor
AI-first code editor built on VS Code.
Watch the demoOfficial walkthroughCursor is AI-first code editor built on VS Code. Freemium, with paid plans from $20/mo.
About Cursor
Cursor is an AI-first code editor built as a fork of VS Code with deep model integration throughout the IDE. Its main features include Tab, a powerful next-edit predictor that suggests multi-line and multi-file changes, Chat for asking questions about a codebase with full project context, Composer and Agent modes that can plan and execute multi-file changes across a repo, and Background Agents that run longer tasks in the cloud. Cursor uses a mix of frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google, plus its own Cursor Tab model, and supports MCP servers, custom rules and per-project context. The editor is widely adopted by software engineers, hobbyists and enterprises, and is sold on Hobby, Pro, Business and Enterprise plans with seat-based pricing.
Cursor pros and cons
Hand-derived from the catalog data, strengths and trade-offs to weigh before signing up.
- Free tier available; paid plans from $20/mo
- Includes an autonomous AI agent for multi-step tasks
- Hand-picked as an editor's choice in its category
- Composer agent
- Tab completion
- Codebase chat
- Competition is strong in this space, see Windsurf and Codeium for comparison
4 plans from Cursor
Pulled from Cursor’s public pricing page. Prices may change, verify on the vendor’s site before purchasing.
Hobby
Free starter plan
- No credit card required
- Limited Agent requests
- Limited Tab completions
Individual
Most popular for solo devs
- Extended Agent limits
- Frontier model access
- MCPs, skills, hooks
- Cloud agents
Teams
For dev teams
- Cloud agents with team context
- Team-wide rules and skills
- Security review agent
- SAML/OIDC SSO
Enterprise
For larger orgs
- Pooled usage
- Invoice billing
- SCIM seat management
- Granular admin controls
Cursor vs Code Editors & Completion
Side-by-side with the top 3 other code editors & completion in this category.
| Picked from the top tools in code editors & completion | AI-first code editor built on VS Code. | Agentic IDE from Codeium with the Cascade agent. | Free AI code completion across 70+ editors. | Privacy-first AI code assistant for enterprise. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| STARTS AT | $20/mo | $15/mo | Free | $9/mo |
| PRICING | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| AI AGENT | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| EDITOR'S PICK | Yes | No | No | No |
| KEY FEATURES | Composer agent, Tab completion, Codebase chat | Cascade agent, Inline edits, Codebase awareness | 70+ IDEs, 40+ languages, Chat | Self-hosted, Permissive training data, Code review |
| BEST FOR | Pair programming, Refactoring, Code generation | Agentic coding, Refactoring, Codebase exploration | Code completion, Chat, Code search | Enterprise dev, Self-hosted AI, Code completion |
| WORKS WITH | #editor#ide#copilot | #editor#ide#agent | #autocomplete#free#enterprise | #enterprise#privacy#autocomplete |
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