Cursor

VS Code rebuilt around a model that can see your whole repository.

About Cursor

Cursor is a code editor with a model wired into the editing loop rather than bolted on beside it. Its named surfaces are Tab, Agent, Composer, Bugbot, the Cursor CLI, cloud agents and Automations.

Tab is the part you touch most. It predicts multi-line edits, missing import statements, the next place in a file you are likely to edit, and edits that span more than one file. A suggestion is accepted with the Tab key and dismissed with Escape or by carrying on typing, and it can be taken word by word with a modifier and the right arrow key when only part of it is right. Tab can be snoozed for a chosen duration, disabled globally, or disabled for specific file extensions.

Agent work also happens outside the editor. Cloud agents run in parallel across multiple repositories. Bugbot reviews pull requests inside GitHub. Agents can be summoned in a Slack channel with a mention and reply with pull request links. Automations run agents on a schedule or from a trigger, for jobs such as fixing a CI failure.

The Hobby plan is free and takes no credit card. Pro is $20 per month, Pro Plus $60 and Ultra $200, with Pro Plus carrying three times the agent limits of Pro and Ultra twenty times. Teams Standard seats are $40 per user per month and Teams Premium $120, with Premium at five times the agent limits of Standard. Enterprise is quoted by sales, pools usage across the organisation and can be billed by invoice or purchase order. India has a Start plan at 649 INR per month covering Cursor's own models. Paid plans keep two separate usage pools, one for Cursor's own models and one for third-party models charged at that model's API price, and both reset monthly. Pro, Pro Plus and Ultra include unlimited tab completions.

Enterprise administration is granular. Admins can allowlist or blocklist specific repositories, models and MCP servers, and set cost controls per team and per user. SAML single sign-on works with Okta, Azure AD and Google Workspace, SCIM handles user provisioning and seat management, and an API reports how much code was written by AI. Turning on Privacy Mode across an organisation stops customer code being used for model training.

Cursor runs on AWS and does not offer an on-premises deployment. It holds SOC 2 Type II certification, runs annual penetration testing, encrypts data at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS 1.2 or higher, and states that it holds zero data retention agreements with all of its LLM providers.

Key features

Predicts multi-line edits, missing imports, the next edit location and cross-file edits with Tab.
Accepts a suggestion with the Tab key, or word by word with a modifier and the right arrow.
Snoozes Tab for a set period, or disables it globally or for chosen file extensions.
Runs cloud agents in parallel across multiple repositories.
Reviews pull requests inside GitHub with Bugbot.
Starts agents from a Slack mention and returns pull request links to the channel.
Runs agents on a schedule or from a trigger with Automations, including fixing CI failures.
Encrypts data at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS 1.2 or higher.
Allowlists or blocks specific repositories, models and MCP servers for an enterprise team.
Sets cost controls per team and per user, with audit logs and SCIM seat management.
Tracks AI-written code through an API on the Enterprise plan.
Stops customer code reaching model training when Privacy Mode is on across an organisation.

What people use it for

Fixing a failing CI build automatically on a schedule instead of at the start of the day.
Kicking off a change from Slack and getting the pull request link back without opening the editor.
Getting a first review pass on every pull request before a human reviewer reads it.
Making a change that spans several repositories by running agents on them in parallel.
Rolling out an AI editor to a team that needs SAML single sign-on and audit logs.
Capping how much each developer can spend on models within a fixed team budget.

Key facts about Cursor
Category	Developer tools
Pricing	Freemium
Free tier	Yes
Platforms	macOS, Windows, Linux
Underlying models	GPT-5, Claude Opus 4.5, Gemini
API	No public API
Open source	No, built on open-source VS Code
Upvotes	15
Listed	22 August 2026

Pricing

Prices are read from the vendor's own pricing page and dated. If one is wrong, report it.

Hobby

Free

2,000 completions, 50 slow requests

Pro

$20/mo

500 fast requests, unlimited slow

Business

$40/user/mo

Privacy mode enforced, SSO, admin

Pros and cons

What works

Edits land as diffs you review, not as silent rewrites
Imports VS Code extensions and keybindings unchanged
Privacy mode is a real switch, not a policy page

What does not

The $20 tier's fast-request quota is easy to exhaust in a heavy day
Large monorepos slow indexing noticeably
Diverges from upstream VS Code, so some extensions lag

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