Cursor
AI-first code editor
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About
Cursor is an AI-first code editor forked from VS Code, offering deep AI integration with features like agent mode, codebase-aware chat, and multi-file edits. It supports multiple frontier models and is built for developers who want AI deeply embedded in their workflow.
Best for: Engineering teams who want a VS Code-compatible editor with AI agents and codebase awareness.
Pricing
Hobby
- Monthly
- Free
- Annual /mo
- Free
- Billing
- flat
- Notes
- Limited Agent requests; limited Tab completions; no credit card · Free tier
Pro
- Monthly
- $20
- Annual /mo
- $16
- Billing
- flat
- Notes
- Unlimited Tab completions; $20 API agent usage; Background Agents · 20% off annual
Pro+
- Monthly
- $60
- Annual /mo
- $48
- Billing
- flat
- Notes
- 3x Pro credits; unlimited Tab completions; Background Agents · 20% off annual
Ultra
- Monthly
- $200
- Annual /mo
- $160
- Billing
- flat
- Notes
- 20x Pro usage; priority access; Background Agents · 20% off annual
Teams
min 3 seats- Monthly
- $40
- Annual /mo
- $32
- Billing
- per_user
- Notes
- Centralised admin; privacy mode; SSO · Min 3 seats
Enterprise
- Monthly
- n/a
- Annual /mo
- n/a
- Billing
- per_user
- Notes
- Custom security; SSO/SCIM; dedicated support · Contact sales
| Tier | Monthly | Annual /mo | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby | Free | Free | flat | Limited Agent requests; limited Tab completions; no credit card · Free tier |
| Pro | $20 | $16 | flat | Unlimited Tab completions; $20 API agent usage; Background Agents · 20% off annual |
| Pro+ | $60 | $48 | flat | 3x Pro credits; unlimited Tab completions; Background Agents · 20% off annual |
| Ultra | $200 | $160 | flat | 20x Pro usage; priority access; Background Agents · 20% off annual |
| Teamsmin 3 seats | $40 | $32 | per_user | Centralised admin; privacy mode; SSO · Min 3 seats |
| Enterprise | n/a | n/a | per_user | Custom security; SSO/SCIM; dedicated support · Contact sales |
Key features
- Agent mode for autonomous coding
- codebase-wide context and chat
- multi-file edits with diffs
- tab autocomplete
- bring-your-own-key for major LLMs
Integrations
Trust & compliance
- Stage range
- MVP → Growth
- Founded
- 2022
- Status
- active
- SOC 2
- yes
- GDPR
- yes
- Data residency
- customer_choice
- External rating
- 4.7 on G2 (380 reviews)
- Last verified
- Jun 2026
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Aaron Levie
Co-founder & CEO
Levie uses Cursor in his prototyping rotation and called it part of the canonical coding-agent architecture in a recent X post grouping Claude Code, Devin, Codex, Factory, Cursor and Replit. In the Every interview about Box's AI-first strategy he singled out Cursor's CLI alongside Claude Code as table-stakes infrastructure for shipping today. He frames Cursor as a sibling of Claude Code in the coding-agent stack rather than a competitor.
Alex Albert
Head of Claude Relations
Albert has posted Cursor-and-Claude integration walkthroughs and demos on X, framing Cursor as one of the canonical IDE-side environments where developers run Claude. His examples treat Cursor as a partner surface for Claude rather than a competitive coding agent.
Amjad Masad
Founder & CEO
Masad has discussed Cursor in interviews and on X as the closest comparable in the AI coding agent space, including in his TechCrunch coverage about the Cursor deal and the production-isolation differentiation. He treats Cursor as a serious competitor in the IDE-side coding agent category, while pointing out where Replit's vertical-integration positioning differs.
Andrej Karpathy
Founder; AI educator
Karpathy publicly switched from GitHub Copilot to Cursor with Sonnet 3.5, posting that the move was 'a net win' and that 'most of my programming is now writing English'. He coined the term 'vibe coding' for an LLM-driven workflow where 'you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists', citing Cursor Composer with Sonnet as the tooling that makes it possible. By early 2026 he reported 80% agent coding versus 20% manual edits, having flipped from the inverse ratio just months earlier.
Corbin Brown
Founder; Creator
Brown teaches Cursor as a baseline AI code editor in his vibe-coding tutorials. His March 2025 walkthrough pairs Cursor with Lovable, Windsurf and Claude Code, demonstrating where Cursor fits in a multi-tool workflow. By his January 2026 video he's moved past Cursor toward Claude Code, but he's still recommending Cursor for builders who want an inline AI editor before going terminal-first.
Dan Shipper
Co-founder & CEO
Shipper has interviewed the Cursor team and Nat Eliason about Cursor best practices on AI & I, and documents his own Cursor workflow in long-form essays at Every. The Eliason episode covered 'how coding with AI is creating new behaviors in programming' as a central thesis. Cursor is consistently named in his AI engineering coverage as the inline-editor option that matters.
Founders who use Cursor
Operators who publicly include Cursor in their AI stack.