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Last checked 5 October 2026

# Cursor: Pricing, Features & Alternatives (2026)

Cursor is your coding agent for building ambitious software.

## Overview

Cursor's homepage says agents turn ideas into code, run in parallel for hours or days, and also operate in the terminal, Slack, and GitHub pull-request review. It offers model choice across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, SpaceXAI, and Cursor models, plus cloud agents.

cursor.com

## Pricing

https://cursor.com/pricing lists Hobby as free with limited Agent requests and access to Composer, Individual at $20/mo, Teams at $40/user/mo, and Enterprise as custom. The page names Pro, Pro+, and Ultra under Individual but does not publish separate dollar prices for Pro+ or Ultra. Last checked 5 October 2026.

## Video walkthrough

Cursor now shows you demos, not diffs · Cursor

## Features

- Sold to run the job rather than wait for a prompt on every step. Keep a way to stop it before it reaches a customer, a candidate, or a filing.

- Integrations: Terminal, Slack, GitHub, MCP, Cloud agents.

- Not sold as one named foundation model on the pages we opened.

Autonomy: Autonomous. Team size: Solo, Small team, Mid-market.

## Pros

- Free tier available. Starting price: From $20/mo.

- Connects to Terminal, Slack, GitHub, MCP.

- Developers who want an IDE agent with a free Hobby plan and a $20 individual plan

## Cons

- Sold to operate the motion. Plan on supervising the first sends.

- We did not open a trust report for this product. Read the vendor's current security page before you send customer, candidate, or client data.

## What users say

Developers who stay with Cursor are usually buying the editor: inline edits and multi-file changes, rather than a terminal session.

On r/cursor, pay-as-you-go users say the usage charges pushed them to a Claude plan.

- “I switch from cursor pay as you go to Claude code max $100/mo.”Reddit · u/vamonosgeek

## Who it is for

Developers who want an IDE agent with a free Hobby plan and a $20 individual plan

## Alternatives

Other products that appear in the same categories.

- Augment CodeFrom $20/mo

- Claude CodeFrom $17/mo

- ClineFree

- DevinFree, then $20/mo

- GitHub CopilotFree, then $10/user/mo

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## Where it ranks

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