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AI-native code editor forked from VS Code, now sold as part of The X Subscription. Agent edits multiple files at once and Tab autocomplete predicts your next edit. Plus is $8/mo (Cursor's own Grok and Composer models only); Premium at $30/mo adds third-party models at API list price.
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Cursor is a fork of VS Code rebuilt around AI. The killer feature is Composer - you describe a change in natural language and it edits multiple files simultaneously with a diff view. Tab autocomplete goes beyond single-line suggestions, predicting multi-line edits based on your recent changes. It indexes your entire codebase for context and supports OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Cursor models, and custom API keys. Plans are Free, Plus $8/mo, Premium $30/mo, Super $100/mo, and Ultra $200/mo; Claude, GPT, and Gemini are billed at API list price on Premium and above, and the old Pro and Pro+ plans continue only for existing customers. I use Cursor for visual editing alongside Claude Code for CLI-driven autonomous work.
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- Pricing
- Free - $0/mo: limited Agent and Chat usage
- Plus - $8/mo ($80/yr): Cursor's own models only (Grok 4.7, 4.6, 4.5, Composer 2.5) at fixed settings; no Auto, Cloud Agents, Bugbot, third-party models or own API keys
- Premium - $30/mo ($300/yr): 4x Plus usage, Cloud Agents and Automations, Origin code hosting, Bugbot, third-party models at API list price from prepaid credit
- Super - $100/mo ($1,000/yr): 15x Plus usage, priority model access at peak times
- Ultra - $200/mo ($2,000/yr): 50x Plus usage, earliest access to new products and models
- Teams - $30, $100, or $200 per seat/mo; third-party models at API list price plus a $0.25 per million token Cursor Token Rate
- Enterprise - custom pricing, pooled usage
- Install
curl https://cursor.com/install -fsS | bashirm 'https://cursor.com/install?win32=true' | iex- Models
- Paid plans include a weekly usage pool, shared with Grok, for Cursor's own models: Grok 4.7, Grok 4.6, Grok 4.5, and Composer 2.5. Claude (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku 5.5, Fable 5.1), GPT-5.6, Gemini 4 Argon and 3.x, and Meta Muse Wonder are third-party models billed at API list price from prepaid credit on Premium and above; individual plans get Auto in Cost mode, while Teams and Enterprise can use Cursor Router's Balance and Intelligence modes.
- Recent changes
- Cloud agents can build and share interactive canvases, the Environments API enters beta, and cloud agent environments now support up to 300 repositories with 5x faster loading for large ones.
- The Origin App Marketplace adds 20+ apps for deployments, CI, code review, security, monitoring and project management, including Cloudflare, Linear, Sentry and Vercel, and opens to public submissions.
- Remote Control lets you see and reply to local agents running on your computer from the Cursor iOS app, on by default except for Enterprise organizations.
Sources: Cursor pricing, Cursor docs: Models and Pricing, Cursor docs: Legacy Cursor plans, Cursor CLI installation, Cursor changelog
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