Cursor
Cursor is your coding agent for building ambitious software.
By Anysphere, Inc. · 4.3/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Engineering teams that want one AI agent to plan, build, debug, and review code inside the IDE, CLI, Slack, and PRs.
- Organizations standardizing on a single AI coding tool with SSO, SCIM, audit logs, and access controls.
- Platform teams that want cloud agents running long autonomous tasks in parallel against their repos.
- Companies that already use GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, or JetBrains and want minimal tooling change.
Ideal size: 10–500+ engineers people · Product engineering team with CI/CD, code review, and source control standards
Not for
- Non-engineering functions; Cursor is a coding agent, not a general business or back-office assistant.
- Buyers who need fully fixed per-seat pricing with no usage-based overage on model consumption.
- Teams that cannot permit prompts or code to reach third-party model providers at all.
- Organizations wanting an autonomous agent that merges or rolls back changes without human review.
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
Same day for individuals; 2–4 weeks for org rollout
~7 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
$24,000/yr
Starts at $240 · Per-seat subscription, monthly or annual, with an included pool of model usage; overage billed on demand in arrears.
Implementation Friction
1/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Free Hobby; Individual from $20/user/mo (Pro, Pro+, Ultra); Teams $40/user/mo; Enterprise custom.
Add-on costs
- On-demand model usage beyond the included amount, billed in arrears
- Bugbot on usage-based billing (Individual plan)
Company & support
Who is behind Cursor, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Headquarters
- Not recorded
How you get support
- PhoneNot listed
- EmailPlan not stated
- Live chatNot listed
- Support portal / ticketsNot listed
- Community forumPlan not stated
- Help centre / docsAll plans
- Dedicated account managerEnterprise only
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- Not recorded
- Response time
- Not stated
Help docs and a user forum are open to everyone; support email [email protected] handles account and billing questions. Enterprise adds priority support and account management.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Cursor sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line. A dashed ring marks an outlier pinned to the edge; hover for its value.
Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- Cursor
- Attio
- Common Room
- Instantly
- Weflow
- Maxio
Add or change companies
Up to 10 companies including Cursor. Listed closest first.
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
Ships an official MCP server. Connects to Claude Code, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT connectors and Cursor out of the box.
AI & MCP readiness
What Cursor ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
Vendor describes in-IDE assistance (Cmd+K edits, tab completion) and fleets of autonomous cloud agents, subagents, and bots that run tasks in parallel and on their own machines.
Your data & models
- Trains on your data
- Never trains on your data
- Runs on
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google
- AI pricing
- Included in the plan
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Official MCP server
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Basic visibility
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Cursor is Anysphere's AI coding agent: an IDE, CLI, and cloud agents that plan, build, fix, and review code, working alongside GitHub, GitLab, Slack, and Jira. Individuals start free or at $20/month; Teams is $40/user/month with SSO, admin controls, and shared context; Enterprise adds pooled usage, SCIM, audit logs, and MCP access controls. Customers including Stripe, NVIDIA, Coinbase, and Brex report large velocity and PR-volume gains. It is developer tooling only, and model usage past plan limits is billed on demand.
Frequently asked questions
How is Cursor priced, and what drives cost beyond the seat price?
Hobby is free with limited agent requests. Individual starts at $20/user/month and Teams at $40/user/month, billed monthly or annually. Every plan includes a set amount of model usage; on-demand usage continues past that amount and is billed in arrears. Enterprise is custom, with pooled usage, invoice/PO billing, and SCIM seat management.
Can we stop our code and prompts from being used to train models?
Anysphere's privacy policy states it does not use Inputs or Suggestions to train its models or permit third parties to do so, except where flagged for security review, explicitly reported as feedback, or explicitly agreed for training. Privacy Mode, available to free and paid users and enforceable by team admins, adds the guarantee that code data is not used for training.
Does Cursor meet enterprise security and compliance requirements?
The security page states Cursor holds AIUC-1, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, and ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certifications plus a SOC 2 Type II attestation, with reports on request via the trust portal. Enterprise plans add SSO and SCIM, audit logs, service accounts, repo/model/MCP access controls, and AI code tracking. Self-hosted machines keep execution in your network.
Which AI models can we use, and are they included?
Cursor lets teams choose among frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, plus Cursor's own Composer models, and auto-selects a model per task. Model usage is included in each plan up to a set pool, with on-demand usage billed afterwards; pooled enterprise usage is available.
How long does it take to get value, and how hard is rollout?
The product is self-serve: documentation points teams from install to a first useful change quickly, and there is no mandatory implementation fee. Individual developers typically see value within days, while organization-wide rollout with SSO, admin policies, and agent controls generally takes a few weeks.
What does Cursor integrate with?
Documented integrations include Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, Linear, Notion, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, JetBrains, and Xcode, plus an MCP configuration surface for third-party tools. Cloud agents can also run on infrastructure such as AWS Lambda, Vercel, Cloudflare, and Modal.