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Cursor pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

Cursor (cursor.com) is a AI coding tool. Flat monthly individual tiers set by included usage (Plus to Ultra) plus per-seat Teams plans; third-party models are billed separately at API list price.. Free plan: Free: limited agent and Chat requests and limited AI usage..

What Cursor costs

  • Solo: $8/mo (Plus $8/mo monthly billing (checkout link yearly=false); includes Cursor Agent with basic usage but only Grok models. Third-party models need Premium ($30).)
  • Top plan: $200/mo (Ultra $200/mo, 50x Plus usage.)
  • Team of 10: $300/mo (Teams listed at $30+/user/month x 10 = $300; cheapest seat type assumed; seat types can be mixed (higher seats cost more).)

Plan compared: Plus ($8/mo, Grok models only). Monthly list price in USD on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12). Solo is the cheapest paid plan one developer can buy, Top is the most expensive individual tier, and Team of 10 is ten seats on the cheapest team plan with central billing and admin; pay-as-you-go model usage beyond what a plan includes is not counted.

What Cursor does

Core: Autonomous build agent, In-browser code editor, Agentic coding tool, Inline code completion, Codebase indexing, AI-native code editor, Multi-lab model choice.

Important: Prompt-to-app generation, Code export & GitHub sync, Team workspaces, SSO & compliance, Open source, local & own keys (partly), Terminal agent (CLI), Background cloud agents, Web and mobile access, Slack and issue triggers, AI pull request review, MCP tool connections, Rules, commands and subagents, Plan and spec mode, Built-in browser testing, Team admin and analytics, Privacy and compliance, Automated fixes (partly), AI test generation.

Also has: Native mobile apps (partly), Visual point-and-click edits (partly), Design to code, Payments & subscriptions (partly), Connectors & API integrations (partly), Security checks on apps (partly), Build from your phone (partly), VS Code and JetBrains extensions (partly), Bring your own API key (partly), Static code analysis (partly), IDE & pre-commit checks (partly), Multi-platform Git support (partly).

Cursor price hikes

Alternatives to Cursor

Cursor is the cheapest AI coding tool we track at 1 developer. The others:

Cursor alternatives: 3 AI coding tools compared, at every size.

Other kinds of products that cover part of Cursor

  • GitHub (Code hosting & CI): covers 76% of Cursor; missing or partial: Inline code completion, AI-native code editor (partly), Terminal agent (CLI) (partly), MCP tool connections (partly), Plan and spec mode (partly)
  • GitLab (Code hosting & CI): covers 65% of Cursor; missing or partial: Inline code completion (partly), Codebase indexing (partly), AI-native code editor (partly), Multi-lab model choice (partly), Terminal agent (CLI) (partly)
  • Claude (AI assistants): covers 57% of Cursor; missing or partial: Inline code completion, Codebase indexing (partly), AI-native code editor (partly), Multi-lab model choice, Terminal agent (CLI)
  • Replit (AI app builders): covers 55% of Cursor; missing or partial: Inline code completion, Codebase indexing (partly), AI-native code editor (partly), Terminal agent (CLI), Slack and issue triggers
  • v0 (AI app builders): covers 49% of Cursor; missing or partial: Inline code completion, Codebase indexing (partly), AI-native code editor (partly), Multi-lab model choice (partly), Terminal agent (CLI)

Every change we logged

  • Oct 2026 · Repriced: Pro $20, Pro+ $60 and Ultra $200 gave way to Plus $8 (Grok models only), Premium $30, Super $100 and Ultra $200, bundled with Grok and X perks; third-party models are now billed separately at API list price. Teams now start at $30+/user (Standard was $40).
  • Jun 2025 · Limits cut: Pro stayed at $20/mo, but its 500 fast requests per month were replaced by a pool of about $20 of model usage at API rates (plus unlimited Auto), so heavy users of premium models got far fewer requests. Cursor's CEO apologized and offered refunds.

Sources

Pricing page: cursor.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices are from cursor.com/pricing fetched 2026-10-17 (monthly checkout links). PricingSaaS still showed Pro/Pro+/Ultra on 2026-09-08, so the restructure date is only known to fall between then and mid-October. The Teams $30 seat price is shown only as '$30+'. PricingSaaS also logged minor copy changes in Jul-Aug 2026 (a Hobby Tab-completion perk and Composer 'generous limits' wording); these are not recorded as hikes.