Cursor is an AI-powered integrated development environment (IDE) designed to supercharge programmer productivity. It features intelligent code completion, autonomous coding agents, deep codebase understanding, and integrations with GitHub and Slack. It helps developers write, review, and deploy code faster by automating routine tasks and providing context-aware assistance.
Freemium
from $20/mo
How to use Cursor?
Download and install Cursor as your primary IDE. Use the 'Tab' key for lightning-fast, context-aware code completions as you type. For complex tasks, press Cmd+K to open the Composer agent, describe what you want to build (e.g., 'create a landing page'), and let the AI draft the code. You can also connect it to your GitHub to review pull requests automatically or integrate with Slack for team collaboration. It learns your entire codebase to provide accurate suggestions.
Cursor 's Core Features
Intelligent Tab Completions: A specialized AI model predicts your next lines of code with striking speed and precision, reducing keystrokes and boilerplate writing.
Autonomous Coding Agents (Composer): Hand off complete tasks like 'build a dashboard' or 'fix this bug' to AI agents. They work autonomously in parallel, exploring your codebase, writing, testing, and demoing features for your review.
Deep Codebase Indexing & Understanding: Cursor semantically indexes your entire project, no matter the scale. It understands code relationships, allowing you to ask questions like 'Where is this function defined?' and get instant, accurate answers.
Multi-Surface Integration: Cursor isn't just an IDE. It reviews PRs directly in GitHub, collaborates with your team in Slack channels, and runs commands in your terminal, bringing AI assistance to your entire workflow.
Model Flexibility: Choose the best AI model for each task from leading providers like OpenAI's GPT, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, xAI's Grok, or Cursor's own specialized models, all within the same interface.
Cloud Agents: Agents can run on their own cloud computers to build, test, and demo features end-to-end without consuming your local machine's resources, enabling parallel development work.
Cursor Rules & Customization: Set up custom rules for your codebase to enforce patterns, automate repetitive fixes, and guide AI behavior, making the assistant work the way your team does.
Cursor 's Use Cases
For a frontend developer building a React component, Cursor's Tab completions instantly suggest JSX and hooks, while an Agent can generate a complete, styled component from a description in seconds.
A full-stack engineer planning a new feature can use the Composer agent to draft a comprehensive implementation plan, breaking down the task into subtasks and identifying relevant files to modify.
A tech lead reviewing a pull request on GitHub can summon Cursor's BugBot to automatically analyze the code for logic errors, bugs, and style inconsistencies, speeding up the review process.
A startup small team can use Cursor's shared chats and rules to maintain coding standards and onboard new developers quickly, with AI providing consistent guidance aligned with the team's practices.
An enterprise developer working on a massive legacy codebase uses Cursor's semantic search to instantly navigate and understand complex, undocumented areas, saving hours of manual exploration.
A solo indie hacker can prototype a full-stack application rapidly by describing features to AI agents, which handle backend API routes, database schemas, and frontend UI simultaneously.
A data scientist writing PyTorch experiments can get accurate autocompletions for complex tensor operations and use agents to set up training pipelines or visualize results.
Cursor 's Pricing
Hobby
Free
Free plan with limited Agent requests and Tab completions. No credit card required.
Pro
$20/mo
Extended limits on Agents, access to frontier models (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini), MCPs, skills, hooks, and cloud agents.
Pro+
$60/mo
Recommended plan. Everything in Pro plus 3x usage on all OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini models.
Ultra
$200/mo
Everything in Pro plus 20x usage on frontier models and priority access to new features.
Teams
$40/user/mo
Business plan with shared chats, centralized billing, usage analytics, org-wide privacy controls, role-based access, and SAML/OIDC SSO.
Enterprise
Custom
Custom plan with pooled usage, invoice billing, SCIM seat management, AI code tracking API, audit logs, granular admin controls, and priority support.
