# Cursor > Source: https://agentsindex.ai/cursor Coding agent in a desktop editor and CLI, with cloud agents, code review and SDKs. - Best for: Software engineers who want AI help across coding, review, and team workflows. Starting price Free From [cursor.com/pricing](https://cursor.com/pricing), checked 8 November 2026 - MCP server Partly - API Yes - Open source No - Self-host Not stated [Docs](https://cursor.com/docs) What we checked - Pages last read: 8 November 2026 - Facts checked: 5 facts From 11 sources, read 27 October 2026 - AI answers: Not named in any of 62 Buyer questions, our November check [How we check](https://agentsindex.ai/methodology) [Editorial policy](https://agentsindex.ai/editorial-policy#not-for-sale) [Visit Cursor](https://agentsindex.ai/go/cursor) [Compare](https://agentsindex.ai/compare?cat=coding-agents&products=cursor) ## What is Cursor? Cursor is an AI-powered code editor and development platform for engineers and teams that want to write, review, and ship software faster. It combines AI-Powered Code Assistance, Tab Autocomplete, Cloud Agents, Code Review, Mission Control Interface, Usage analytics, and the Marketplace to reduce context switching. It supports Slack, GitHub, Microsoft Teams, Jira, Trello, GitLab, CLI, and Google Workspace, and is used by Stripe, Brex, OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Y Combinator. ## What it does well Cursor is a full VS Code-based editor (not a thin wrapper or extension) with a multi-agent architecture: Composer for in-editor edits, Cloud/Background Agents that run on remote machines and keep working after you close your laptop, and a CLI agent for terminal workflows. It reached $500M ARR by June 2025 and $4 billion in annualized revenue by June 2026 (Forbes, Bloomberg via Wikipedia), a growth rate rarely seen even among AI-native startups, which is corroborating evidence that developers who try it tend to keep paying for it. As of September 2026 it ships "Projects" — a coordinator agent that delegates work across many subagents and maintains shared context over weeks of work — and self-hosted machine pools that let enterprises keep code and secrets entirely on their own infrastructure while Cursor's agent still drives tool calls. ## OpenAI is leaving Cursor on November 12, 2026 On August 28, 2026, OpenAI announced it would wind down its contract supplying models to Cursor, with a proposed cutoff of November 12, 2026 (OpenAI, 'Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX'). OpenAI says the reason is a change-of-control clause: Cursor's parent Anysphere was acquired by Elon Musk's SpaceX, and OpenAI says it 'cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service,' citing Musk-controlled companies' past contract violations — a claim OpenAI made, not one we've independently verified. Until the cutoff, existing OpenAI models keep working in Cursor as they do today, and OpenAI has proposed maximum notice under its contract; it says it will not supply future models to Cursor under the current agreement (OpenAI Help Center, 'Using OpenAI models in Cursor'). After the cutoff, OpenAI documents three ways to keep using its models inside Cursor: bring your own OpenAI API key (billed separately, works only in local Chat/Agent — not Tab, Auto, Cloud Agents, Automations, CLI, or the API/SDK), install OpenAI's Codex IDE extension as a parallel agent, or connect through an AI gateway like Bedrock or Azure. Cursor co-founder Michael Truell has said OpenAI accounts for only around 5% of Cursor's model traffic (Tom's Guide, citing Truell), and Anthropic has publicly said it will increase Claude compute allocated to Cursor in response — so most users on Claude, Grok, or Cursor's own Composer models should see no disruption at all. This matters most for teams whose workflow leans specifically on GPT models through Cursor's built-in routing, Cloud Agents, or CLI, where a personal API key won't help. ## Ownership: now a SpaceX subsidiary Cursor's parent company Anysphere was acquired by SpaceX in an all-stock deal implying a $60 billion valuation, announced June 16, 2026 and closed August 14, 2026 (Wikipedia, citing SEC Form 8-K and Bloomberg Law). Cursor now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary integrated into SpaceXAI, alongside Grok and other SpaceX AI products. This is the largest-ever acquisition of a venture-backed startup and follows Cursor's own IPO-adjacent run: a $2.3 billion Series D in November 2025 valued the company at $29.3 billion before the SpaceX deal roughly doubled that. The practical effect for buyers beyond the OpenAI cutoff: Cursor is no longer an independent company answerable only to its own roadmap, and its product direction will increasingly be set jointly with SpaceX/xAI priorities — for instance, Cursor's homepage as of September 2026 already prominently features Grok 4.6 as a default model option and 'Grok Bot' access is now bundled into every paid tier. ## Pricing Cursor publishes real numbers on its pricing page: Hobby is free with limited Agent requests and access to Composer; Individual is $20/month for Pro (with Pro+ and Ultra tiers above it) and includes extended Agent limits, frontier model access, MCPs/skills/hooks, and cloud agents; Teams is $40/user/month with centralized billing, SSO, and shared team context; Enterprise is custom-quoted with pooled usage, SCIM, and audit logging. The free tier and the $20 entry point make Cursor one of the more accessible ways to try a full agentic coding workflow rather than a single-model chat wrapper. ## Company scale and continuity Anysphere was founded in 2022 by four MIT students (Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Aman Sanger, Arvid Lunnemark) and employed roughly 300 people as of August 2025 (Fortune, cited via Wikipedia) — small relative to its revenue, but not a single-founder operation. Co-founder Arvid Lunnemark left in October 2025 to start a separate AI safety lab; the other three founders remain, with Truell as CEO. Cursor has made several acquisitions of its own (Supermaven in 2024, engineering talent from Koala in 2025, code-review startup Graphite in December 2025), suggesting a company still actively building rather than in maintenance mode, even as it now answers to SpaceX ownership. ## Security and compliance Cursor's public security page (last updated August 25, 2026) lists AIUC-1, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, and ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certifications plus a SOC 2 Type II attestation, with certificates available on request via trust.cursor.com. It states Cursor does not use or maintain infrastructure in China and does not use China-headquartered subprocessors. Privacy Mode (available on free and paid plans) disables training on customer data. This is a reasonably substantial published trust posture for a developer tool at this price point. ## A past reliability incident worth knowing about In April 2025, a Cursor AI support agent named 'Sam' fabricated a login policy that did not exist, prompting user cancellations before staff apologized and issued refunds (Ars Technica). Separately, a July 2025 change to the $20 Pro plan silently switched from a fixed request count to usage-metered billing, causing unexpected charges; Cursor apologized, rolled back the change, and refunded affected users (TechCrunch). Both incidents were resolved and are now over a year old, but they're the kind of operational history a buyer evaluating billing predictability or support quality would want to know before committing. Our take Check whether your team needs SAML/OIDC SSO, enforced privacy mode, or SCIM seat management, since those controls appear on Teams and Enterprise. If audit logs and the AI code tracking API matter, verify the Enterprise path before committing. ## How much does Cursor cost? Prices excluding tax, as Cursor publishes them. - Free · Free - Plus · $8/month - Premium · $30/month - Super · $100/month - Ultra · $200/month - Teams · From $30/user/month - Enterprise · Custom [![Cursor](https://agentsindex.ai/img/1024/screenshots/cursor/pricing.webp)](https://agentsindex.ai/img/1920/screenshots/cursor/pricing.webp) Pricing page, captured 18 October 2026 [cursor.com/pricing](https://cursor.com/pricing), checked 8 November 2026 ### All plans and limits | Plan | Price | AI usage | Team marketplaces | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 a month | Limited | Not stated | | Plus | $8 a month | Shared pool | Not stated | | Premium | $30 a month | 4x more usage compared to Plus | Not stated | | Teams | From $30 per user a month | 4-50x Plus | 1 team marketplace | | Super | $100 a month | 15x more usage compared to Plus | Not stated | | Ultra | $200 a month | 50x more usage compared to Plus | Not stated | | Enterprise | Price on request | Pooled | Unlimited | Read 12 November 2026 from [cursor.com/pricing](https://cursor.com/pricing). ## For AI agents - MCP server: Partly - API: Yes [Developer docs](https://cursor.com/docs) ## What we checked on Cursor Yes Partly No What it costs to start Yes ### What the price counts Individual plans are flat monthly subscriptions from $8 to $200, Teams is billed per user per month, and third-party model usage is metered on top at API list price. > Teams$30+/user/month Compare features across plans table, Teams column header [cursor.com/pricing](https://cursor.com/pricing) Checked 27 October 2026 What it costs to start Yes ### Free tier The Hobby plan is free with no credit card and limited usage; no sales call, and Bugbot separately offers a 14-day trial. > The Hobby plan gives you access to Cursor's core features with limited usage. You can use Agent, Chat, and Tab completions with the Auto model. Pricing and plans, "What's included in the free Hobby plan?" [cursor.com/help/account-and-billing/pri…](https://cursor.com/help/account-and-billing/pricing) Checked 2 September 2026 How you build with it Yes ### Public API Cloud Agents API is beta on all plans and the TypeScript/Python SDKs are for all users; Admin, Analytics, AI Code Tracking and Bugbot APIs are Enterprise-only, and the India-only Start plan excludes the SDK. > Cursor provides multiple APIs for programmatic access to your team's data, AI-powered coding agents, and analytics. Cursor APIs Overview, opening paragraph and Availability column [cursor.com/docs/api](https://cursor.com/docs/api) Checked 2 September 2026 How you build with it Partly ### MCP server MCP is inbound only: Cursor is the client that connects to MCP servers. Another agent drives Cursor over ACP (agent acp) or the SDKs, not by querying an MCP endpoint Cursor exposes. > Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables Cursor to connect to external tools and data sources. Model Context Protocol, "What is MCP?" [cursor.com/docs/mcp](https://cursor.com/docs/mcp) Checked 2 September 2026 How you build with it No ### Open source The Terms of Service forbid deriving or accessing the source; the /licenses page covers only third-party open source components used inside the IDE. > you may not: (i) reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, decode, or otherwise attempt to derive or gain access to the source code, object code or… Terms of Service, restrictions clause listing prohibited uses [cursor.com/terms-of-service](https://cursor.com/terms-of-service) Checked 2 September 2026 ## Cursor alternatives - [Hyper](https://agentsindex.ai/hyper) · The team behind Hyper runs this listing · Autonomous engineering agent that tests each delivery in a real browser on its servers and ships it with evidence. · Free, then $20 a month Checked 11 Nov · Featured Freemium Free trial · [Visit](https://agentsindex.ai/go/hyper) - MCP server - API - Open source - Self-host - Cursor and Hyper | Cursor | Free, then $8 a seat a month | 27 Oct | | --- | --- | --- | | [Hyper](https://agentsindex.ai/hyper) | Free, then $20 a month | 11 Nov | ## Where we've written about Cursor - [Hyper review (2026): an autonomous coding agent that ships verified pull requests](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/hyper-review-autonomous-coding-agent) - [AI coding agents compared: what each one is actually good at](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/ai-coding-agents-what-each-is-good-at) - [Best free AI agents: 10 tools with real free tiers](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/best-free-ai-agents-real-free-tiers) ## Questions about Cursor - How much does Cursor cost?: Cursor has a free plan. Its paid plans include Plus at $8 a month, Premium at $30 a month and Teams from $30 per user a month. From cursor.com/pricing, checked 8 November 2026. - Does Cursor have an API or an MCP server?: It has an API. It has a limited MCP server. - Is Cursor open source, and can you host it yourself?: It is not open source. - What have we checked on Cursor?: 5 facts, under these headings: What it costs to start, how you build with it. - How do we check Cursor?: We hold 5 facts on Cursor, quoted from 11 pages. Facts last checked 27 October 2026. Price last checked 8 November 2026. Last change found 18 October 2026. [How we check every listing](https://agentsindex.ai/methodology) ## Sources and changes Last changed 8 November 2026 Sources on cursor.com 11 - Read 6 November 2026 · [/pricing](https://cursor.com/pricing) - Read 6 November 2026 · [/changelog](https://cursor.com/changelog) - Read 5 November 2026 · [/docs/api](https://cursor.com/docs/api) - Read 6 November 2026 · [/docs/enterprise](https://cursor.com/docs/enterprise) - Read 18 October 2026 · [/pricing](https://www.cursor.com/pricing) - Read 5 November 2026 · [/changelog/cloud-agent-canvases-and-environments](https://cursor.com/changelog/cloud-agent-canvases-and-environments) - Read 5 November 2026 · [/docs/cursor-router](https://cursor.com/docs/cursor-router) - Read 2 September 2026 · [/docs/mcp](https://cursor.com/docs/mcp) - Read 2 September 2026 · [/help/account-and-billing/pricing](https://cursor.com/help/account-and-billing/pricing) - Read 5 November 2026 · [/security](https://cursor.com/security) - Read 2 September 2026 · [/terms-of-service](https://cursor.com/terms-of-service) What changed on this page 1 - 18 October 2026 Price ## Similar to Cursor [See all in Coding agents](https://agentsindex.ai/categories/coding-agents) - [ERIUS PHONE](https://agentsindex.ai/eriusphone) A dedicated virtual Android phone per AI agent, with Google Play apps and sign-ins that persist between sessions. 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