# Cursor — AI Compare Ninja

> Work across codebases in a VS Code-based editor with an agent, chat, and autocomplete.

## Overview
- **Category:** Development & Code (Coding assistants & IDEs)
- **Status:** Active · checked - An active download, free tier, and self-service subscriptions are available.
- **Paid from:** 8 USD / Month (Plus)
- **Free access:** Free plan (No credit card is required. Agent requests are limited. The pricing page does not publish a fixed request count.)
- **Website:** https://cursor.com/
- **Canonical URL:** https://www.aicompare.ninja/en/tool/cursor

## What it does
- AI agent in the code editor for reading, writing, and refactoring
- Chat and inline edits with frontier models (including Claude, GPT)
- Codebase context from open files and project structure
- Terminal and tool use in agent mode
- For new customers: Free, Plus, Premium, Super, and Ultra
- Projects (beta since September 2026): a coordinator agent for work spanning months, delegating to many subagents, no new subscription price

## In brief
Work across codebases in a VS Code-based editor with an agent, chat, and autocomplete.

New customers buy The X Subscription instead of the earlier standalone plans. Plus at 8 USD includes Grok models only. Premium at 30 USD, Super at 100 USD, and Ultra at 200 USD share the same weekly pool.


## Limits
The X Subscription for new customers: Free 0 USD, Plus 8 USD, Premium 30 USD, Super 100 USD, and Ultra 200 USD per month. Teams cost 30 USD, 100 USD, or 200 USD per seat. Included Grok usage is one pool shared by Grok and Cursor and refreshes weekly. Plus includes Grok models only. From Premium, third-party models in Cursor are billed at API list price via top-ups. Existing subscribers can keep their current plan and price until they switch. A plan billed through the Apple App Store is not cancelled by that switch.

## Pricing tiers
| Tier | Price | Period | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free | free | Month | 0 USD per month. Limited agent and chat, a starter Cursor allowance, and standard X. |
| Plus | 8 USD | Month | 8 USD per month. Shared AI pool. Cursor plus Grok Chat, Voice, Imagine, and Build, plus the Grok API. Grok models only. Checkmark, fewer ads, and creator tools on X. |
| Premium | 30 USD | Month | 30 USD per month. 4x Plus. Latest Grok models, Grok Bot, cloud agents, Origin hosting, and Bugbot. Video generation. Third-party models in Cursor are extra at API list price via top-ups. |
| Super | 100 USD | Month | 100 USD per month. 15x Plus. Priority model access at peak. Third-party models in Cursor are extra at API list price via top-ups. |
| Ultra | 200 USD | Month | 200 USD per month. 50x Plus. Earliest access to products and models. Third-party models in Cursor are extra at API list price via top-ups. |
| Teams Premium | 30 USD | Per seat per month | 30 USD per seat per month. Same usage as Premium, 4x Plus. SSO, admin, consolidated billing, analytics, and SOC 2. |
| Teams Super | 100 USD | Per seat per month | 100 USD per seat per month. Same usage as Super, 15x Plus. SSO, admin, consolidated billing, analytics, and SOC 2. |
| Teams Ultra | 200 USD | Per seat per month | 200 USD per seat per month. Same usage as Ultra, 50x Plus. SSO, admin, consolidated billing, analytics, and SOC 2. |
| Enterprise | contact sales | Custom | Custom quote. Pooled usage, invoicing, and admin controls. |

## Models and limits
| Model | Provider | Context | Max. context | $ / 1M input | $ / 1M output | Note |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Composer 2.5 | Cursor | 200k | 200k | 0.5 | 2.5 | Cursor Models Pool |
| Composer 2.5 Fast | Cursor | 200k | 200k | 3 | 15 | Fast mode costs more |
| Grok 4.6 | Cursor / SpaceXAI | 256k | 256k | 2 | 6 | Cursor Models Pool |
| Grok 4.6 Fast | Cursor / SpaceXAI | 256k | 256k | 4 | 12 | Fast mode costs more |
| Grok 4.5 | Cursor / SpaceXAI | 256k | 256k | 2 | 6 | Cursor Models Pool |
| Grok 4.5 Fast | Cursor / SpaceXAI | 256k | 256k | 4 | 18 | Fast mode costs more |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | Anthropic | 200k | 1M | 2 | 10 | Other Models, API Price |
| Claude Opus 5 | Anthropic | 200k | 1M | 5 | 25 | Other models |
| GPT-5.5 | OpenAI | 200k | 1M | 5 | 30 | Other models; Long context 2x input |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro | Google | 200k | 1M | 2 | 12 | Other models |
| Claude Fable 5.1 | Anthropic | 200k | 1M | 10 | 50 | Other Models, API Price |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | Google | 200k | not published | 0.75 | 3.5 | Other Models, API Price |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | OpenAI | 200k | 1.05M | 4 | 20 | Other Models, API Price |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | OpenAI | 200k | not published | 2 | 12 | Other Models, API Price |
| GPT-5.6 Luna | OpenAI | 200k | not published | 0.2 | 1.2 | Other Models, API Price |
| Muse Spark 1.3 | Meta | 200k | not published | 1.25 | 4.25 | Other Models, API Price |

## Sources
All details regarding plans, limits, and features are based on official vendor documentation and the primary sources verified below.

- https://cursor.com/pricing
- https://cursor.com/help/the-x-subscription/overview
- https://cursor.com/docs/models-and-pricing
- https://cursor.com/blog/projects

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*Source: AI Compare Ninja (2026) - https://www.aicompare.ninja/en/tool/cursor*