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Cursor review
8.3/10★★★★★AI-native code editor with local, cloud and CLI coding agents and multi-model choice
- Best for
- IDE-first developers who want AI in every keystroke and the freedom to switch models
- Price
- Freemium · from $20/month
Free: Hobby: free with limited agent requests - Platforms
- Desktop app, Terminal, Web
- Made by
- Anysphere (SpaceX), San Francisco, USA · since 2022
What it is
Cursor is a VS Code-based editor built around AI, with tab completion, inline edits, an agent, cloud agents, a CLI and Bugbot code review. You can choose models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and xAI, or Cursor's own Composer. SpaceX completed its acquisition of maker Anysphere in August 2026.
Latest: SpaceX completed its $60B acquisition of Anysphere, Cursor's maker, in August 2026.
What the AI does
- Agent mode with multi-file edits
- Tab completion and inline edits
- Cloud agents and automations
- Cursor CLI
- Bugbot AI code review
- Choice of models (Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, Composer)
Pros and cons
- Polished AI-first editor experience
- Choice of frontier models
- Strong review and cloud-agent tooling
- VS Code extensions and keybindings carry over
- Usage-based billing makes heavy agent use unpredictable
- Its own Composer model scores far below the frontier models on Cursor's benchmark
- New SpaceX ownership raises questions about model neutrality
How it scores
Output can match the best when you pick a frontier model; its house model lags.
Feature checklist · 6 of 9
- Autonomous agent mode that edits multiple files (yes)
- Inline code completion as you type (yes)
- Choice of AI models from more than one vendor (yes)
- Use your own API keys, local models or self-hosted deployment (no)
- Extension for existing IDEs (VS Code or JetBrains) (no)
- Command-line (terminal) agent (yes)
- Cloud agents that keep working in the background (yes)
- AI code review for pull requests (yes)
- Connects to external tools (MCP, plugins or apps like Slack and Jira) (no)
Alternatives
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- OpenAI Codex 8.7/10Developers who want parallel, asynchronous tasks and pull requests back, bundled with ChatGPT
- GitHub Copilot 8.6/10Developers and teams on GitHub who want AI in the IDE they already use, at the lowest entry price
- Claude Code 8.5/10Engineers who hand off large multi-file tasks and long autonomous runs
- Amp 7.7/10Experienced developers and teams running many parallel, long-running agents
OpenAI Codex vs CursorGitHub Copilot vs CursorClaude Code vs Cursor
Sources
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