Cursor - AI-Powered IDE
About Cursor
AI-powered IDE designed to replace VS Code, built for developers. Provides autocomplete, refactoring, debugging, and can generate entire modules or projects.
Cursor interface preview
Key Capabilities
Full IDE with AI-native features
Autocomplete and intelligent refactoring
Supports full project builds
Optimised for professional coders
Migration support (e.g., Tailwind v3 → v4)
Large community and rapid updates
Standout Features
AI-Native IDE
Built from ground up with AI integration, not just a plugin
Smart Refactoring
Intelligent code refactoring across entire projects
Instant Autocomplete
Context-aware code completion that understands your codebase
Perfect for
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Read ArticlePricing Plans
How much does Cursor cost?
Hobby
per month
- 2,000 AI completions/month
- 50 slow AI requests/month
- Works with all major languages
- Access to GPT-4o and Claude (limited)
- No commercial-use guarantee
- Limited AI requests per month
- No priority support
Pro
per month
- Unlimited completions
- 500 fast requests/month
- Unlimited slow requests
- GPT-4o, Claude, and o1 access
- Cursor Tab everywhere
- After 500 fast requests, falls back to slower models
- $20/month per seat
When you need unlimited completions for daily professional coding
Business
per month
- Everything in Pro
- Centralized billing and team admin
- Team-level privacy controls
- SAML SSO and enforced privacy mode
- $40/month per seat
Our Take on Cursor
“Cursor is the benchmark AI IDE for professional developers. If you write code daily and want AI deeply integrated into your workflow without abandoning VS Code, this is the tool to beat.”
Strengths
- Best-in-class autocomplete with full project context awareness
- Composer generates entire files and functions from natural language
- Minimal learning curve if you already use VS Code
- Fast iteration loop — accept or reject AI suggestions inline
- Large active community with rapid weekly updates
- Works across all major languages and frameworks
Limitations
- AI request limits hit quickly on the Hobby (free) tier
- Privacy mode requires manual configuration — not on by default
- Less polished for languages outside TypeScript and Python
- Some users find tab-completion too aggressive over time
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Community Buzz
Andrej Karpathy
@karpathy
I can't imagine coding without Cursor anymore. It's not just an autocomplete, it's a whole new way of interacting with code. The Composer feature is mind-blowing.
Guillermo Rauch
@rauchg
Cursor is showing us what the future of IDEs looks like. It's fast, intuitive, and the AI integration is seamless.
Sahil Lavingia
@shl
Just built a whole feature in 10 minutes with Cursor. The 'vibe coding' is real.
Andrej Karpathy
@karpathy
Cool chart showing the ratio of Tab complete requests to Agent requests in Cursor. With improving capability, every point in time has an optimal setup that keeps changing and evolving and the community average tracks the point. None -> Tab -> Agent -> Parallel agents -> Agent Teams (?) -> ??? If you're too conservative, you're leaving leverage on the table. If you're too aggressive, you're net creating more chaos than doing useful work. The art of the process is spending 80% of the time getting work done in the setup you're comfortable with and that actually works, and 20% exploration of what might be the next step up even if it doesn't work yet.
Jayneil Dalal
@jayneildalal
This is how a top designer uses Cursor to build a Figma widget that converts illustrations into components Every designer should copy this AI workflow and publish an internal Figma widget to speed up their team's design workflow 👀
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