Cursor pricing
Yes. Cursor has a free plan, and its cheapest paid plan is $20/mo.
Cursor's entry plan is the 5th cheapest of the 6 coding & dev tools we price, by the least a year costs on each; Codex is lowest at $96 a year (listed monthly price times 12). Figures last confirmed 22 Aug 2026.
Plans
- Free plan
- Limited Agent requests, access to Composer, no credit card required
- Entry paid plan
- $20/mo
- Cost per year
- $240 a year at the listed monthly price on the entry plan
Cursor against the cheapest coding & dev tools
Entry plans only, ranked by the least a year costs on each: the annual-billed price where the vendor offers one, otherwise the monthly price times 12. The last column compares like with like: annual billing with annual billing when both tools offer it, otherwise the monthly price times 12 for both. Per-user and flat prices are not subtracted from each other.
| Tool | Free plan | Entry | Per year | A year vs Cursor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 CodexsecondaryTry | Limited | $8/mo | $96listed monthly price times 12 | $144 lessboth at the monthly price times 12 |
 GitHub CopilotTry | Yes | $10/mo | $120 per userlisted monthly price times 12 | per user vs flat |
 Claude CodeTry | No | $20/mo | $204billed annually | sameboth at the monthly price times 12 |
 ReplitTry | Yes | $17/mo | $204billed annually | sameboth at the monthly price times 12 |
 Cursor | Yes | $20/mo | $240listed monthly price times 12 | this tool |
 Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)secondaryTry | Yes | $20/mo | $240listed monthly price times 12 | sameboth at the monthly price times 12 |
Is Cursor free?
Yes. Cursor has a free plan, and its cheapest paid plan is $20/mo. The free plan: Limited Agent requests, access to Composer, no credit card required.
How much does Cursor cost?
Cursor's cheapest paid plan is $20/mo, which comes to $240 a year at the listed monthly price.
Verified · source: cursor.com, www.cnbc.com, finance.yahoo.com
2026-08-22 pass: pricing page unchanged since 08-18. Confirmed via CNBC, Yahoo Finance and Seeking Alpha that SpaceX finalized a $60B all-stock acquisition of Anysphere (Cursor's maker) on Aug 14, 2026; Cursor now operates as a wholly owned unit of SpaceXAI. No pricing or product changes tied to the deal have been announced yet.
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