Agent-centered code editor from Anysphere, now part of SpaceX, with desktop and cloud agents, a CLI, Bugbot code review and multi-model support.
- Cloud Agents run tasks in parallel on remote machines and can demo results
- Wide model menu, including in-house Composer models and an Auto mode
- Same agent available in the desktop app, CLI, Slack and GitHub
- Bugbot adds AI pull request review inside GitHub
- Cheapest paid plan only offers Grok models
- Plans now bundle unrelated X and Grok perks, which complicates comparison
- Third-party model usage is billed separately on top of the subscription
Cursor began as an AI-first code editor forked from VS Code by the startup Anysphere and has grown into a desktop environment centered on coding agents. Since August 2026 the company has been part of SpaceX, and the product now sits next to xAI’s Grok models and services.
The Cursor desktop app lets developers hand off tasks to agents that plan, edit files and report back, while Cloud Agents run on their own machines in parallel and can test and demo features for review. A terminal version, Cursor CLI, brings the same agent to the command line. Bugbot reviews pull requests on GitHub, and Slack and GitHub integrations let teams start work outside the editor. Model selection is broad: Cursor’s own Composer models sit alongside Grok, GPT, Claude Opus and Gemini options, with an Auto setting that picks one for you. Automations, Mission Control for managing agents, a marketplace and an Agent SDK round out the platform.
Cursor suits professional developers who want an editor built around agents rather than an assistant added to an existing IDE, and teams that like running several tasks at once in the cloud. Pricing changed after the acquisition: the entry Plus plan is bundled with Grok and X features and limits AI usage to Grok models, so third-party models require the Premium tier or higher and are billed at API list price. Anyone attached to a specific Claude or GPT workflow should compare tiers carefully before subscribing.
