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Cursor

byAnysphere
in
4.5
Market Presence: AI Code Assistants, AI Agents for Application Developers

Overview

Product Information on Cursor

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Cursor?

Cursor is a software designed to enhance the productivity of developers by integrating coding, documentation, and collaboration tools into a single environment. The software incorporates features such as an AI-powered code assistant, code search, code editing, and project management capabilities, supporting multiple programming languages. It addresses the business challenge of streamlining software development workflows by enabling efficient navigation of codebases, automated completion, and contextual suggestions. Cursor facilitates code review and team collaboration, helping development teams manage and understand large-scale projects while reducing the time required to find and implement solutions.

Cursor Pricing

Cursor software uses a subscription-based pricing model, where users pay a recurring fee to access features related to AI-enabled development and code collaboration. Pricing tiers may vary based on usage levels or feature access, with details typically outlined on the provider’s site or through consultation. A free plan or trial version may be available. No Profile found

Overall experience with Cursor

VP, IT
250M - 500M USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“Platform Reduces Manual Work But Lacks Visibility In Structured Agent Creation”

4.0
Sep 10, 2025
The platform accelerates prototyping by reducing the manual overhead of code scaffolding, documentation lookup, and testing workflows. However, when moving beyond experimentation into structured agent creation, several limitations become apparent - particularly around end-to-end visibility and control. Limited visual feedback also adds challenges in building a complete agent.
DIRECTOR OF IT
<50M USD, IT Services
CRITICAL

“Revolutionary Features Improve Experience but Unfriendly Pricing Changes Impact Usage”

3.0
Sep 14, 2025
On the one hand, this is a revolutionary product that has made my life better for some time. The suggestions, the agentic assistant, they all are very good and make my life better. I do not like the pricing changes that are unfair.

About Company

Company Description

Anysphere focuses on automating coding to create an advanced human-AI hybrid programmer. This approach aims to increase programming efficiency, allowing developers to manage codebases effortlessly and iterate quickly even in complex systems. By combining AI and human creativity, Anysphere seeks to exceed the capabilities of pure AI systems. The company comprises researchers and engineers who develop software and models to push the boundaries of what is both useful and possible.

Company Details

Updated 26th May 2025
Company type
Private
Head office location
United States
Website
https://anysphere.inc/

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User Sentiment About Cursor
Reviewer Insights for: Cursor
Deciding Factors: Cursor Vs. Market Average

Cursor Likes & Dislikes

Like

Cursor AI makes it easier to understand a complete codebase by helping you quickly grasp module architecture, interdependencies and logic. It simplifies tracing references across modules, libraries and APIs, making it clear how functions interact and data moves. However, it is limited to module level.

Like

This is a great product with a wonderful UI. I owe it a lot as it has changed my approach towards coding and has removed a lot of the obstacles. It makes difficult things easy.

Like

I like the Agentic offering from Cursor. We have tried it for Google workspace development like extensions, add-ons and web applications. Cursor excels at all of those.

Dislike

Cursor AI's pricing sits midway in the market. For the productivity gains it offers, the cost feels justified, though scaling across larger teams would quickly add up. On the security side, while the platform is strong in its development assessment, it provides limited visibility into how code, prompts, and integrations are handled under the hood. Greater transparency and enterprise-grade controls would strengthen confidence in sensitive use cases.

Dislike

I really don't like their pricing changes. I think they are very unfriendly towards a loyal community. This has significantly reduced my usage and the ability to use my time effectively.

Dislike

I am yet to find dislikes here but sometimes some models are much inferior resulting in too much time being spent with back and forth prompting and guiding the model to understand the full context of our project requirement.

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Peer Discussions

Cursor Reviews and Ratings

4.5

(97 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
51%
4 Star
45%
3 Star
4%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.4

Integration & Deployment

4.6

Service & Support

4.2

Product Capabilities

4.6

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  • VP, IT
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Platform Reduces Manual Work But Lacks Visibility In Structured Agent Creation

    4.0
    Sep 10, 2025
    The platform accelerates prototyping by reducing the manual overhead of code scaffolding, documentation lookup, and testing workflows. However, when moving beyond experimentation into structured agent creation, several limitations become apparent - particularly around end-to-end visibility and control. Limited visual feedback also adds challenges in building a complete agent.
  • Application Developer
    10B+ USD
    Transportation
    Review Source

    End-to-End Project Execution Improved, Occasional Model Limitations

    5.0
    Jan 22, 2026
    Cursor has significantly improved the productivity at work. We love the AI agent and their capabilities. Large projects are much better managed and cursor does a great job at code stages like testing deployment and production debugging too. We love the fact that Cursor has great understanding of our architecture once fed with the right information, it is able to manage large projects end to end with little to no guidance from senior devs.
  • PRINCIPAL DATA ENGINEER
    1B-10B USD
    Travel and Hospitality
    Review Source

    AI Features in Cursor IDE Lead to Advanced AI Code Generation and Collaboration

    4.0
    Nov 4, 2025
    Cursor experience has been amazing AI Vibe coding editor that we have onboarded in our company more than 6 months ago. Being the first AI-native IDEs, it is way ahead in bringing new features and the UX, code suggestions and agent works way better than others. The recent multi-agent interface is just amazing; allowing our devs to use multiple agents in parallel and then pick the best solution. Sandbox terminal is also quite handy in saving time in writing and running commands manually. Our front-end developers are loving the browser integration. for debugging.
  • SR DATA ARCHITECT
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    AI IDE that accelerates coding

    4.0
    Sep 18, 2025
    Cursor is a refreshing upgrade compared to traditional IDEs. AI tightly coupled into the workflow. For application development, especially when juggling multiple frameworks or shifting between front-end and backend. Cursor speeds up prototyping and reduces the grind of boilerplate coding. It does take a bit longer, and projects still need human oversight to maintain structure and best practices. But overall it has been a serious productivity booster for my teams.
  • DIRECTOR
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Autonomy And Code Navigation Enhanced In Cursor, Edit Suggestions Cause Confusion

    4.0
    Nov 3, 2025
    I love how cursor breaks down its approach and allows me to add custom context prompts. this gives me the autonomy my modus operandi so that i dont have to reinsert a gigantic prompt every time. namely about always keeping SOLID and DRY principles in mind
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