Cursor

Who it is for

For developers and individuals. It runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux. License: Proprietary. It is in the DevOps group.

What you pay

Free plan: Free is $0 a month with limited agent requests and limited chat requests. The pricing page does not say the Tab autocomplete requires a paid plan. Plus is $8 a month and the page says only Grok models are included on that plan. Third-party models start at Premium, $30 a month, and are billed at API list price on top of the subscription. Hosted price: Free $0. Plus $8 a month. Premium $30. Super $100. Ultra $200. Teams from $30 a user a month. Annual prices on the models doc are $80, $300, $1,000, and $2,000 a year for Plus, Premium, Super, and Ultra. Third-party model use is extra from Premium. Checked November 10, 2026. It does not run on a computer you control. Cursor is their editor and their service. The pricing page does not offer a server you run.

How to switch

• Compared with Sourcegraph Cody. Its price on file: The pricing page does not print a Cody price. The Enterprise plan Cody's docs say it runs on starts at $16K a year. Cody ends on January 31, 2027.

  What you give up: a saved prompt you can run again, choose which model answers, and keep a chosen repository out of chat and autocomplete. You only get part of: add a file, a symbol, or a repository as context and the same assistant in VS Code and JetBrains.

  Free alternatives to Sourcegraph Cody

How close is it?

A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.

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  Instead of Sourcegraph Cody9 of 9 checked features. A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.What you give up: a saved prompt you can run again, choose which model answers, and keep a chosen repository out of chat and autocomplete. You only get part of: add a file, a symbol, or a repository as context and the same assistant in VS Code and JetBrains.The pricing page includes chat on Free and calls the requests limited. Agent is checked on every plan in the compare table, including Free.The Tab doc says suggestions appear as you type, can cover more than one line, and can be accepted a word at a time. The page does not say Tab requires a paid plan.The Tab doc says a suggestion can change several lines. The CLI starts an agent that can modify code. Agent is included on the free plan.The Tab doc says suggestions use recent edits, surrounding code, and linter errors, and that Tab can point at another file. This check did not open a Cody-style menu for a symbol or a remote repository. The context URL tried here returned 404.The Tab and CLI docs checked here do not describe a saved prompt library. The CLI has Agent, Plan, and Ask modes, which are not saved prompts.Cursor is a separate editor with a macOS, Windows, and Linux CLI install. It is not an extension inside VS Code and not a JetBrains plugin.Free does not list a model picker. Plus is Grok models only. Third-party models start on Premium at $30 a month and are billed separately at API list price.The Tab doc can turn suggestions off for a file type. The pricing table's repository access controls are on the Enterprise row. Neither is Cody's repository filter on the free plan.The CLI doc installs with a shell script on macOS, Linux, and WSL, or PowerShell on Windows, then runs agent in the terminal. It does not say the CLI requires a paid plan.

Related alternatives

DevOps alternatives

• Free alternatives to Bitbucket
• Free alternatives to Conductor
• Free alternatives to GitHub
• Free alternatives to Jules
• Free alternatives to Ollama Cloud
• Free alternatives to Ona

Free apps in this group

• Aider: Terminal pair programming that commits each edit to git.
• Bugsink: A smaller Sentry-compatible error store.
• Cline: An Apache-2.0 coding agent for VS Code and the terminal. No inline autocomplete.
• Continue: An Apache-2.0 IDE assistant. The repository is read-only after the Cursor acquisition.
• cState: A Hugo status page. Incidents are markdown files.
• Devin: The desktop editor formerly sold as Windsurf. Free includes Tab. The code is closed.
• Errbit: An older Airbrake-compatible error catcher.
• Forgejo: A community forge, GPL-3.0 since v9.
• Gatus: A health dashboard with a status page in the config file.
• Gitea: A lightweight Git forge.
• GitHub Copilot: GitHub's coding assistant. Free is capped. The code is not public.
• GitLab Community Edition: The MIT edition of GitLab, without EE.
• GlitchTip: Error tracking compatible with Sentry SDKs.
• Highlight: Session replay and errors, with a split license.
• Kener: A status page with incidents, maintenance, and email subscriptions.
• llama.cpp: LLM inference in C and C++. The license is MIT. llama-server speaks an OpenAI-style API.
• Ollama: Run open models on your own computer. The license is MIT.
• OneUptime: Status pages plus monitors, incidents, and on-call.
• OpenCode: A terminal and desktop coding agent that can open a GitHub pull request.
• OpenHands: Agent Canvas, a self-hosted control center for coding agents.
• Radicle: A peer-to-peer code forge.
• SigNoz: Traces, metrics, and logs in one app.
• SourceHut: Git hosting composed of small services.
• Tabby: A self-hosted completion server. Community is free for up to 5 users.
• Uptime Kuma: Uptime checks, with a public status page of those checks.
• vLLM: An Apache-2.0 model server with an OpenAI-compatible API.

Where we looked

• https://cursor.com/pricing
• https://cursor.com/docs/models-and-pricing
• https://cursor.com/docs/tab
• https://cursor.com/docs/cli
• https://continue.dev/