An AI-first fork of VS Code.
Cursor keeps the VS Code editing experience and layers in inline edits, codebase chat and an agent mode. The usual first step up from copy-pasting between a chat window and your editor.
Works with
Key info
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Platform
- macOS · Windows · Linux
- Category
- IDEs
- Best for
- Beginner
- Free plan
- Hobby: a limited number of Agent requests and Tab completions
- Paid plans from
- $20 a month (Pro), including $20 of model usage
- Built on
- A fork of VS Code, so most VS Code extensions work
- Models
- Claude, GPT, Gemini and Cursor's own models
- Your own API key
- Yes: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure and Bedrock
- Local models
- No
- Good for
- Everyday AI coding on any stack
Related reading
- Fundamentals
Reviewing code you did not write
You are going to merge a lot of code you did not type. Reviewing it is a different skill from writing it, and it is the one that actually keeps a vibe-coded…
Intermediate - Context engineering
Why your AI keeps forgetting what you told it
Models have a context window, a fixed budget of text they can consider at once. Everything competes for it: your instructions, the files you opened, the erro…
Intermediate