Cursor by Anysphere (owned by SpaceX)
Overview
AI coding editor and agent platform with a desktop app, a CLI, web and mobile agents, and cloud agents that run tasks in remote environments. It offers models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, SpaceXAI (Grok) and Meta alongside its own Composer models.
Status: Acquired by SpaceX. Cursor's own announcement that it is joining SpaceX is dated 2026-08-14 and says the process began with a SpaceXAI partnership in April 2026; it does not state a price.
The GitHub repository has 33.3K stars, 99 of them added in the last 30 days. On public GitHub, 91,894 pull requests were opened from branches with Cursor's default cursor/ prefix in the week of Sep 28, 2026, and 74% of the pull requests from the four weeks before that were merged. It was mentioned in 204 Hacker News posts and comments over the last 30 days.
Recent developments
- 2026-08-14: Cursor announced it is joining SpaceX
- 2026-09-10: Launched Projects for long-running multi-agent work.
Cursor usage and attention over time
Download the raw daily series: cursor.csv
Install Cursor
| Homebrew | brew install --cask cursor |
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These commands use the packages tracked on this page. The vendor may recommend a different installer; see the official documentation.
Key facts
| Maker | Anysphere (owned by SpaceX) |
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| Type | AI IDE |
| First released | March 2023 |
| License | Proprietary |
| Interfaces | Desktop IDE, CLI, Web, Mobile, Slack, GitHub, Linear, API/SDK |
| Platforms | macOS, Linux, Windows |
| Models | Models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, SpaceXAI (Grok 4.7/4.6/4.5) and Meta (Muse Spark), plus Cursor's own Composer 2.5. |
| Bring your own API key | Yes |
| Open issues and PRs | 3 |
| Homebrew installs | 2,963 in 30 days · 119,279 in a year |
Pricing
Hobby is free; Pro $20/mo, Pro Plus $60/mo, Ultra $200/mo; Teams $40/user/mo (Standard) or $120/user/mo (Premium); Enterprise is custom; a Start plan for India costs INR 649/mo. Paid plans include usage pools billed at model API rates with on-demand overage.
Source: official pricing page, checked Oct 6, 2026. Prices change often; confirm before you buy.
Pulse Score breakdown
Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.
Pull requests by Cursor on GitHub
In the week of Sep 28, 2026, 91,894 pull requests matching Cursor's signature (head:cursor/) were opened in public repositories; 74% of those opened in the four weeks before were merged. A branch prefix identifies the tool; the pull request itself is usually opened under the developer's own account.
Reliability
From the vendor's public status page · now: All Systems Operational
24 incidents reported in the last 30 days, 6 of them major or critical, 36.9 hours in total from report to resolution.
| Oct 3, 2026 | Investigating service degradation — Grok Bot and Review Agents · minor |
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| Sep 29, 2026 | Investigating service degradation - xAI models · major |
| Sep 29, 2026 | Investigating service degradation — Cloud Agents and Grok Bot · minor |
| Sep 28, 2026 | Investigating service degradation — Grok Bot · minor |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Investigating service degradation — Grok Bot · minor |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Investigating service degradation — Grok Bot · minor |
Cursor alternatives
| # | Agent | Pulse | Downloads 7d | 7d | 30d | VS Code installs | Stars | Latest release | Price | Last 90 days | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 |
GitHub CopilotGitHub (Microsoft) |
70 | — | — | — | 78.6M | — | — | Free + $10/mo | ||
| 19 |
ZedZed Industries |
59 | — | — | — | — | 91.3K+54/day | 1.22.06d ago | Free + $10/mo | ||
| 28 |
WarpWarp |
54 | — | — | — | — | 65.4K+25/day | 0.2026.06.03.…4mo ago | Free + $20/mo | ||
| 36 |
JunieJetBrains |
51 | 318 | down 58.6% | — | — | 469+1/day | 3651.1yesterday | Free + $10/mo | ||
| 44 |
Amazon Q DeveloperAmazon Web Services |
49 | — | — | — | 1.9M | 51 | 2.8.05d ago | Free + $19/mo | ||
| 45 |
KiroAmazon Web Services |
48 | — | — | — | — | 4,353+3/day | — | Free + $20/mo | ||
| No agents match that filter. | |||||||||||
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Cursor FAQ
How much does Cursor cost?
Hobby is free; Pro $20/mo, Pro Plus $60/mo, Ultra $200/mo; Teams $40/user/mo (Standard) or $120/user/mo (Premium); Enterprise is custom; a Start plan for India costs INR 649/mo. Paid plans include usage pools billed at model API rates with on-demand overage.
Is Cursor open source?
No. Cursor is a proprietary product from Anysphere (owned by SpaceX).
How popular is Cursor?
The GitHub repository has 33.3K stars, 99 of them added in the last 30 days. On public GitHub, 91,894 pull requests were opened from branches with Cursor's default cursor/ prefix in the week of Sep 28, 2026, and 74% of the pull requests from the four weeks before that were merged. It was mentioned in 204 Hacker News posts and comments over the last 30 days.
What are the alternatives to Cursor?
The closest alternatives in the same category by Pulse Score are GitHub Copilot, Zed, Warp, Junie.
Where these numbers come from
GitHub: cursor/cursor. Homebrew: cursor. Wikipedia: Cursor (company). Site rank: cursor.com on the Tranco list. See data sources for how each one is collected.
Product facts and pricing were checked against: cursor.com, github.com, en.wikipedia.org, registry.npmjs.org, pypi.org, formulae.brew.sh.