Cursor vs Kiro
Cursor (Anysphere (owned by SpaceX)) and Kiro (Amazon Web Services) side by side on public data, as of Oct 10, 2026.
Cursor has 7.6x the GitHub stars of Kiro (33.3K against 4,356).
Which should you choose?
Choose Cursor if
- you want to use your own model API key
- you prefer the more widely used tool, with more docs and answers around (Gid Score 72 against 48)
Built from documented features, official prices, status pages and usage data on this page; it does not judge output quality.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | Cursor | Kiro |
|---|---|---|
| Gid Score | 72 | 48 |
| Overall rank | #12 | #73 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | — | — |
| Downloads, 7-day change | — | — |
| Downloads, 30-day change | — | — |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 33.3K | 4,356 |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | 4,013 | 497 |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 237 | 15 |
| Latest stable release | — | — |
| Stable releases, 90 days | ||
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Free + $20/mo | Free + $20/mo |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| First released | March 2023 | July 2025 |
| Interfaces | Desktop IDE, CLI, Web, Mobile, Slack, GitHub, Linear, API/SDK | Desktop IDE, CLI, Web, Mobile, Desktop app |
| 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. | Auto (a mix of frontier models) plus selectable Anthropic Claude (Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Fable 5.1), OpenAI GPT-5.6 and open-weight models such as DeepSeek, MiniMax, GLM and Qwen. |
Trends
Cursor
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.
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.
Kiro
AWS's agentic IDE built around spec-driven development, with a CLI, Kiro Web for cloud sessions, a mobile app and the open-source Kiro Crew workspace. AWS positions it as the replacement for Amazon Q Developer's IDE plugins.
Pricing: Free $0 (50 credits); Pro $20/mo (1,000 credits); Pro+ $40/mo (2,000); Pro Max $100/mo (5,000); Power $200/mo (10,000); add-on credits $0.04 each; Enterprise via sales.
Cursor vs Kiro: common questions
Which is more popular, Cursor or Kiro?
Cursor has a Gid Score of 72 against 48 for Kiro. The score combines package downloads, editor installs, GitHub activity and attention, updated daily.