Cursor vs Warp
Cursor (Anysphere (owned by SpaceX)) and Warp (Warp) side by side on public data, as of Oct 6, 2026.
Warp has 2.0x the GitHub stars of Cursor (65.4K against 33.3K).
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | Cursor | Warp |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Score | 71 | 54 |
| Overall rank | #8 | #28 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | — | — |
| Downloads, 7-day change | — | — |
| Downloads, 30-day change | — | — |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 33.3K | 65.4K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | 2,963 | 2,914 |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 204 | 28 |
| Latest stable release | — | 0.2026.06.03.09.4… · 4mo ago |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 0 | |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | 61.2% · v2.0 |
| Price | Free + $20/mo | Free + $20/mo |
| License | Proprietary | AGPL-3.0-only |
| First released | March 2023 | — |
| Interfaces | Desktop IDE, CLI, Web, Mobile, Slack, GitHub, Linear, API/SDK | Desktop app, CLI |
| 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. | Frontier and open-source models from OpenAI, Anthropic, z.ai and others, with an option to bring your own inference. |
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.
Warp
Rust-based terminal that has grown into an agentic development environment, with a built-in coding agent, a standalone Agent CLI and the Oz cloud-agent platform. Its client was open-sourced in April 2026.
Pricing: Free $0 (bring your own inference, limited cloud agents); Build from $20/mo (1,500 credits, $20 of agent usage at API rates); Max from $200/mo (18,000 credits); Business from $50/user/mo (up to 25 seats); Enterprise custom.
Latest release 0.2026.06.03.09.49.stable:
- Warp Stable release