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AI-first code editor (VS Code fork) with agentic coding, chat, and multi-line autocomplete across your codebase.
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FindThatSoftware verdictEditorial ruling
For Indian developers and small teams, Cursor is one of the most capable AI editors, but it is priced in USD (Pro from $20/user/mo, with a higher-priced Teams tier) so you pay a forex premium and, on paid business plans, GST considerations apply. The free Hobby tier is a genuine way to try it before paying, though heavy agent use can push you toward usage-based charges. Verify current pricing and request limits on cursor.com/pricing before committing, as Cursor's plans and quotas change frequently.
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Should you use Cursor?
Use it if developers who want AI agents integrated directly into a VS Code-style editor. Avoid it if teams needing a fully free, self-hosted or on-prem coding assistant.
Spec sheet
- Starting price
- ₹1,985/mo$20/user/mo sticker
- Free plan
- Available
- Free trial
- Not listed
- Status
- Curated 29 Jul 2026
- Source trail
- 2 public sources
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Cursor is a developer & data / developer tools for Indian buyers. All-in it runs about ₹1,985/mo for a GST-registered business ($20/user/mo sticker plus about 3.5% card forex). It does not issue an India GST invoice, so a registered business reclaims the GST via reverse charge. FindThatSoftware rates it best for developers who want AI agents integrated directly into a VS Code-style editor, and a poor fit if teams needing a fully free, self-hosted or on-prem coding assistant.
The trade-off, weighed
What you gain, and what you give up.
The case for
- Deep, agentic AI integration into a familiar VS Code interface
- Codebase-aware context, multi-file edits, and MCP/skills support
- Free Hobby tier plus access to multiple frontier models
- Strong reputation and rapid feature velocity among AI editors
The catch
- USD pricing adds a forex premium for India buyers
- Heavy agent usage can trigger usage-based charges beyond the flat plan
- Plans, quotas, and request limits change often, making cost hard to predict
True India price
Registered business, per month
₹1,985
Cursor advertises $20/mo. A GST-registered business in India pays about ₹1,985 a month (₹23,817/yr) once the roughly 3.5% card forex markup is added, with GST reclaimed as input credit. If you cannot reclaim GST, it is about ₹2,342 a month.
- Sticker price
- $20/mo
- Card forex markup
- about 3.5% over mid-market
- GST
- 18%, reclaimable if registered
- Registered per month
- ₹1,985
- Registered per year
- ₹23,817
- If you can't reclaim GST
- ₹2,342
- Try first
- Has a free plan, so you can start without a card.
Indicative, not a bill. The exchange rate is a single mid-market reference, not a live feed, and GST-registered businesses may reclaim input credit. Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.
Full India pricing breakdownIndia readiness
How well Cursor fits an Indian business operationally, from the verified pricing and company facts we hold.
- ✗GST invoice
No Indian GST invoice, so a registered business cannot claim input tax credit on the bill.
- ✗Bills in INR
Priced in a foreign currency, so your card or bank adds forex conversion on top.
- ✗India HQ
Headquartered outside India, so check support hours and India-specific features.
How Cursor compares
Against the 2 other ai coding assistant toolswe list, from what we verified on each vendor’s own pages.
Also in most alternatives
Recorded for at least half of the 2 others, and for Cursor.
- Audit log
- Parallel agent fleets
This compares only the capabilities enough rival tools share for a comparison to mean anything — roughly a quarter of what we verified. The full list is under “What we verified” below, and anything absent from both is something we did not record rather than something the product lacks.
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Audit my stackOverview
What is Cursor?
Cursor is an AI-powered code editor built as a fork of VS Code, adding an in-editor Agent that can plan and make multi-file changes, a Composer for larger edits, codebase-aware chat, and predictive autocomplete. It supports frontier models and MCP integrations, and targets developers who want an AI assistant deeply wired into the editing loop rather than a sidebar plugin.
Best for
- Developers who want AI agents integrated directly into a VS Code-style editor
- Small engineering teams doing multi-file, codebase-aware edits
- Individuals comfortable with USD subscriptions wanting frontier-model coding
Who should avoid it
- Teams needing a fully free, self-hosted or on-prem coding assistant
- Buyers who must avoid USD billing and want INR-native invoicing
What Cursor does
What we verified about Cursor
Read from Cursor’s own pages. Each line is a finding and what it was based on, so you can check any of it yourself.
Features we confirmed38
- Service accounts
- Enterprise plan includes service accounts alongside audit logging
- Scim provisioning
- Enterprise adds SCIM seat management for provisioning
- Parallel agent fleets
- Site describes launching fleets of agents working in parallel for hours or days
- Mobile app
- Product nav lists Mobile, with a blog post on building from anywhere with Cursor for iOS
- Extension marketplace
- Product nav links a Marketplace and Teams get an internal marketplace for rules, skills and plugins
- Audit log
- Enterprise tier lists audit logs and service accounts
- Agentic code review
- Bugbot performs agentic code reviews on pull requests, included from the Teams plan
- Agentic multi file edits
- The in-editor Agent plans and makes changes across multiple files rather than single completions
- AI code editor
- Cursor is a desktop code editor built as a VS Code fork with AI wired into the editing loop
- AI code tracking API
- Enterprise lists an AI code tracking API for measuring AI-written code
- Bring your own model
- shadcn testimonial names bring-your-own-model among the things well put together
- Cli agent
- Cursor CLI runs the same agent from the terminal via a curl install script
- Cloud agents
- Cloud agents use their own computers to build, test and demo features end to end
- Codebase aware chat
- Chat has context over the whole repository, backed by secure codebase indexing and semantic search
- Composer model
- Even the free Hobby tier lists access to Composer, Cursor's own coding model
- Cursor rules
- Interface demo shows a task setting up Cursor Rules for a dashboard project
- Custom skills
- Skills are listed alongside MCPs and hooks on every paid individual plan
- Github actions integration
- CLI page documents integrating with GitHub Actions for automated CI/CD workflows
- Google workspace plugins
- Changelog entry dated Aug 3 2026 announces Google Workspace Plugins
- Headless scripting
- Docs cover using Cursor CLI headlessly inside scripts and automation workflows
- Hooks
- Pro tier explicitly includes hooks for customising agent behaviour
- Inline edit command
- Karpathy quote describes Cmd+K for targeted edits versus full agentic autonomy
- Ipad support
- Changelog entry dated Jul 29 2026 announces Cursor now on iPad
- Mcp support
- Paid plans list MCPs, skills and hooks, and automations let you add tools or MCPs
- Multi model choice
- Model picker offers Grok, GPT, Fable, Opus, Gemini and Composer variants
- Network and browser controls
- Enterprise adds auto-run, browser and network controls for agent safety
- Plan mode
- Interface demo shows a Plan step that produces a task breakdown before building
- Predictive autocomplete
- Multi-line context-aware completions are a core published research capability
- Privacy mode
- Privacy mode guarantees code data is not used for training by Cursor or its model providers
- Pull request review
- Site says Cursor reviews PRs in GitHub as part of the workflow
- Repository access controls
- Enterprise offers repository, model and MCP access controls
- Scheduled automations
- Automations set up always-on agents that run on schedules or triggers
- Shell command execution
- Shell Mode runs shell commands from agents with safety checks and output display
- Slack agent
- Cursor for Slack answers @cursor mentions in a channel and opens a PR
- Sso saml oidc
- Teams plan lists SAML and OIDC single sign-on
- Team shared rules library
- Teams plan includes a team marketplace for internal rules, skills and plugins
- Team wide privacy enforcement
- Teams plan lets an admin enable privacy mode across the whole team
- Usage analytics dashboard
- Teams plan includes usage analytics to understand team behaviour via an admin dashboard
What people use it for3
- Pass a security audit
- CLI scripting examples include triggering security reviews
- Fix ci failures
- Automation example is literally an always-on agent that fixes CI failures on main
- Write features end to end
- Agents are pitched as taking a task from idea to reviewable code without hand-holding
Works with7
- Slack
- Cursor for Slack lets teammates mention the agent in a channel and get a PR back
- Openai
- Model picker offers frontier OpenAI models including GPT-5.6
- Google workspace
- Changelog announces Google Workspace Plugins as a shipped integration
- Google gemini
- Gemini 3.1 Pro appears in the Cursor model selector
- Github
- Cursor reviews pull requests in GitHub and integrates with GitHub Actions
- Claude
- Model list includes Anthropic models such as Opus 5 and Fable 5
- Grok
- Grok 4.5 is a first-class model option with its own nav entry
Terms, compliance and how you buy28
- Us company
- Footer copyright reads Anysphere, Inc, a US entity
- Taxes excluded from price
- FAQ states all prices are exclusive of any applicable taxes
- Soc2 certified
- Site footer carries a SOC 2 Certified badge
- Self serve signup
- You download the editor and pay by card without talking to sales on Individual and Teams
- Monthly or annual billing
- Pricing page carries a monthly and yearly toggle
- Invoice billing enterprise only
- Invoice and PO billing is listed only under the Enterprise tier
- Developer oriented
- Every surface, CLI, IDE, PR review, targets software engineers rather than business users
- Card only on self serve
- Self-serve plans support cards only, invoice and wire require the Enterprise plan
- Cloud dependent
- Agents, indexing and models all run through Cursor's service rather than locally
- Community forum support
- Support is a public forum and an email address, with priority support gated to Enterprise
- Enterprise adoption
- Site claims trust from over half the Fortune 500 and quotes NVIDIA's 40,000 engineers
- Free tier
- Hobby plan is free with no credit card and limited Agent requests
- Frequent plan changes
- Our research warns plans and quotas change frequently, so verify before committing
- Hindi localised site
- Language switcher includes Hindi alongside Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and others
- Macos download first
- Primary call to action is Download for macOS on both the homepage and footer
- No INR billing
- Indian buyers pay a forex premium since Cursor issues no INR invoice on self-serve plans
- No on premise option
- Our research flags that teams needing self-hosted or on-prem assistants should look elsewhere
- No resellers allowed
- FAQ states subscriptions are sold only through cursor.com and reseller accounts may be terminated
- Per seat pricing
- Teams is priced at 40 dollars per user per month
- Rapid release cadence
- Changelog shows four distinct product launches within a two-week window
- Research lab positioning
- Company describes itself as an applied research team publishing model technical reports
- Student program
- Footer carries a dedicated Students link under Company
- Tiered usage multipliers
- Pro+ gives 3x and Ultra 20x the Pro limits on Agent rather than new features
- Transparent public pricing
- Individual at 20 dollars and Teams at 40 dollars per user are published on the pricing page
- Unpredictable cost
- Our research notes plans, quotas and request limits change often making cost hard to predict
- Usage based overage
- Every plan includes a set model usage amount, with on-demand usage billed in arrears
- Usd billed
- All plans are quoted in US dollars with no rupee option
- Vs code familiar
- Built as a VS Code fork so existing extensions and muscle memory carry over
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Does Cursor give a GST invoice in India?
Cursor does not issue an India GST invoice. A GST-registered business can still reclaim the 18% through the reverse-charge route by raising a self-invoice, but there is no vendor GST invoice to claim against directly.
Is Cursor good for Indian small businesses?
Cursor can work for Indian buyers, but check currency, tax, billing, support, and whether the workflow justifies foreign-currency pricing.
Does Cursor have a free plan?
Cursor lists a free plan, but check the official pricing page for current usage limits before choosing it.
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