AI Tool Profile

Cursor

An editor with coding agents, model selection and repository context.

Before you buy

Best for: Creators editing real web projects who can review code and control model spending.

Price: US/USD: new X Subscription Premium US$30/month; third-party models extra

Included: Premium includes Cursor cloud agents and automations plus a shared first-party usage pool; it is not unlimited Claude or GPT access.

Main limits: Claude and GPT use prepaid Additional Usage from the first use on the new bundle. Existing Cursor plans can have different entitlements; account unification is permanent.

What Kingy showed: The October 12 Cursor 3.23.23 cart-repair pilot produced two artifacts that each passed 24/24 fixed checks, using Grok 4.7 High and Sonnet 5.5 High.

Buying details checked 2026-10-22 with region and currency stated above. Historical demonstrations and the broader fact ledger keep their own dates.

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Before you choose · Build a useful app

Cursor: workflow and access check

Edit and test a beginner app in an existing codebase.

Scope
Cursor Agent and selected model
Source check
Next review
Maintenance owner
Kingy AI editorial (Curtis Pyke)

Review due · Official-source review; no new hands-on test

This review covers the notes below. Earlier prices, tests and Product Facts retain their original dates.

Cursor documents Agent using file editing, search and terminal tools. Its checkpoints are local and separate from Git; Cursor recommends Git for permanent version control. Cursor Agent documentation

Check before choosing: Record the selected model and plan, keep a durable version-control checkpoint, and rerun the app’s checks after edits.

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Review scope and source notes

Earlier article text, prices, tests and Product Facts keep their original dates and scope. This check covers only the cited notes here; it does not refresh the whole profile or its machine-readable facts.

Checked by: Codex-assisted official-source review. Task fit is editorial guidance. Test the exact plan, model and route with your own fixture.

Commercial relationship: Not established by this source review. Existing article disclosures still apply.

Maintenance history

  • 2026-09-20 · source recheck · Source recheck
Detailed profileSoftwareProfile source check: 2026-08-09

Coverage describes this profile, not a product score or a current price guarantee.

Kingy AI Product Facts

Cursor

Current statusUnknown

Company
Not yet reviewed
Primary job
Understand codebases, plan and build features, fix bugs, and review code changes.
Audience
Not yet reviewed
Free plan
Available
Evidence
Source-backed; review due
Latest source check
October 23, 2026
See all tracked product factsPricing, platforms, dependencies, data claims, regions, and timeline

Sources and checks

Coverage
10 of 87 tracked fields currently verified
Sources
5

Source-check dates apply to the tracked facts. Editorial updates elsewhere on this page may have a different date.

Plans and pricing units

  • Hobby (legacy) Price not listed in this summary; check the official pricing source. Consumer account
  • Pro (legacy) Price not listed in this summary; check the official pricing source. Consumer account
  • Teams Standard (legacy) Price not listed in this summary; check the official pricing source. Team account

Where it runs

Cli
Available
Linux
Available
Macos
Available
Windows
Available

Stack and integrations

Model / provider dependencies
Not yet reviewed
Integrations
Not yet reviewed

Data and regions

Vendor data-use claim
Not yet reviewed
Vendor retention claim
Not yet reviewed
Regions
Not yet reviewed

Launch and latest material update

Launch
Not yet reviewed
Latest material update
Not yet reviewed
Review history
  1. Cursor — Verification refreshed

    Kingy reconfirmed the published facts against the cited sources.

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  2. Cursor — Verification refreshed

    Kingy reconfirmed the published facts against the cited sources.

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  3. Cursor — Verification refreshed

    Kingy reconfirmed the published facts against the cited sources.

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  4. Cursor — Verification refreshed

    Kingy reconfirmed the published facts against the cited sources.

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  5. Cursor — Product Facts updated

    Kingy published an approved change to this Product Facts record.

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  6. Cursor — Product Facts updated

    Kingy published an approved change to this Product Facts record.

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  7. Cursor — Product Facts updated

    Kingy published an approved change to this Product Facts record.

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  8. Cursor — Verification refreshed

    Kingy reconfirmed the published facts against the cited sources.

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Technical evidence and revision history
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Which plan is worth considering

US/USD: new X Subscription Premium US$30/month; third-party models extra. Premium includes Cursor cloud agents and automations plus a shared first-party usage pool; it is not unlimited Claude or GPT access.

Limits that affect the purchase

Claude and GPT use prepaid Additional Usage from the first use on the new bundle. Existing Cursor plans can have different entitlements; account unification is permanent. The bundle has a limited free tier. The tested continuing Pro account cost US$20/month; its zero extra charge is not a new-bundle price promise. This profile evaluates the editor workflow, not an included model API balance. Review current cloud-agent API and billing terms separately.

What the existing demonstration shows

The October 12 Cursor 3.23.23 cart-repair pilot produced two artifacts that each passed 24/24 fixed checks, using Grok 4.7 High and Sonnet 5.5 High. There was one completed run per model, with separate fresh repositories and no repair prompts. Durations were Cursor displays, not independently measured inference latency. This describes the dated retained Kingy record, not a new product test. See the retained Kingy demonstration.

Sources and buying-review date

Buying details checked October 22, 2026. Plan research uses current official sources; demonstration descriptions use the retained Kingy record and any captured creator chapters. No new subscription, paid generation or checkout was performed. The buying-review date does not renew every claim in the broader facts ledger.

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Earlier profile and dated source history

The earlier record below keeps its own dates and scope.

Kingy Product Passport · source-bound profile

Cursor

Cursor’s key buying boundary is not simply which models it exposes. Price, included usage, Privacy Mode, provider retention and the Cursor request path all depend on the plan and model route.

Source-only assessment. Kingy has not hands-on tested this product.
KAI-PAS-006Verified 2026-08-09Vendor claims human-approvedKingy testing: not yet tested

Decision snapshot

Cursor’s key buying boundary is not simply which models it exposes. Price, included usage, Privacy Mode, provider retention and the Cursor request path all depend on the plan and model route.

Use this record when

Use this Passport to check the exact plan, Privacy Mode posture and request path before an organization adopts Cursor or enables a non-ZDR model.

Boundary

Cursor subscriptions, controls and documented routing only. Model-provider terms, enterprise overrides and hands-on shell or agent behavior remain separate.

Approved source-bound claims

pricing

October 20, 2026 plan-identity correction: Cursor now lists Free, Plus, Premium, Super, Ultra, Teams and Enterprise under The X Subscription. Hobby, Pro and Teams Standard are legacy Cursor plans for existing subscribers. Those legacy plans continue unless the subscriber changes or cancels; switching is optional and permanent. The legacy plans and the new tiers have different usage and billing terms. This check establishes plan identities and their documented distinction, not account-specific eligibility or a hands-on usage test.

Scope: Cursor subscription product · Evidence: cursor-pricing

privacy

Privacy clarification, source-checked October 22, 2026: With Privacy Mode enabled, Cursor says it does not use customer data for training and maintains zero-data-retention agreements with model providers. Abuse detection can still lead to investigation storage under the relevant retention policies. Models without zero-data-retention terms must be identified as such or require administrator opt-in.

With Privacy Mode off, Cursor says it may store and use codebase data, prompts, snippets and editor actions to improve AI features and train models. Some inference providers may temporarily store inputs and outputs to improve inference performance. Check the active setting and your organization’s policy before sharing proprietary code.

Scope: Cursor’s documented Privacy Mode conditions; Kingy has not audited data handling. Source: Data Use & Privacy Overview. This clarification does not refresh the other review claims.

architecture

Cursor says requests, including bring-your-own-key requests, still pass through Cursor infrastructure for final prompt construction before reaching model providers.

Scope: Cursor request path; provider treatment remains separate · Evidence: cursor-data-use

Evidence gaps

  • No Kingy agent/shell permission test.
  • Model roster and exact included usage remain dynamic.
  • Enterprise overrides remain contract-specific.

Official sources

Freshness and corrections

Source checked 2026-08-09. Kingy has not hands-on tested this product. Corrections are handled through the existing Kingy editorial process.

Current desktop availability

Cursor’s official download page says its desktop app is available for macOS, Windows and Linux. The same page lists Windows x64 and ARM64 installers, plus Linux .deb, RPM and AppImage downloads for ARM64 and x64.

Cursor download page is the installation route. This update does not assert plan pricing, included usage or currency.

Where Cursor runs, and what the free plan establishes

Cursor is a coding agent for understanding a codebase, planning and building features, fixing bugs and reviewing changes. Its installation guide lists macOS 12 Monterey or later, Windows 10 or later, and Linux installation routes. The macOS build supports Apple Silicon and Intel. Linux users have Debian/Ubuntu, RHEL/Fedora and AppImage routes; this check does not establish one minimum version for every Linux distribution.

Cursor CLI is a terminal access route for writing, reviewing and modifying code. It has interactive and non-interactive modes. An available access route does not establish unlimited usage or entitlement for every account.

The current pricing page lists Free, Plus, Premium, Super, Ultra, Teams and Enterprise. The legacy-plan documentation identifies Hobby as the free legacy plan, Pro as a legacy individual plan, and Standard as a legacy Teams seat. They are not the same subscriptions as the new Free, Premium or Teams Premium tiers. Existing legacy subscribers keep their plan, price and features unless they change or cancel. A move to The X Subscription is optional and permanent.

Plan identities and this distinction were checked October 20, 2026 against the official pricing and legacy-plan documentation. The earlier installation and CLI review dates are unchanged. Legacy plans use two monthly usage pools; The X Subscription uses a weekly pool for Cursor models shared with Grok, with third-party model usage billed separately on eligible tiers. See Models & Pricing for current terms. Kingy has not independently tested installation, code quality, task completion or the cost of a successful coding task.

Alternatives

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Launch History

AI Coding Tools

Cursor 1.0 with BugBot and Background Agent GA

Cursor shipped version 1.0 with BugBot for AI code review, Background Agent availability, memories, one-click MCP setup, Jupyter support, and broader AI-native IDE workflow upgrades.

Recheck due Free: Yes API: No Open: No
Beginner-friendlyBusiness-friendlyDeveloper-friendlyTraction signal

A priority AI coding record because Cursor 1.0 marked the shift from autocomplete to delegated development, review, memory, and agent workflows inside the IDE.

Kingy coverage

Kingy AI articles about Cursor, newest first.

  1. BlogDid Cursor Just Kill GitHub? Inside Origin’s Bid to Rebuild Code Hosting for AI Agents
  2. BlogGrok 4.6: 500K xAI API vs. 256K Cursor Context, Price and Benchmarks
  3. NewsCursor Wants to Stop Being Just an AI Coding App. Now It’s Acting Like a Frontier Lab
  4. NewsBest AI Coding Agent in 2026: Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenCode?
  5. NewsThe AI Coding Agent Guide for Non-Developers: How to Build Websites, Apps, Automations, and Tools With Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, and Other AI Coding Agents
  6. NewsCursor /automate Explained: What the New Automation Skill Means for AI Coding Agents
  7. NewsAman Sanger, Cursor, and the $60 Billion AI Coding Deal That Just Made Silicon Valley Blink
  8. NewsSpaceX’s $60 Billion Cursor Deal: Why Elon Musk Is Betting Big on AI Coding
More coverage (5)
  1. NewsCursor SDK guide: TypeScript and Python, with clear test limits
  2. NewsCursor / Cursor SDK vs. Claude Code vs. Codex: The Deepest Practical Comparison of Modern AI Coding Tools
  3. NewsCursor AI’s $200 Pricing Rug Pull Has Developers Fleeing to Competitors
  4. NewsCursor 1.0 Review: The AI-First Code Editor Comes of Age
  5. NewsAI Coding Agents in 2025: Cursor vs. Windsurf vs. Copilot vs. Claude vs. VS Code AI