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.
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.
- Cursor Agent documentation — How Agent works; Checkpoints. Checked 2026-09-20.
Maintenance history
- 2026-09-20 · source recheck · Source recheck
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
- Cursor — Verification refreshed
Kingy reconfirmed the published facts against the cited sources.
View published revision - Cursor — Verification refreshed
Kingy reconfirmed the published facts against the cited sources.
View published revision - Cursor — Verification refreshed
Kingy reconfirmed the published facts against the cited sources.
View published revision - Cursor — Verification refreshed
Kingy reconfirmed the published facts against the cited sources.
View published revision - Cursor — Product Facts updated
Kingy published an approved change to this Product Facts record.
View published revision - Cursor — Product Facts updated
Kingy published an approved change to this Product Facts record.
View published revision - Cursor — Product Facts updated
Kingy published an approved change to this Product Facts record.
View published revision - Cursor — Verification refreshed
Kingy reconfirmed the published facts against the cited sources.
View published revision
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.
- Official plans and current offer
- Extra usage and top-ups
- Related Kingy article
- Original Kingy demonstration
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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.
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
- Cursor pricing — Anysphere, captured 2026-08-09
- Cursor data use and privacy — Anysphere, captured 2026-08-09
- Cursor security — Anysphere, captured 2026-08-09
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.
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Launch History
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.
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.
- BlogDid Cursor Just Kill GitHub? Inside Origin’s Bid to Rebuild Code Hosting for AI Agents
- BlogGrok 4.6: 500K xAI API vs. 256K Cursor Context, Price and Benchmarks
- NewsCursor Wants to Stop Being Just an AI Coding App. Now It’s Acting Like a Frontier Lab
- NewsBest AI Coding Agent in 2026: Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenCode?
- 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
- NewsCursor /automate Explained: What the New Automation Skill Means for AI Coding Agents
- NewsAman Sanger, Cursor, and the $60 Billion AI Coding Deal That Just Made Silicon Valley Blink
- NewsSpaceX’s $60 Billion Cursor Deal: Why Elon Musk Is Betting Big on AI Coding
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- NewsCursor 1.0 Review: The AI-First Code Editor Comes of Age
- NewsAI Coding Agents in 2025: Cursor vs. Windsurf vs. Copilot vs. Claude vs. VS Code AI