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According to DevTools Review's hands-on testing across 11 AI coding tools, Cursor's pricing is the most stable thing about the product right now — which is notable, because the company underneath it just changed hands.
Five plans, one that matters
Cursor runs five tiers: Hobby (free, evaluation-only), Pro at $20/month, Pro+ at $60/month, Ultra at $200/month, and Teams at $40/user/month plus an $80/month base fee. For almost every individual developer, Pro is the only tier worth discussing — Pro+ and Ultra buy usage volume (3x and 20x respectively), not capability. You get the same Composer, the same frontier models, the same MCPs/skills/hooks on Pro as you do on Ultra. You're just paying for headroom you probably don't need yet.
Annual billing drops Pro to roughly $16/month ($192/year instead of $240) — the one lever actually worth pulling if you're committed.
The SpaceX acquisition didn't touch pricing
SpaceX closed its $60B all-stock acquisition of Anysphere, Cursor's parent company, on 14 August 2026. Cursor is now a wholly-owned subsidiary inside a division called SpaceXAI. We re-verified pricing after the close and again during this write-up: every tier is exactly where it was before the deal. If you were waiting to see whether new ownership meant a new price, it didn't.
The stale number we found while writing this up
Going back through our own pricing page to check it before syndicating, we caught something: the comparison section still says "Windsurf Pro ($15/mo) undercuts Cursor by $5/month." That was true in the spring. It isn't anymore — Windsurf's Pro tier rose to $20/month when it rebranded to Devin Desktop in June, which our own Windsurf pricing page correctly documents. The two pages on our own site disagreed with each other, and the higher-traffic one (Cursor's) had the wrong number.
The corrected comparison: Cursor Pro ($20/mo) vs. Windsurf Pro ($20/mo) — identical price. There's no longer a cost argument in either direction; it comes down to Composer versus Cascade on the merits. Flagging the fix here rather than quietly using the new number, since the whole point of a pricing page is that the numbers are the thing you can trust.
The rest of the breakdown
Cursor Pro gives you unlimited code completions, 500 fast premium requests a month (Claude Sonnet, GPT-4o, and others), unlimited Cursor Tab, full Composer, and full codebase indexing. Burn through the 500 fast requests and you fall back to 10 slower premium requests a day rather than losing access outright. There's no per-token billing surprise — your subscription covers everything inside the stated limits — and a bring-your-own-key option if you'd rather pay OpenAI or Anthropic directly and skip the request cap entirely.
Against the field: Copilot Pro at $10/month is half the price and wins on GitHub integration; Cursor wins on multi-file editing. Windsurf now costs exactly the same $20 and trades Composer for Cascade. Teams runs $40/user/month plus an $80 base fee, competing against Copilot Business at $19/seat — a gap Cursor Teams has to justify with SSO, admin controls, and enforced privacy mode.
The bottom line
At $20/month, Cursor Pro is still the plan almost every working developer should buy, ownership change and all. Full plan details, the comparison table, and the corrected competitor pricing: https://devtoolsreview.com/pricing/cursor-pricing/
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