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Anysphere

Cursor

Coding environment with IDE and CLI agents, cloud execution, shared project context, code review, and enterprise controls.

IDECLICloudWebMobileCode reviewActiveProprietaryBYOKMCP Yes

Recent product updates

Reviewed

Selected releases and additions, with links to the original announcements.

Cursor Projects enters beta

A cloud coordinator plans work, delegates implementation, and shares context across agents. Projects can also respond to schedules and connected events. Availability began rolling out in beta.

1.1M

Attributed output

GitHub public-attribution count, 2026-06-09

#3

Index rank · all agents

#3 of 40 CLI agents

$4B

Business signal

Reported annualized revenue · Jun 2026

Free Hobby / $20+ Individual

Entry price

Subscription and model usage

Not published

GitHub stars

No public repo

Not published

npm demand/wk

Public npm counter

From the public record

What the public PRs reveal

452 PRs · 335 repositories

Search window: – · captured Oct 14, 2026 (UTC)

Cursor-attributed work gets CodeRabbit follow-ups

Separate study: CodeRabbit follow-ups, May 25–October 11, 2026

In CodeRabbit’s May 25–October 11 audit, we found 12 original PRs crediting Cursor, followed by 15 CodeRabbit auto-fix PRs; 11 follow-ups were merged. This cohort was selected through CodeRabbit, so it cannot tell us what fraction of this agent’s overall work receives follow-up fixes. Credits can name a model without identifying its client.

Specific work you can inspect

millionco/react-doctor: “feat(rules): add UI-library composition and correctness rules behind capability gates” (merged). rmcrackan/Libation: “Add HasSubtitle and TitleHasColon search fields” (merged).

This is a sample of publicly attributed work, not total usage or a market-share estimate. Repositories are not customers. Attribution is declared in metadata, not independently verified tool execution; it does not prove exclusive authorship or autonomy. PR status is recorded at capture; merged does not establish correctness.

Method and audit data

Up to 100 most recently created search results in each of five consecutive 28-day windows; post-filtered for attribution in the PR body, bot author, or Codex branch. Not a random or exhaustive sample.

Returned records dated Jun 21, 2026–Oct 11, 2026.

Download the dated audit evidence (JSON)

Activity Over Time

Weekly attributed output on public GitHub. Output visible through the agent's own bot or workflow is exact; output measured through declared attribution is an estimate. Window: 2025-02-03 to 2026-10-12. The dashed span marks weeks when the vendor's attribution defaults were still changing, so commit levels there reflect how much work was signed, not how much work happened.

Market

Developer output

1.1M

Public GitHub commits attributed to Cursor

Cursor's background agent declares attribution; its editor-driven edits land under the developer's identity and are invisible, so this is a floor. Cursor began attributing this work in early 2026 (almost nothing before February), so the series reflects that rollout rather than a sudden change in usage.

Last full week (ending 2026-10-18): 382K signed commits (+6.1% week over week), search estimate.

Distinct users: 3,944 humans opened the 12,600 most recently sampled PRs, about 3.2 PRs per person.

Merge rate: 71.1% of its pull requests get merged (574,247 of 807,888 over 8 settled weeks, 2026-08-10 to 2026-10-04). The window ends about ten days back so recently-opened PRs have had time to merge.

GitHub review activity: 6.9% of its merged PRs had at least one GitHub review record before merging; the other 93.1% had none. This is a broad weekly signal and can include bot reviews; the human-review read below comes from the enriched PR sample.

In significant repos (company-owned or 10+ stars), 77.8% of its merged PRs got a human review. Across all sampled repos, the rate is 35.8%. Human review means a non-author, non-bot GitHub reviewer in the PR-lifecycle sample.

Median time to merge: 1.02 h. The unreviewed median is 0.64h. The human-reviewed median is 1.84h. From a 120-PR sample merged 2026-07-30 to 2026-08-28.

Test-inclusion: 55.8% of its sampled merged PRs touch a test file. This is a rough read on production readiness. 2 large PRs hit GitHub's 100-file path read cap, so treat this as a floor.

Flow share: 1.8% of the 1999 most recent public PRs sampled (36 PRs, 2 windows, last 2026-09-27).

Task lens: 614K agent-opened PRs. Background-agent pull requests carrying hosted task metadata. Editor work opens PRs under the developer and is invisible.

Snapshot 2026-06-09, confidence Medium, tracked since 2026-06-09. Read the methodology.

Index rank · all agents
#3 of 47 · #3 among CLI agents
Demand share
No public npm package
GitHub share
No public repo
npm channel
No public npm package

Best fit

AI-first IDE workflowsEnterprise IDE rolloutMulti-model teamsBackground agents
  • On June 16, 2026 SpaceX agreed to acquire Cursor (Anysphere) for $60B in an all-stock deal, days after SpaceX's IPO. It exercises the April 2026 option and is expected to close in Q3 2026 pending regulatory approval.
  • Revenue roughly doubled in three months to about $4B (Forbes, June 2026), up from a reported ~$2B in February 2026; the strongest standalone IDE revenue signal in the index.
  • About 700 employees; Cursor says it serves 60% of the Fortune 500 (June 2026).
  • SpaceX was a training-compute partner before the acquisition: it supplies Colossus compute to scale Cursor's Composer models (announced April 2026) and plans to ship the jointly trained model in Cursor and xAI's Grok Build.
  • Composer, Cursor's own coding models, are built on Moonshot open models; Cursor says Composer 2.5 (May 2026) is over 85% its own work, part of a push to cut reliance on frontier labs and control pricing.
  • The strategy is a response to Anthropic dependence: at one point Cursor was a reported 40-50% of Anthropic's revenue, and Claude Code's launch (over $2.5B run-rate by February 2026) prompted a January 2026 internal push to build in-house models.
All sourced signals (4)Expand

Where Cursor Works

Languages
TypeScript42%
Python21%
JavaScript13%
HTML7%
Rust4%
Go2%
Frameworks
Next.js21%
React17%
Flutter16%
Astro9%
React Native9%
Electron5%
Industries
AI/ML44%
Devtools7%
Gaming7%
Media5%
Crypto/Web35%
Finance5%
Countries
United States of America17%
China10%
United Kingdom9%
Canada6%
India6%
France5%

Share of Cursor's own classified sampled work by segment; countries reflect where its PR authors are based. Full breakdowns: Languages, Frameworks, Industries, Map.

Pricing And Economics

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Pricing snapshot: 2026-09-25. Check the vendor for current terms.

Hobby is free. Individual plans start at $20/month; Teams starts at $40/user/month; Enterprise is custom.

Entry price
Free Hobby / $20+ Individual
Top self-serve price
n/a
Pricing unit
Subscription and model usage
Token transparency
Token rate card
Included usage
Plans include model usage, with additional on-demand usage billed separately.
Overage path
Pro, Pro+, and Ultra have different allowances. Team features and model access depend on the tier.

Retail Token Equivalent

Allowance is not a fixed token entitlement. Consult the linked vendor pricing and your account’s usage limits.

PlanPriceAllowanceUnitToken / Overage Notes
HobbyFreeLimited agent use.Subscription and model usage
Individual$20/moStarting price; Pro, Pro+, and Ultra have different limits.Subscription and model usage
Teams$40/moStarting monthly price per user.Subscription and model usage

Unit Economics (Measured)

Mean API-retail cost per completed task on the Artificial Analysis coding agent index (358 tasks across 3 suites, pass@1 over 3 runs, snapshot 2026-06-09). These are pay-per-token API costs, not subscription effective costs.

HarnessAA indexCost / taskTokens / taskTime / task
Cursor CLI, Composer 2.562.9$0.071.4M9m
Cursor CLI, Composer 2.5 Fast62.9$0.441.6M7m
Cursor CLI, Opus 4.7 (medium)61.2$1.471.5M8m
Cursor CLI, GPT-5.5 (medium)57.8$1.611.5M6m
Cursor CLI, GPT-5.4 (medium)52.2$1.532M8m
Cursor CLI, Composer 248.5$0.071.7M9m

Break-even vs API retail on the top harness (Cursor CLI, Composer 2.5, $0.07/task): Individual at $20/mo covers about 286 tasks; Teams at $40/mo covers about 571 tasks. Assumes the Artificial Analysis task mix.

Summary checked 2026-09-25.

Hobby is free. Individual plans start at $20/month; Teams starts at $40/user/month; Enterprise is custom.

  • Plans include model usage, with additional on-demand usage billed separately.
  • Pro, Pro+, and Ultra have different allowances. Team features and model access depend on the tier.

Company And Funding

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Ownership
Private
Founded
2022
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Employees
~700
Total raised
~$3.4B
Round leads
Accel, Coatue

Founded as Anysphere in 2022 by MIT classmates Michael Truell (CEO), Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark, and Aman Sanger. On June 16, 2026 SpaceX agreed to acquire Cursor for $60B in an all-stock deal, days after SpaceX's IPO and exercising an April 2026 option; the deal is expected to close in Q3 2026 pending regulatory approval. SpaceX had also been a model-training partner, supplying Colossus compute to scale Cursor's Composer models.

Notable investors

Thrive CapitalAndreessen HorowitzAccelCoatueDST GlobalNvidiaAlphabetOpenAI Startup Fund

Enterprise And Security

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SSO / SCIM
Yes
Deployment
Self-hosted
Trains on your code
Not trained on your code
Zero data retention
Yes

Compliance

SOC 2 Type II

Admin controls

SAML SSO / SCIMOrg policiesPrivacy Mode enforcementAdmin dashboard

Cursor added self-hosted machines and team worker pools on September 2, 2026, allowing tool execution inside customer infrastructure; this does not establish that model inference is self-hosted. Privacy Mode is on by default for Enterprise teams. Cursor holds zero-data-retention agreements with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Vertex, and xAI; in Privacy Mode no code is stored or used for training.

Product

Providers

OpenAIAnthropicGoogleDeepSeekxAICursor

Model families

AutoGPTClaudeGeminiDeepSeekGrokCursor models

Capabilities

IDE agentCursor Agent CLIBackground agentsSide chatsCloud agent hooksCodebase searchMulti-model routingBYOKMCPBugbotRulesProjects (beta)Security ReviewRolloutsSelf-hosted machines

Tradeoffs

  • Closed-source editor
  • Cost depends heavily on chosen model and context size