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| STOA Rating | 8.6 |
| Description | Cursor is an AI-powered code editor built as a fork of VS Code. It supports all your existing VS Code extensions and themes, but adds deep AI capabilities directly into the editing experience. It can read your entire codebase, suggest multi-file edits, and answer questions about how your code works. The free Hobby plan includes 2,000 AI completions and 50 slow premium requests per month. Pro at $20/month gives 500 fast premium requests and unlimited completions. Business at $40/month adds team features and enforced privacy mode. Cursor indexes your full project so you can ask questions like 'Where is the authentication logic?' or refactor entire modules with context across files. |
| AI Features | AI-Powered AI at its core: full-codebase indexing for context-aware completions, Composer mode for multi-file edits via natural language, inline chat for explaining and debugging code, automatic bug detection, and support for GPT-4, Claude models with privacy-first architecture. |
| Categories | Create & Publish Content |
| STOA's Verdict | Cursor is the best AI code editor available for developers and technical teams. VS Code compatibility means zero switching cost, and the codebase-aware AI genuinely saves time writing, refactoring, and debugging. The $20/month Pro plan pays for itself in the first week. Only skip it if nobody on your team writes code. |
