How popular is Cursor?

As of Jul 7, 2026, Cursor routes about 12.6B tokens per day through OpenRouter — the #5 tracked AI coding tool by that measure.

How much does Cursor cost?

Cursor's paid plans start at $20/month (Individual), with a free tier available, per its pricing page captured Jul 8, 2026. Plan changes are tracked over time on this page.

What are the best alternatives to Cursor?

By OpenRouter usage, the closest alternatives are Codex, Zoo Code, and Zed. Head-to-head comparisons are linked in the alternatives table.

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Cursor

homepage pricing changelog github

OpenRouter rank

of 16 tracked tools

Tokens / day

12.6B

snapshot Jul 7, 2026

Requests / day

124,999

OpenRouter, summed

Usage

OpenRouter token volume

latest Jul 7, 2026

source: OpenRouter app rankings · summed across the tool's apps · daily

12.6B on Jul 7, 2026

Pricing

Subscription plans

Latest captured subscription plans for Cursor.
Plan	$/mo	Notes
Hobby	$0	No credit card required · Limited Agent requests · Limited Tab completions
Individual	$20	Includes Pro, Pro+, and Ultra tiers · Bugbot on usage-based billing · Extended limits on Agent
Teams	$40	Per user pricing · Includes Standard and Premium tiers · Centralized team billing and administration · SAML/OIDC SSO
Enterprise	—	Custom pricing, contact sales · Invoice/PO billing · SCIM seat management · Pooled usage

source: cursor.com/pricing

captured Jul 8, 2026

Change history

no plan changes detected yet — changes appear here the day the pricing page moves

Changelog

Releases

changelog feed pending — releases appear after the next ingest

source: cursor.com/changelog

Adoption

GitHub & package growth

GitHub stars

source: github.com/getcursor/cursor

33,015 stars · Jul 8, 2026

Package downloads/day

no package registry tracked for this entity

Community

Reddit pulse

30-day · to Jul 8, 2026

Mentions/day

Sentiment split

What's keeping people from switching to Cursor on July 7th?r/ClaudeCode · 0 pts
Cancelled my Copilot subscription to go to Cursorr/GithubCopilot · 10 pts
Cursor must-do best practices - Redditr/ · — pts

source: Reddit mentions across coding subreddits · sentiment auto-classified

latest Jul 8, 2026

Benchmarks

Benchmark results

Benchmark scores for Cursor.
Benchmark	Configuration	Score	Date	Source
no benchmark results attributed to Cursor yet

scores as published by each benchmark; configurations differ — compare within a row's benchmark only

Alternatives

Similar tools

Alternatives to Cursor by OpenRouter usage-rank proximity.
#	Tool	Tokens/day	7d Δ	Head-to-head
19	CodexOpenAI	12B	—	vs Cursor
25	Zoo CodeZoo Code (community)	9B	—	vs Cursor
28	ZedZed Industries	8.4B	—	vs Cursor
7	piEarendil Works (Mario Zechner)	50.8B	—	vs Cursor

ranked by OpenRouter usage-rank proximity

snapshot Jul 7, 2026

FAQ

Cursor FAQ

How popular is Cursor?: As of Jul 7, 2026, Cursor routes about 12.6B tokens per day through OpenRouter — the #5 tracked AI coding tool by that measure.
How much does Cursor cost?: Cursor's paid plans start at $20/month (Individual), with a free tier available, per its pricing page captured Jul 8, 2026. Plan changes are tracked over time on this page.
What are the best alternatives to Cursor?: By OpenRouter usage, the closest alternatives are Codex, Zoo Code, and Zed. Head-to-head comparisons are linked in the alternatives table.

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