Since October 12, 2026, Cursor is sold in X subscription tiers: Free, Plus at $8 (Grok models only), Premium at $30, Super at $100 and Ultra at $200 a month, with Teams from $30 a seat. Claude, GPT and Gemini models cost extra at API list price.
Cursor pricing at a glance
Cursor pricing changed completely in October 2026. The AI code editor is now sold inside X subscription plans: Free at $0, Plus at $8 a month, Premium at $30, Super at $100 and Ultra at $200, with Teams from $30 per seat and custom Enterprise pricing. Every tier shares one AI usage pool across Cursor and xAI's Grok, and that pool refreshes weekly.
The biggest catch for developers is model access. The $8 Plus plan runs only Grok models. Claude, GPT and Gemini are still available in Cursor, but only from Premium up, and they're billed separately at API list price on top of the subscription. For US developers who picked Cursor to code with Claude, that makes the old $20 Pro comparison meaningless.
Is Cursor free?
Yes, Cursor still has a free plan, but it's limited. The Free tier costs $0 and includes limited agent requests and limited Grok chat requests, which is enough to try the editor on a small project but not to code with an AI agent every day.
The cheapest paid step is Plus at $8 a month, which xAI calls its introductory plan. It adds a shared usage pool, Grok Chat, Voice, Imagine and Build, and Grok API access, plus X perks like a checkmark and fewer timeline ads. It doesn't include Claude or GPT at any price, so it only makes sense if you're happy coding with Grok models.
What changed on October 12, 2026
On October 12, 2026, xAI announced the X Subscription, a single set of plans covering Grok, Cursor and X. Cursor's parent, Anysphere, agreed to be acquired by SpaceX in June. The new Premium tier at $30 a month bundles the benefits of SuperGrok, Cursor Pro and X Premium+, which xAI says previously cost $90 a month combined, and each plan includes at least twice as much coding usage with xAI's models as the comparable Cursor plan did.
The old Cursor ladder was Pro at $20 a month, Pro+ at $60 and Ultra at $200, with Claude and GPT usage drawn from an included credit pool. If you already pay for Cursor, nothing changes automatically: xAI says existing Cursor, SuperGrok and X Premium subscribers can keep their current plan and price, or switch and get a prorated refund. New customers can only buy the new tiers.
What Claude and GPT cost inside Cursor now
Premium and higher plans include generous usage of Grok models but no allowance for third-party models. Claude, GPT and Gemini remain available in Cursor at API list price, so you pay for exactly the tokens you use, and you can set spending caps. Usage beyond your plan's Grok pool is sold as top-offs, and Grok API calls are billed separately at standard model rates.
At Anthropic's list prices, Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, and Opus 5.5 costs $4 and $20. A developer who codes with Claude in Cursor every day now pays $30 or more for the plan plus that usage. The same developer could pay $20 for Claude Pro, which includes Claude Code, as our Claude Code pricing guide explains, or $20 for ChatGPT Plus with Codex, covered in our Codex pricing breakdown.
Which Cursor plan should you pick?
Cursor's own guidance is Premium for people new to AI coding, Super for daily agent users and Ultra for power users, with Plus aimed at social creators who use AI lightly. Our read, for developers deciding today, is below. If you're weighing Cursor against Anthropic's agent, our Claude Code vs Cursor comparison covers workflow and cost side by side.
- Try Cursor on Free first. It costs nothing and shows whether the editor-first workflow suits you.
- Pick Plus ($8) only if Grok models are good enough for your code. It can't run Claude or GPT.
- Pick Premium ($30) if you want cloud agents, AI code reviews and the option to use Claude or GPT, and budget for their API usage on top.
- Pick Super ($100) or Ultra ($200) if you run agents all day and keep hitting Premium's weekly pool.
- If you mainly want Claude models at a flat price, Claude Pro at $20 with Claude Code is cheaper than Cursor Premium plus Claude API usage.
- Already on an old Cursor Pro plan? You can keep it. Compare your monthly bill before switching.
