Cursor Pricing 2026: X Subscription Tiers, Old Pro Plans and Real Costs

Cursor pricing changed on October 12, 2026. Two months after SpaceX completed its purchase of Cursor, cursor.com/pricing started selling The X Subscription, the same plan xAI sells for Grok: Free, Plus at $8/month, Premium at $30/month, Super at $100/month and Ultra at $200/month, with Teams from $30 per seat and Enterprise priced by sales. The catch is in the small print: Plus includes only Grok models, and Claude, GPT and Gemini start at Premium, billed separately at API list price. The old Hobby, Pro, Pro+, Ultra and Teams plans are still in Cursor’s help center, and existing subscribers can keep them.

We rechecked every number in this guide against Cursor’s pricing page, xAI’s launch post and Cursor’s documentation on 14 October 2026. It walks through every tier of the new plan, explains how the shared usage pool works, shows what happened to Pro, Pro+ and Teams, and compares Cursor with Claude Code and Devin Desktop, the tool formerly called Windsurf.

The Key Takeaways

• New plans since October 12, 2026: Cursor now sells The X Subscription: Free, Plus $8, Premium $30, Super $100 and Ultra $200 a month, which also bundle Grok and X Premium perks.
• Plus at $8/month is Grok-only in Cursor. Third-party models such as Claude, GPT and Gemini, cloud agents and Bugbot code reviews all start at Premium ($30), and third-party models are billed separately at API list price on every tier.
• Super and Ultra give 15x and 50x the usage of Plus, against 4x on Premium. Neither Cursor nor xAI publishes a dollar size for any tier’s pool.
• Old plans live on for existing subscribers: Pro ($20), Pro+ ($60), Ultra ($200) and Teams ($40/$120 per seat) are still listed in Cursor’s help center, and xAI says nothing changes unless you switch.
• Bugbot is usage-based since May 2026, about $1.00 to $1.50 per review. The old $40 seat price is legacy.
• Student free year ended: Cursor closed its free-year-of-Pro offer to new signups on June 25, 2026; existing redeemers keep it until expiry.

Cursor AI Pricing Plans 2026 at a Glance

Cursor’s pricing page now shows five individual tiers plus Teams and Enterprise, all under The X Subscription. Here is the ladder as it appears on the official Cursor pricing page, read on 14 October 2026, with what each tier means inside the editor; per-model rates are in Cursor’s models and pricing documentation.

Every price is shown before tax, and third-party model usage is never included in the monthly price. Subscriptions are sold only directly: the pricing page warns that plans bought from resellers or third-party sellers are unauthorized and may be suspended, so a cheap “Cursor Pro” from a key shop is a risk, not a bargain. Cursor’s help center has not caught up yet and still lists the old plans, which is why you will see two different price lists depending on where you look.

Grok Bot, the always-on agent app SpaceXAI and Cursor built together, joined every paid Cursor plan on 26 August 2026, and Cursor Pro still includes Grok Bot for existing subscribers. On The X Subscription it starts at Premium, and the higher tiers simply give it more of the shared pool. At $30 that entry sits $10 above Claude Pro, which is why we put Grok Bot up against Claude Cowork directly.

Cursor’s free plan (and what happened to the student year)

Yes, Cursor is still free to start. The Free tier of The X Subscription includes Cursor’s Agent with a limited number of requests, plus limited Grok Chat and Grok Build, and you do not need a credit card. Cloud agents, Bugbot reviews and third-party models are not included. It is enough to evaluate Cursor, but the limits make it unsuitable for full-time work.

For a year the far better deal was Cursor for Students, a full year of Pro for free worth roughly $240. That offer closed to new signups on June 25, 2026 after Cursor cited widespread verification fraud. Students who already redeemed it keep the free rate until their year expires, then roll over to standard $20/month Pro. Undergraduates now get credits and discounts at on-campus and online events this fall, and Master’s students, PhD candidates, researchers and educators can request credits through a form in Cursor’s help center. We break down exactly what is left in our Cursor student discount guide.

If you missed the free-year window, the Free tier plus a rotation of competitor free tiers is now the cheapest route into a real AI coding workflow. It is also a useful way to learn how agent coding feels before paying for it out of your own pocket.

Plus at $8/month: the Grok-only tier

Plus at $8/month is the cheapest way to pay for Cursor, and it comes with a hard boundary: Cursor’s pricing page says “Only Grok models are available on this plan”. You get Cursor’s Agent at a basic usage level, Grok Chat, Imagine and Build, Grok API access and the X checkmark. You do not get cloud agents, code hosting, Bugbot reviews or any third-party model.

In practice, Plus suits someone happy to code with Grok 4.7 and nothing else. The moment you want Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-5.6 Sol or Gemini in the editor, Plus cannot do it at any price, and you need Premium. xAI recommends Plus for “social creators with limited AI usage”, which tells you who it was designed for.

Every tier draws from one usage pool shared across Grok and Cursor that xAI says refreshes weekly. When it runs out you can buy top-ups or wait for the refresh, and the remaining usage is always visible in settings. If you top up most weeks, the next tier up will probably save you money.

Premium at $30/month: where Cursor Pro went

Premium at $30/month is the tier most developers need, and xAI says it includes the benefits of SuperGrok, Cursor Pro and X Premium+, “previously $90/month combined”. In Cursor it adds 4x the usage of Plus, cloud agents and automations, code hosting via Origin, AI code reviews via Bugbot and access to third-party models at API list price, billed separately by usage. Outside the editor you also get Grok Bot, the latest Grok models and video generation. Old Pro was $20, so a new subscriber pays $10 more for a bundle that includes Grok and X perks.

Most readers will never need anything past Premium.

Super at $100/month and Ultra at $200/month

Super at $100/month gives 15x the usage of Plus and priority model access at peak times, and xAI recommends it for daily agent users. Ultra at $200/month gives 50x and the earliest access to new products and models, aimed at power users. Both still bill third-party models separately at API list price, so a Claude-heavy workload costs more than the sticker price on either tier.

For comparison, Anthropic’s Claude Max plan, which includes Claude Code, costs $100/month for the 5x tier and $200/month for the 20x tier. Super and Ultra hit the same price points, but their included usage covers Grok models, while a Claude plan is all Claude. Many heavy users combine the two rather than picking one.

Cursor Start: the India-only plan at ₹649

On 28 July 2026 Cursor launched Cursor Start, a plan for developers in India at ₹649 a month, tax included, payable with UPI or a card. India is Cursor’s third-largest market, with more than 3 million developers. Start covers only the Cursor Models pool (Grok 4.7, 4.6 and 4.5 plus Composer 2.5) in non-fast mode at a fixed medium effort, along with cloud agents, Cursor for iOS, plugins, MCP servers, hooks and skills. It does not include third-party models, Auto, Bugbot, Automations, the Cursor SDK or on-demand usage. Cursor’s new pricing page does not list Start, but its help center still does, at ₹649 a month.

Cursor Teams from $30 per seat

Teams now sells Premium, Super or Ultra seats at the same per-seat price as the individual plans, so a seat starts at $30 per user/month and you can mix seat types. xAI says that is cheaper per seat than the old Cursor Teams plan while including 3x more coding usage, plus SSO, admin controls, consolidated billing, usage analytics and SOC 2 compliance. The old Teams plan, $40 per Standard seat and $120 per Premium seat, is still listed in Cursor’s help center for existing teams. Cursor’s docs also charge Teams a Cursor Token Rate of $0.25 per million tokens on third-party model requests, including bring-your-own-key use. A 10-person team on Premium seats runs $300/month before third-party usage.

For small teams of 2 to 5 developers, individual Premium accounts plus shared documentation often work just as well. Teams earns its price once you need centralized billing, SAML or OIDC single sign-on, team-wide privacy settings, a shared marketplace for rules, skills and plugins, or Cursor Router, the smarter version of Auto that Cursor’s docs reserve for Teams and Enterprise.

Cursor Enterprise pricing

Cursor publishes no Enterprise price; it is quoted by sales. On the new grid it adds invoice and PO billing, SCIM seat management, granular spend controls and group-level limits, auto-run, browser and network controls, repository, model and MCP access controls, audit logs and service accounts, controls for Grok Bot, and priority support, on top of everything in Teams. The price depends on seat count, included usage and contract length, and larger teams can ask [email protected] about volume discounts.

Cursor Bugbot pricing

Bugbot, Cursor’s automated pull request reviewer, used to cost $40 per user per month. In its May 2026 update Cursor dropped the seat fee and moved Bugbot to usage-based billing; existing customers switched at their first renewal after 8 June 2026. Cursor says the average Bugbot run costs $1.00 to $1.50, depending on the size and complexity of the pull request. On individual plans it bills from your included usage, and on Teams it bills from on-demand spend. You can now set how hard Bugbot thinks per review, and there is a 14-day free trial. Its Autofix feature runs on cloud agents and bills at your plan’s rates. On The X Subscription, AI code reviews via Bugbot are included from Premium up.

How Cursor Usage Limits Work: The Shared Pool, Auto and the Router

This is the section every Cursor user wishes they had read first. On The X Subscription, every tier draws from one usage pool shared across Grok and Cursor that xAI says refreshes weekly, and higher tiers simply multiply it: 4x Plus on Premium, 15x on Super, 50x on Ultra. Third-party models such as Claude, GPT and Gemini are not in that pool on any tier; from Premium up they are billed separately at API list price. The old Pro, Pro+ and Ultra plans work differently, with two monthly pools: a Cursor Models pool for Grok 4.7, Grok 4.6, Grok 4.5 and Composer 2.5, and an Other Models pool for third-party models at their API price. Neither system publishes a dollar size.

Because third-party usage is billed at the API price of the model you pick, the model matters more than the tier you are on. These are Cursor’s published rates for a selection of models.

Auto now has three modes: Cost, Balance and Intelligence. Whichever you choose, every Auto request bills at the list price of the model it is routed to, so Auto is a way to spend less per request, not a free lane. Balance and Intelligence run on Cursor Router, launched on 22 July 2026, which is only available on Teams and Enterprise and uses your limits faster than Cost. Max Mode, which used to expand the context window on any plan, now exists only on legacy request-based plans, billed at the model’s API rate plus 20%.

When you reach your included usage on The X Subscription, you can buy top-ups or wait for the weekly refresh. On the old plans, Cursor lets you switch on on-demand usage at the same API rates or move up a plan. Cursor’s own rule of thumb from its old plan guidance still applies: daily Tab users and light Agent users usually stay within their included usage, daily agent users typically land at $60 to $100 a month in total, and power users running several agents often pass $200.

What Changed in Cursor Pricing in 2026

Cursor’s 2026 pricing changed in two stages. Between May and September the plan prices stayed the same and nearly everything around them moved; on 12 October the prices themselves changed.

• 11 May: Bugbot drops its $40 seat fee for usage-based billing.
• By late June: paid plans split into two usage pools, one for Cursor’s own models and one for third-party models at API prices.
• 25 June: the free student year closes to new signups.
• 22 and 28 July: Cursor Router launches with Auto Balance and Auto Intelligence, and the India-only Start plan arrives at ₹649.
• 14 August: SpaceX completes its acquisition of Cursor, which began as a SpaceXAI partnership in April. Grok becomes Cursor’s own model family.
• 26 August and 21 September: Grok Bot joins every paid plan, and Grok 4.7 becomes the newest model in the Cursor Models pool.
• 12 October: The X Subscription replaces Cursor’s plans on cursor.com/pricing: Free, Plus $8 (Grok only), Premium $30, Super $100 and Ultra $200, with Teams from $30 per seat.

The June 2025 switch that started it

The biggest change came on October 12, 2026, when xAI launched The X Subscription and Cursor’s pricing page switched to it. Cursor became part of SpaceX on August 14, 2026, and its plans are now one product with Grok and X Premium. Before that, on June 16, 2025, Cursor moved from the old “500 fast requests per month” model to usage-based pricing, because, in Cursor’s words on its official pricing announcement, newer AI models burn through tokens at vastly different rates depending on task complexity.

The rollout was rough. Some Pro users hit unexpected charges in the first weeks because Cursor had not made it clear that “unlimited usage” only applied to Auto mode, not all models. Cursor publicly apologized and offered full refunds for surprise charges between June 16 and July 4, 2025 through [email protected].

Each change since 2025 has made Cursor’s own models cheaper to use inside the editor and third-party models a pay-as-you-go extra. The X Subscription takes that to its end point: Plus includes no third-party models at all, and every tier above it bills them separately.

Cursor vs Claude Code vs Devin Desktop (Windsurf) Pricing

Cursor is no longer the only premium AI coding option. Here is how it stacks up against its two closest rivals at the individual and team level, with our take on Claude Code pricing as the reference point most Fello AI readers already know. Windsurf now belongs to Cognition, which renamed it Devin Desktop in June 2026. Google’s Antigravity is another option with a $0 plan, and its higher limits come with a Google AI Pro subscription.

Two patterns stand out. First, the entry prices no longer line up: Cursor Plus at $8 undercuts both rivals, but it is Grok-only, so the fair comparison for anyone who wants Claude or GPT is Premium at $30 against $20 at Claude and Devin Desktop. The top individual tiers still meet at $200/month. Second, at team level Claude is the cheapest per seat, because Anthropic includes Claude Code in every paid plan. A 10-developer team pays $250/month on Claude Team Standard, $300/month on Cursor Teams with Premium seats and $480/month on Devin Desktop.

Seat price is not the whole bill. Cursor’s included usage covers Grok models, and every Claude or GPT request is billed on top at API list price, while a Claude plan is all Claude. A team that wants Claude Opus all day will usually get more of it per dollar from Anthropic directly. A team happy to work mostly on Grok, with Claude or GPT for the hard problems, gets more from Cursor. If you work on a Mac, our guide to OpenAI Codex on the Mac covers a third option.

Which Cursor Plan Should You Pick?

The honest answer changes a lot depending on who you are. We have grouped the four most common reader profiles below.

If you are a student. The free year of Pro is gone for new signups, so start on the Free tier and lean on it plus a few free trials of competitors. Our roundup of the best free AI for coding covers the strongest zero-cost options. If you are a grad student, researcher, or educator, check the credit request route in our Cursor student discount guide. Plus at $8 is enough for class projects if you are happy coding with Grok.

If you are a hobbyist coder or curious builder. Start on Free. If it gets in the way within the first week, move to Plus if Grok is enough for you, or Premium if you want Claude or GPT in the editor. Either is fine for evening tinkering, weekend projects and learning to code with AI.

If you are a side-project coder shipping real things. Premium is your default, because it is the first tier with third-party models, cloud agents and Bugbot. Watch how much you spend on Claude or GPT on top: that usage is billed at API price on every tier, so if most of your work runs on Claude, a Claude plan may cost less. Skip Ultra unless you are running agents constantly.

If you are a full-time developer running agents all day. Super is the tier xAI recommends for daily agent use, and Ultra at $200/month makes sense once you keep buying top-ups on Super. If you already pay for Pro+ or Ultra on the old plans, compare your real monthly bill before switching, since xAI lets you keep the old plan. Switching is permanent, and our guide to switching to The X Subscription covers what happens to your Cursor plan and its refund. Many full-time devs combine Cursor with Claude Code, using Cursor for fast utility work and Claude Code for deep multi-file refactors. See our roundup of the 30 best Claude Code skills if you decide to try the combo.

Tips to Stretch Your Cursor Plan

A few habits will keep your Cursor bill flat regardless of which plan you pick.

Default to Grok inside Cursor. Grok models are what your included pool covers, so use them for everyday edits, tests and small features. On the old plans, Composer 2.5 at $0.50 per million input tokens is cheaper still.

Pick Claude or GPT on purpose. Every request to a third-party model is billed at full API price, outside the shared pool on The X Subscription and from the smaller Other Models pool on the old plans. Save Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5.1 for the hard refactors and unfamiliar codebases where they actually change the result. GPT also has an end date in Cursor: OpenAI plans to stop supplying its models to Cursor on 12 November 2026. Our Codex vs Cursor comparison covers what still works after that.

Watch your usage weekly. Cursor shows your remaining usage in settings, and on The X Subscription the pool refreshes weekly. Glancing at it once a week catches runaway agent sessions early and tells you whether you are trending toward a higher tier or fine where you are. If you use third-party models, set a spend limit.

Keep prompts tight and reuse outputs. Rambling prompts cost tokens. So does asking the same question twice because you forgot the answer. Save useful outputs into a personal notes file or build your own Cursor and Claude Code skills so the work compounds instead of evaporating.

Check the yearly price before you commit. The old Cursor plans took 20% off for yearly billing. The X Subscription checkout has a yearly option too, so compare it at checkout once you have used Cursor for a few months and know you will stay.

Cursor for Non-Coders? Why Fello AI Might Be a Better Fit

Cursor is a code editor. If you do not write code, paying $30/month for a bundle built around an IDE you only use to chat with Claude or ChatGPT is the wrong shape of tool. The same is true for many of our readers who came to AI through writing, research, or productivity work rather than software.

If your goal is to chat with multiple AI models, generate text, summarize PDFs, write emails, build study materials, or get help with school and work, Fello AI is the better match. One subscription at $9.99/month or $79.99/year gives you Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek and more in a single Mac and iOS app, with no terminal, no IDE and no usage pools to monitor. You pick whichever model fits the question, the way most people actually want to use AI.

For full-time coders, Cursor remains the right call. For everyone else, an editor-first tool is overkill. Compare what you actually want to do today, not what you might do in six months, and pick accordingly. Our best AI models in 2026 roundup is a useful next read if you are still deciding which model fits which task.

Conclusion

Cursor pricing in 2026 is now part of a bigger plan. Since October 12, Cursor sells The X Subscription: Free, Plus at $8 for Grok-only coding, Premium at $30 for third-party models, cloud agents and Bugbot, Super at $100 and Ultra at $200, with Teams from $30 per seat. Claude and GPT are billed on top at API prices on every tier. Existing Pro, Pro+, Ultra and Teams subscribers can keep their plans. For most new readers the right tier is Premium, or the Free tier to test the waters first.

If you write code, start on Cursor’s Free tier today and upgrade only if it gets in your way. If you do not write code, save yourself the IDE complexity and try Fello AI instead, where the same frontier models live inside an app built for chat, study, and productivity rather than software engineering.

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