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02 pagesCursor pricing, plans and usage limits, with the billing terms and alternatives that matter before you pay. Every figure is sourced and re-checked against primary sources.
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Cursor Pricing Explained (2026): Plans, Usage Limits, and What You Actually Pay
Cursor's free Hobby tier needs no card; Pro is $20/month with a pool of included model usage, after which on-demand usage-based billing applies (Auto mode at roughly $1.25 per million input tokens); an India-only Start plan costs ₹649/month; Business adds per-seat pricing with pooled usage, and Enterprise is custom. This maintained page explains every plan, what the included usage actually covers, the per-model overage rates, and the math on what a daily Agent user really pays per month, including the cost-visibility regression we reported after Cursor removed cost tracking from its usage dashboard.
02Cursor Alternatives in 2026: Every Rival's Price, Limits, and When to Actually Switch
The strongest Cursor alternatives in 2026 are Claude Code, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Cline, and Zed: free routes exist (Cline is open source, Copilot has a free tier), paid rivals cluster around $10-20/month, and the right pick depends on whether you are leaving Cursor over price, usage limits, or agentic workflow. This maintained page compares each alternative's current price, free-tier limits, and the specific job it does better than Cursor, every figure dated and sourced from the vendor's own pricing pages.