3 categories · RankedCursor
Cursor is an AI coding agent and editor for building software, used by development teams and individual developers · cursor.com ↗
Strongest at small business. Ranked 10 of 61 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
GitHub Copilot is first at 73%.
GitHub Copilot is first at 80%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
GitHub Copilot is first at 86%.
Why models recommend it
“Pick Cursor or Windsurf if: You want the most seamless experience for multi-file refactoring and rapid feature generation”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · first choice
“If you want the most powerful AI experience and don't mind switching editors → Go with Cursor.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Comparative question · first choice
“Cursor is currently the dominant choice due to its seamless balance of power and ease of use”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Comparative question · first choice
“Cursor (free tier or Pro) or Tabnine (free tier) are excellent starting points”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“any extension of the popular AI development tool Cursor can access the developer's API keys and session tokens, leading to full credential compromise”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“Verdict: Use with extreme caution, especially without enterprise controls and Privacy Mode explicitly enabled.”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
“Cursor's pricing page indicates model usage can be billed separately at list price for third-party models, which can make spend less predictable.”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Be particularly cautious with: Autonomous agent modes in tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Aider, Devin, and Copilot Workspace”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Cursor, over the 184 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 179 | 107 | Compare → | |
| 100 | 2 | View → | |
| 86 | 1 | View → | |
| 79 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 64 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 28 | 1 | View → | |
| 28 | 0 | View → | |
| 21 | 0 | View → | |
| 19 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 17 | 1 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of Cursor →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Cursor's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- teams that build world-class software
- Price stated
- Free; $20 / mo.; $40 / user / mo.; Custom
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Hobby
- Certifications
- SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, AIUC-1
- Customers named
- Y Combinator, NVIDIA, Eureka Labs, Stripe, shadcn/ui, OpenAI, Brex, Sentry
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 164 of the 184 answers that named Cursor and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
253 of the 318 domain citations in answers naming Cursor came from a third party's page. Forty-four were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference or event | 42,079 | 84 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Blog | 126 | 25 | 2026-09-23 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 65 | 24 | 2026-09-20 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 14 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 13 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 6 | 4 | 2026-08-12 | ||
| Template or tool | 4 | undated | |||
| Case study | 3 | 1 | 2026-09-14 |
Most recent
Events in person
- September 11, 2026Ship It with Cursor: A Hands-On Build Workshop #InnovateSplit2026place not stated · hosted
As the event pages on cursor.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cursor.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.