Cursor
Cursor is an AI-first IDE forked from VS Code, with Tab autocomplete, agentic Composer chat, semantic codebase indexing, a CLI, Slack integration, and cloud agents. Built for developers and engineering teams running frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI inside their editor.
Use Cases
Edit code in a VS Code-style IDE with Tab autocomplete and inline AI
Hand off feature work to agents that build and demo end-to-end
Run cloud agents that work in parallel on independent tasks
Drive coding from the terminal with the Cursor CLI
Tag @cursor in Slack to open PRs from team conversations
Review pull requests with BugBot before merge
Pros
Tab model predicts the next edit with low-latency completions
Bring-your-own-model across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and xAI
Composer 2.5 in-house model trained for agentic coding
Cloud agents run on their own VMs and report back with PRs
Privacy Mode enforces zero data retention with model providers
Cons
VS Code fork means you maintain a separate install from upstream
Usage-based billing kicks in once included model credits run out
Agentic features are harder to constrain than single-edit completions
SCIM, audit logs, and pooled usage gated behind Enterprise tier
Privacy guarantees still rely on third-party model providers honoring ZDR
Platforms
Web
Mobile
Desktop
API
Chatbot
Compliance & Certifications
SOC 2
AICPA
Cursor still owns the autocomplete experience nobody else has matched, with the Tab model predicting where you're going to type next instead of just what comes after the cursor. The agent panel and Cloud Agents are where most of the new effort is going, which is fine if you want them and noisy if all you wanted was a smarter IDE.
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