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Cursor vs GitHub Copilot

Pick up to three tools. Prices are read from each official pricing page and shown per month.

GitHub Copilot is the cheapest to start, at $10 a month.

AttributeCursorGitHub Copilot
CategoryCodingCoding
Good forcoding, app building, automationcoding, automation, productivity
Starts at$20/mo$10/mo
Free planYesYes
Free tier limitsHobby plan with limited Agent requests and access to Composer; no credit card required.Free plan: 2,000 code completions and 50 chat requests per month, limited agent usage.
Free plan detailsNot checked yetNot checked yet
The catchNot checked yetNot checked yet
Pricing modelFree plan + paidFree plan + paid
Key features
  • Agent for multi-file code changes
  • Choice of frontier AI models
  • Cloud agents running in background
  • Bugbot AI code review
  • Inline code suggestions
  • Chat and agent mode in the IDE
  • Copilot CLI
  • Cloud agent and code review
All plans
  • HobbyFree
  • Pro$20
  • Teams$40
  • Pro$10
  • Pro+$39
  • Max$100
Popularity#16 generative AI service (Cloudflare Radar)#7 generative AI service (Cloudflare Radar)
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