What is Cursor's Agent mode?

Agent mode lets you describe a task in natural language and Cursor will autonomously plan, write, and edit code across multiple files to complete it. It can create new files, run terminal commands, and iterate on its own output. It is Cursor's most powerful — and most credit-intensive — feature.

Who are Cursor's enterprise customers?

Cursor counts many of the world's most accomplished engineering organizations as customers, including OpenAI, Midjourney, Perplexity, Shopify, Salesforce (which reported 30% engineering productivity uplift), Adobe, Uber, Nvidia, and the majority of Fortune 500 companies. Over 50,000 engineering teams globally use Cursor as of late 2025.

Is Cursor planning an IPO?

As of late 2025, Cursor CEO Michael Truell has stated the company has no plans for an IPO and is focused on product development and research investment, including expanding its proprietary Composer agentic model and growing its enterprise footprint.

Cursor

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The AI code editor that makes you extraordinarily productive

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Pricing

Hobby$0/month

Pro$20/month

Pro+$60/month

Ultra$200/month

Teams$40/user/month

EnterpriseCustom

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Technical Specs

Inputs

Natural Language Prompt, Existing Codebase, Terminal Command, File, GitHub Repository, Image

Outputs

Generated Code, Refactored Files, Terminal Output, Pull Request, Test Suite, Documentation, Bug Fix

AI Type

Agentic AI

Model Architecture

GPT-style Decoder

Daily Prompts

N/A

Context Length

N/A

Output Quality

Accuracy

95%

Content

94%

Reasoning

93%

Company Profile

Company

Anysphere Inc.

Founded

2022

San Francisco, California, USA

Employees

250

Total Raised / Total Funding

$3.37B

Revenue

$1B

Valuation

$29.3B

ARR

$1B

CEO

Michael Truell

Overview

Estimated Paid Users

Current estimate

Total Earnings Till Date

$1B

+6.67% from last month

Market Share

22.4%

Current share

Average Session

180

Per active user

Hallucination Rate

Model quality signal

Growth Rate

+8.16%

Monthly active users

Burn Rate

N/A

Total expenses / years active

Paid User Gain

+19.05%

Monthly paid user trend

No demo video available yet.

Platforms

Web App

Available

Profit Analysis

-$500M

Total Loss

$591.4M

Total Profit

Performance Metrics

Accuracy

95%

Context

94%

Reasoning

93%

Safety

89%

Benchmarks

No benchmark scores available.

Cursor Models

Cursor (VS Code fork)

Type: Text

Description: Initial release based on VS Code with GPT-3.5/4 integration for Tab completion and basic chat. Introduced the AI-native IDE paradigm.

Architecture: GPT-style Decoder

Cursor with Composer

Type: Text

Description: Major upgrade introducing Agent/Composer mode for multi-file autonomous code editing. Integrated GPT-4, Claude 3 Opus, and Gemini models.

Architecture: GPT-style Decoder

Cursor with Supermaven Tab

Type: Text

Description: Post-Supermaven-acquisition Tab model with 1M-token context window using Babble architecture. Ultra-low latency completions across large codebases.

Architecture: GPT-style Decoder

Cursor with Composer Proprietary Model

Type: Reasoning

Description: In-house Cursor Composer agentic model co-designed with the editor UI. Generates more code than nearly any other LLM globally. Supports multi-step autonomous coding tasks.

Architecture: GPT-style Decoder

Funding Rounds & Investors

Total Funding

$3.37B

Rounds

Series D

$2.3B

Nov 2025

Closed November 13, 2025 at $29.3B valuation — more than 3x the Series C valuation in just 5 months. Cursor reported $1B+ annualized revenue and 300+ employees at close. Strategic investors Google and Nvidia joined for the first time. Total funding reached $3.4B across all rounds.

Series C

$900M

Jun 2025

Raised June 2025 at $9.9B valuation — described by Bloomberg as the fastest-growing startup ever. Cursor had crossed $500M ARR at time of close. Three funding rounds in under one year. DST Global joined as a new investor.

Series B

$105M

Dec 2024

Raised December 2024 at $2.6B valuation. Cursor was approaching $100M ARR at time of close. Thrive Capital led for the first time, beginning a pattern of doubling down.

Founders/Team

Michael Truell

Co-Founder & CEO

Sualeh Asif

Co-Founder & CPO

Arvid Lunnemark

Co-Founder & Former CTO

Aman Sanger

Co-Founder & COO

Direct competitors

No direct competitors available.

Change Log / Major Updates

2025 · Oct 1

Launched Cursor's own in-house Composer agentic coding model, reducing dependency on external API providers and enabling tighter co-design between model capabilities and editor UI.

2025 · Nov 13

Closed $2.3B Series D co-led by Accel and Coatue, with participation from NVIDIA and Google. Crossed $1B annualized revenue. Team grew to 300+. Cursor named as serving majority of Fortune 500 and 50,000+ engineering teams globally.

2025 · Dec 19

Acquired code review startup Graphite to extend Cursor from code writing into code review, completing a unified AI-powered development platform covering writing, editing, and reviewing code.

Compliance, Integrations & Support

Industry: Not specified

Compliances: Not specified

Integrations: Claude API, OpenAI GPT-4o, Google Gemini, GitHub, GitLab, VS Code Extensions, MCP Servers, Bugbot, Cursor Marketplace

Support:email, community forum, help center, enterprise support

Target audience: Software Engineers, Full-Stack Developers, Backend Developers, Frontend Developers, Enterprise Engineering Teams, Indie Developers, Open Source Contributors, Students

Supported languages: English, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C++, C#, Go, Rust, Ruby, PHP, Swift, Kotlin, Scala, Shell, SQL, HTML, CSS, YAML, JSON

Cursor Acquisitions

Graphite

December 19, 2025

N/A

Growth by Design

November 1, 2025

N/A

Koala

July 1, 2025

$129M

Supermaven

November 12, 2024

N/A

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More About Cursor

Zero to $1B ARR. Four MIT dropouts. Under three years.

In 2022, Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark, and Aman Sanger turned down lucrative offers from Google, Meta, and Jane Street to leave MIT and build something nobody had built before: an AI that doesn't just suggest the next line of code, but genuinely understands what you're trying to build — and helps you build it. The result is Cursor, the fastest B2B company in history to reach $1 billion in annual recurring revenue, and the code editor that 1 million developers now open every single day.

SaaStr called it "the fastest value creation in B2B history." Jensen Huang named it his favorite enterprise AI service. OpenAI reportedly offered to acquire it for billions — and was turned down.

What Makes Cursor Different

Cursor is a fork of VS Code — familiar enough that developers adopt it in minutes, different enough that switching back feels like losing a limb. The AI layer is not bolted on. It is the foundation. Every feature — Tab autocomplete, Cmd+K inline edits, Composer agent, Codebase Chat — is built around the idea that the editor should understand your entire project, not just the file you have open.

Tab Autocomplete — predicts not just the current line but the next logical edit across your file, learning your personal coding patterns as you go; the fastest autocomplete in any AI editor
Composer / Agentic Mode — describe a feature in plain English; Cursor plans, writes, and edits across multiple files simultaneously like a senior engineer executing a sprint ticket end-to-end
Cmd+K Inline Edit — highlight any block of code, describe the change, get a clean diff in under a second
Codebase Chat — index your entire repository and ask questions in natural language; Cursor returns answers grounded in your actual code, not generic documentation
Bugbot — always-on automated debugging agent integrated with GitHub; reviews pull requests, flags issues, and suggests fixes at $40/seat/month
Cloud Agents — long-running autonomous agents that execute multi-step tasks in the background without requiring the editor to stay open
MCP Support — connect any Model Context Protocol server to give agents access to external tools, databases, and APIs
Cursor Marketplace — a library of community-built agents, rules, and skills that extend Cursor's capabilities for specific stacks and workflows

Model Agnostic by Design

Cursor routes tasks to Claude (Anthropic), GPT-4o and o-series (OpenAI), Gemini (Google), and its own internally optimized models depending on context. Switching models is a single dropdown — no new interface, no configuration, no workflow disruption. This architecture is why NVIDIA and Google made strategic investments in the Series D: a model-agnostic editor with 1M+ daily users is one of the highest-value inference distribution channels in the industry.

Who Uses Cursor

1 million+ daily active developers as of December 2025
50,000+ engineering teams globally
Stripe, Ramp, Brex, Rippling, Samsara, OpenAI, Figma, Datadog, and the majority of the Fortune 500
9,900% year-over-year ARR growth — the fastest in enterprise software history

Funding & Valuation

Seed (2023): $8M led by OpenAI Startup Fund; angels: Nat Friedman (ex-GitHub CEO), Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox co-founder)
Series A (August 2024): $60M led by a16z at $400M valuation
Series C (June 2025): $900M led by Thrive Capital at $9.9B valuation; $500M ARR milestone
Series D (November 2025): $2.3B co-led by Accel and Coatue at $29.3B valuation; strategic checks from NVIDIA and Google; $1B+ ARR milestone
Total raised: $3.365B as of December 2025

Cursor FAQ's

What is Cursor and how is it different from GitHub Copilot?

Cursor is a full AI-native code editor forked from VS Code, meaning AI is integrated at every layer — not just as a plugin. Unlike GitHub Copilot, which adds suggestions to existing editors, Cursor understands your entire codebase context, supports multi-file edits via its Agent mode, and uses speculative editing to pre-compute changes before you finish typing. It supports multiple frontier models including GPT-4.1, Claude Opus 4, and Gemini 2.5 Pro.

Is Cursor free to use?

Yes. The Hobby plan is free and includes 2,000 Tab completions and 50 slow Agent requests per month with no credit card required. Paid plans start at $20/month (Pro) for unlimited Tab, unlimited Auto mode, and a $20 monthly credit pool for premium model usage.

What happened with Cursor's pricing change in June 2025?

In June 2025, Cursor switched from a request-count model to a usage-credit model where the $20 Pro fee includes $20 of compute credits billed at model API rates. This caused confusion and unexpected charges for some users. Cursor apologized, clarified the system in a July 4 post, and offered refunds for overcharges between June 16 and July 4. Auto mode remains unlimited on all paid plans.

Does Cursor work with my existing VS Code extensions?

Yes. Because Cursor is a fork of VS Code, it is compatible with the majority of VS Code extensions, themes, and keybindings. Developers can import their existing VS Code settings and continue using familiar tools inside Cursor.

Which AI models does Cursor support?

Cursor supports multiple frontier models including OpenAI's GPT-4.1, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet series, and Google Gemini 2.5 Pro. The Auto mode selects the best model automatically without consuming credits. Users can manually select premium models at the cost of their monthly credit pool.