4 free alternatives in AI Coding. Sorted by pricing stability.
Current Cursor Situation
Risk Level:caution
Why:discovered 2026-08-28 — The free tier now includes 'Limited Agent requests' and 'Access to Composer' instead of '2,000 completions/month, 50 slow premium requests'. The pricing structure has been significantly restructured with new tiers (Individual, Pro, Pro+, Ultra, Teams Standard, Teams Premium, Enterprise) and a focus on 'Agent' and 'Grok' limits.
Data correction — we published a Hobby tier at $10/month that Cursor has never offered. Hobby is the name of Cursor's free plan. Our free-tier description also carried GitHub Copilot's 2,000-completions figure, which appears nowhere on cursor.com/pricing.
restructureddiscovered 2026-08-28high impact
The free tier now includes 'Limited Agent requests' and 'Access to Composer' instead of '2,000 completions/month, 50 slow premium requests'. The pricing structure has been significantly restructured with new tiers (Individual, Pro, Pro+, Ultra, Teams Standard, Teams Premium, Enterprise) and a focus on 'Agent' and 'Grok' limits.
restructured2026-04-13low impact
Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-02). Cursor now offers 6 plans: Free, Hobby ($10/mo), Pro ($20/mo), Pro+ ($60/mo), Business ($40/seat), Ultra ($200/mo). Hobby tier added as lighter paid option between Free and Pro. Credit-based pricing model since June 2025. Retracted 2026-09-02: Cursor has never offered a $10/month Hobby tier - Hobby is the name of its free plan. This row was our error, not a change Cursor made.
new tier2026-04-07medium impact
Cursor introduced Pro+ tier at $60/month between Pro ($20) and Ultra ($200). Pro+ includes 10x premium model requests vs Pro, priority access, and expanded context window. Expands the pricing ladder from 3 tiers (Free/Pro/Ultra) to 4 (Free/Pro/Pro+/Ultra), filling the $20-$200 gap.
restructured2025-06-01medium impact
Moved from flat monthly subscription to credit-based pricing model with new $200/month Ultra tier
not_a_free_offer Tier "Paid" is no free offer at all.
All Free Alternatives (4)
3 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 0 are demoted with the reason named, and 1 are listed last because they are not generally available or are not a free offer. How we rank.
not_a_free_offer Tier "Paid" is no free offer at all.
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There are 4 free alternatives to Cursor available. GitHub Copilot, Cline, Windsurf are among the options.
Is Cursor's free tier still available?
Cursor has a free tier (Free), but it's flagged as "caution" because of one specific recorded change, discovered 2026-08-28: The free tier now includes 'Limited Agent requests' and 'Access to Composer' instead of '2,000 completions/month, 50 slow premium requests'. The pricing structure has been significantly restructured with new tiers (Individual, Pro, Pro+, Ultra, Teams Standard, Teams Premium, Enterprise) and a focus on 'Agent' and 'Grok' limits.
How many free alternatives to Cursor exist?
There are 4 free alternatives to Cursor tracked on AgentDeals across the AI Coding category.
Has Cursor changed their pricing?
Cursor has 5 recorded pricing changes. The most recent was on 2026-09-02: Data correction — we published a Hobby tier at $10/month that Cursor has never offered. Hobby is the name of Cursor's free plan. Our free-tier description also carried GitHub Copilot's 2,000-completions figure, which appears nowhere on cursor.com/pricing.
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