ComponentOne vs. Cursor

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ComponentOne
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
ComponentOne Studio, from software company GrapeCity in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, provides Visual Studio controls.
$1,299
per year per developer
Cursor
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
Cursor is an IDE and code editor built for programming with AI. Cursor includes an autocomplete that predicts the next edit. Once enabled, it is always on and will suggest edits to code across multiple lines.
$20
per month
Pricing
ComponentOneCursor
Editions & Modules
Enterprise
$1,299.00
per year per developer
Pro
$20
per month
Teams
$40
per month per user
Pro+
$60
per month
Ultra
$200
per month
Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ComponentOneCursor
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsEvery plan includes a set amount of model usage. Additional usage is based on the models and features used. The Bugbot add-on is available at $40 per month, per user, or with Custom pricing for Enterprise customers. A discount is available for annual billing.
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Community Pulse
ComponentOneCursor
Considered Both Products
ComponentOne
Chose ComponentOne
We have been in business since 1992, so we have used many different products over the years. The two other products we've primary used that are similar to ComponentOne, are Infragistics and Crystal Reports. Infragistics has a vast array of controls similar to ComponentOne. …
Cursor
Chose Cursor
We use both Claude Code and Cursor. However, we find Cursor to be quite fast compared to Claude Code. Claude Code seems to be able to reach higher levels of intelligence, though that's not really necessary much of the time. The speed of Cursor can really stand out in comparison.
Chose Cursor
Cursor is superior because its integration is easy; it provides the same benefits as the others, but it does so by managing LLMs in a more intuitive way. The fact that it is now proprietary to SpaceXAI might make the use of Grok more efficient and maybe cheaper for users …
Chose Cursor
Cursor contains multiple AI model from different LLM Model builders, so Cursor stacks up against them with even their model also and other models also and gives a free composer model to do coding easily for the developers. Even when the token completed for the subscription …
Chose Cursor
graphical user interface is really the thing that setting apart because other code harnesses are really focused on commandline interfaces but whenever you want a good graphical interface with all of the tools and workflow that us software developers we want I think that Cursor …
Chose Cursor
Better agentic coding quality, inherent context of code by repo caching, easier to configure guardrails - these all amount to better quality code with less iteration and fussing around with the agent to get it to do what you want.
Chose Cursor
Softr's chat AI is less sophisticated. However, it is great for building simple database-driven webapps. I have used it together with Airtable to build a very simple webapp. It is drag and drop. Vercel V0's chatAI is faster and more friendly. The user interface is also …
Chose Cursor
Cursor has built-in AI and is a fork based on Visual Studio Code. So the fact is, it is better than Visual Studio Code because of AI, and if you are a developer that uses more than notebooks, in my opinion, it surely beats Jupyter Notebook, too. It is my go-to for basically all …
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User Ratings
ComponentOneCursor
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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9.7
(0 ratings)
Usability
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9.3
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
ComponentOneCursor
Likelihood to Recommend
C1 is great for creating custom reports. We have client apps where we've created some fairly complicated reports such as invoices and real estate inspections. We also use the True DBGrid in many of our apps since it is so customizable. Its grouping and filtering features are very nice and can provide summary counts and totals at the bottom or right side of the grid that are very handy.
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As I mentioned, it gets the job done well, and its models are fast- not as precise as I want them to be, but overall good. It can improve its UI and frontend skills so that it could match head-to-head with Anthropic's models.
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Pros
  • The True DBGrid control is nice for showing parent/child relationships and being able to drill down and show the child data. It also is nice for showing summary totals.
  • The report engine is great for building custom reports for Win Forms or web apps. It can do everything that Crystal Reports can do.
  • They have a good selection of controls that can do just about anything you can imagine.
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  • Very fast code indexing.
  • Multi agent experience.
  • Great proprietary models.
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Cons
  • Sometimes it is difficult to figure out where things are in the properties of controls since there are so many things you can drill down into.
  • I find myself using Bing or Google a lot to look up how to do something. Some things are not very intuitive.
  • Of course, I would always like the price to be cheaper. The high price has caused us to not keep current and have the latest version.
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  • Very complex user interface
  • As it generate codes for additional features, it sometimes affects existing funtions
  • Black interface hard to read
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Usability
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it is really easy to set up and to connect with GitHub or any other git manager that you have and our team really loves the fact that whenever we do work, it’s very easy to open PRS for a Sr software staff to check the PRS and just merge it
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Alternatives Considered
We have been in business since 1992, so we have used many different products over the years. The two other products we've primary used that are similar to ComponentOne, are Infragistics and Crystal Reports. Infragistics has a vast array of controls similar to ComponentOne. We use both to be honest and I'm not sure which one I would pick over the other. I guess that would depend on what you're trying to accomplish and if one had some control or capability that the other didn't. ComponentOne does have the reporting capabilities, where Infragistics does not.
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Cursor is superior because its integration is easy; it provides the same benefits as the others, but it does so by managing LLMs in a more intuitive way. The fact that it is now proprietary to SpaceXAI might make the use of Grok more efficient and maybe cheaper for users compared to Claude and Gemini.
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Return on Investment
  • ComponentOne allows us to add additional features to our apps that wouldn't be found in apps written with just Visual Studio itself. That allows our clients to get more creative in their requirements, which in turn, means more work and billable hours for us!
  • Our apps appear more professional when using ComponentOne which helps us get projects for new clients.
  • ComponentOne also helps us to save clients some money since we are not having to develop things that it can do from scratch.
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  • Mostly I have positive impact on Cursor only for implementing complex features and functionalities.
  • Cursor mainly save our development time testing time more than 50%.
  • Cursor helps to improve code quality of our all project folder and files.
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