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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cursor

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/ACursor 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.

    $30

    per month

    GitHub Copilot

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AGitHub Copilot is presented as an AI pair programmer, that plugs into the user's editor. It then turns natural language prompts into code, offers multi-line function suggestions, speeds up test generation, filters out common vulnerable coding patterns, and blocks suggestions matching public code.

    $10

    per month

    Pricing
    CursorGitHub Copilot
    Editions & Modules
    Team - Premium
    $30
    per month
    Team - Super
    $100
    per month
    Team - Ultimate
    $200
    per month
    CoPilot for Individuals
    $10
    per month
    CoPilot for Business
    $19
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CursorGitHub Copilot
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsCursor is now available as part of The X Subscription. A discount is available for annual billing.—
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    Community Pulse
    CursorGitHub Copilot
    Considered Both Products
    SpaceX
    No answer on this topic
    GitHub
    Chose GitHub Copilot
    I used Cursor AI as well, along with CoPilot. Curson has its own AI editor, but Copilot works with almost every code editor. So I don't need to depend on just one editor, and I get the flexibility to choose my own editors. The billing is also good and doesn't require many …
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    User Ratings
    CursorGitHub Copilot
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (11 ratings)
    8.8
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
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    Usability
    9.4
    (11 ratings)
    8.8
    (7 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CursorGitHub Copilot
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SpaceX
    Less appropriate for people who don't use LLMs to code but instead to create artifacts. Cursor is a fluid development platform, not something that will create an artifact to run in the cloud. Well designed to work on teams, to manage the code and how the LLMs interact with the code itself. Great for deep vibe coding.
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    GitHub
    Copilit is fantastic at the following: 1. Solving simple, well-defined problems, such as implementing an algorithm, manipulating a data structure, or string manipulation and regex. 2. Implementing simple APIs that are mainly CRUD in nature, with moderate business logic inside them, which may involve some processing or passing the data through an algorithm. 3. Implementation of well-defined activities, such as implementing a connection to an Oracle DB using Hibernate or JDBC, or implementing boilerplate code for a backend service to listen to Kafka events. It is not that great when it comes to understanding and implementing code in a proprietary DSL. It struggles when implementing a major feature across a complex codebase. I believe developers should also adopt the trust-but-verify paradigm when expecting highly secure or regulated code from GitHub Copilot.
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    Pros
    SpaceX
    • API creation.
    • Integrations
    • Plan mode for large tasks.
    • Refactoring.
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    GitHub
    • Make code development faster and quicker.
    • Helps write better code standards for projects.
    • Provide the latest functions from the technology.
    • Notifies about the deprecated functions.
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    Cons
    SpaceX
    • The CLI agent can be quite finicky via ACP.
    • It can be hard to understand how much different models will cost.
    • Support can be unresponsive.
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    GitHub
    • The only issue I faced is the context token size, it can be increase.
    • Sometime with agent mode it takes too much time, which can be reduced but I understand it also depends on the complexity of the given task.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SpaceX
    Cursor is the best AI-powered IDE available today. The agents intelligently absorb context from the code, memory, and rules, and are capable of iterating with subagents until acceptance criteria is met.
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    GitHub
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    Usability
    SpaceX
    Cursor is useful for all our developer team. Each and every team member use Cursor for coding and also Cursor has various models like composer, codex, claude and openai models which helps a lot for quality codings. Also Cursor help to create documents in md file format with markdown and preview which helps a lot.
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    GitHub
    I feel that GitHub Copilot's overall usability is good due to its tight integration with Visual Studio and the workspace. However, developers expect greater ease of use, as there is a learning curve to realize productivity gains with the tool fully. I think there is room for improvement in GitHub Copilot's UI integration within Visual Studio.
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    Alternatives Considered
    SpaceX
    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 is the one that has done it the best out of all of the code harnesses that we’ve tried
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    GitHub
    It is useful that copilot integrates so well with vscode, which is a very common IDE. I used Tabnine for a little while but it was not that intuitive, and did not seem as helpful as GitHub copilot was. I have enjoyed GitHub copilot a lot, especially the ease of hitting the tab key and seeing quick progress in my tasks.
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    Return on Investment
    SpaceX
    • Development speed increased at least 25%
    • The result of the final Product is better than before/without it
    • We use it as a standard now
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    GitHub
    • Our ROI of the purchase of Copilot was met in less than a day. The timesave cannot be overstated
    • Programmer boredom/dissatisfaction is down because of less repetetive crud work.
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