Cursor vs. Sublime Text

Sublime Text

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
Sublime Text	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Sublime Text is a highly customizable text editing solution featuring advanced API, Goto functions, and other features, from Sublime HQ in Sydney.	$80

Pricing

Cursor

Sublime Text

Editions & Modules

Pro: $20
per month
Teams: $40
per month per user
Pro+: $60
per month
Ultra: $200
per month
Enterprise: Custom

Business: $80.00

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Cursor	Sublime Text
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Every 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
	Cursor	Sublime Text
Considered Both Products	Cursor Verified User Anonymous 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 … Incentivized Helpful? GJ Gregory Johnston Jr. Manager, Engineering Systems 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. Incentivized Helpful? Evelyn So, M.Sc Innovation UX Consultant 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 … Incentivized Helpful?	Sublime Text Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text I used to code on Adobe Dreamweaver before. Dreamweaver software was very heavy for my code, but Sublime Text is a much lighter software compared to Dreamweaver, and I can easily use Sublime Text anywhere because its software takes up very little space. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text Easier to use, runs very solid (especially on Mac OS). Syntax coloring is the best. Possibilities to add plugins and custom things is huge. Connection with Github works great (never tested this with the other tools though). Also, our company has chosen this tool so at my current … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text Sublime Text is free and offers a cleaner coding interface. Even if I forgot to save updates to a file, the next time I open it, it's still present. Sublime Text boots faster than the other text editors and is also easy to deploy. Memory consumption of Sublime Text is lesser … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text These are all great but are either too expensive (versus free) or too complicated to hit the ground running. Incentivized Helpful? Rajat Khatri Associate Software Engineering Chose Sublime Text Notepad++ Incentivized Helpful? ankit patel Data Specialist Chose Sublime Text Sublime is more customizable and one can easily modify a lot of its features. On the contrary Visual Studio only has limited customizability features. Sublime text is also very light and not bloated as opposed to visual studio ide. We also chose sublime because it has much … Incentivized Helpful? Al Mubassir Muin Software Engineer Chose Sublime Text Compared to any other text editor I've used, Sublime Text has the best user interface. On Macs, Windows, and Linux, Sublime Text makes editing easier. When I couldn't use Notepad++ on a Windows machine, I used Sublime Text instead. My colleagues started using Sublime Text, so I … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text Even if VIM is a must use for every programmer, [especially] if you work with server files via ssh or similar, for daily use its learning curve is big and difficult. Instead, sublime requires almost no knowledge to start using it and, in a local instance, their performance is … Incentivized Helpful? Tigran Petrosyan Risk Management Specialist Chose Sublime Text Other than Sublime Text, I have not used any other code editors, so it would be hard for me to compare Sublime Text with its competitors. Incentivized Helpful? SA Samer Araabi Research Director Chose Sublime Text We've used both Notepad++ and Atom; both are great but nothing really beats the Sublime Text UI; super intuitive and friendly and does everything you need without overwhelming you with stuff you don't. Other options are free, but for our organization, it was well worth the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text Sublime Text has a bit more flexibility and doesn't take up as much space or memory as some of the larger IDEs. Notepad++ is customizable too, but Sublime Text is better suited for code editing in my experience. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text Visual Studio Code was honestly a tough competitor to Sublime for multi-language projects, and ultimately edged it out for some of the teams I worked with. It's library functionality was far superior, it is 100% open source vs ads, and it has a similar speed. Pycharm and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text Before using Visual Studio Code, we were using Adobe Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver worked well back then, but we were amazed at how much faster and more intuitive Sublime Text was. That's the time that we got into SASS, which made things go so much faster and more efficiently. Also … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text While Microsoft Visual Studio Code has a lot more to offer, it can sometimes be a little too much and get too complicated. I like to keep things simple in text editors which makes Sublime Text my preferred editor. There are a lot of packages that can be installed for Sublime … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text I think Sublime is the most efficient text editor in terms of memory usage, especially compared to VSC. However, VSC is feature-rich and has almost all the features of IDE such as debugging tools and IntelliSense. These features are missing in sublime. There are plugins to … Incentivized Helpful? Bryan McAnulty Owner / Founder Chose Sublime Text Sublime Text beat out everything else we tried. Visual Studio Code which recently became more popular is not as fast and serves a different market than Sublime's general text editing. Incentivized Helpful? Yaniv Vararu Director, Quality & Processes Chose Sublime Text The main reason I moved from using Notepad++ to use Sublime Text was that I moved from Windows OS to Mac OS.... Notepad++ is not supported on Windows based systems, so I had no choice. But my guess is that over the years, I would have probably moved to Sublime Text anyway, since … Incentivized Helpful? Sudha Govindaraju C# Programmer Chose Sublime Text Sublime Text has a better UI compared to any other text editors I have used. Easier to edit text on Sublime Text, even on Mac, Windows and Linux operating systems. Incentivized Helpful? KV Kunal Verma Software Engineer Intern Chose Sublime Text Sublimes text is comparable with the Microsoft Visual Studio Code and NotePad++. However, VS code is far better than [Sublime Text] in terms of the plugins and extensions available in the market. [...] Sublime consumes [...] less memory, compared to the VS code, [which … Incentivized Helpful? Mostafa Dakam IT Administrator Chose Sublime Text I use google keep for taking notes on the go and sharing with my colleagues, sharing tasks for example but for my professional coding I use sublime text, because it has all the features I need to do my work, I use google note on mobile devices but I use sublime on my desktop or … Incentivized Helpful? Divyang Sabhadiya Developer Chose Sublime Text On certain levels all have certain pros and cons but Sublime has community support and a huge future ahead due to its features, making it lead all the others. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text More reliable and intuitive than TextMate or Atom and more feature-filled than an Emacs. The colors/syntax highlighting is superior. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text For users who care a lot about performance (and also battery usage), ST3 is going to win almost every time because its natively built on whatever OS you are running on whereas VSCode is built on top of Electron, which is widely known to have poor performance. As an anecdote, on … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text Sublime Text is powerful, stable, versatile, and lightweight. It's also very affordable, with straightforward licensing terms. Many of the other options that we explored met some of these qualifications, but only Sublime Text checks all of those boxes. For example, NetBeans and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text I think Sublime Text is more elegant and simple to use. Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	Cursor	Sublime Text
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	BBEdit Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	No answers on this topic	Vim Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises	No answers on this topic	Vim Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Cursor	Sublime Text
Likelihood to Recommend	9.6 (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	9.2 (0 ratings)	8.9 (0 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.3 (0 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cursor	Sublime Text
Likelihood to Recommend	Cursor is really great when you care most about access to a variety of models. It's very high-performing for code indexing, meaning models run very fast. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	My CMS has a small window in which I can edit custom HTML/CSS. It can be expanded some, but not as much as I would like. It also displays all code as dark text on a white background. On a page where I am doing extensive custom coding, it is helpful to see it in a larger window and in a color-coded display so that I don't have to strain my eyes as hard. Especially when I'm trying to scan for specific elements and target issues and so that I don't have to scroll endlessly in a tiny window. Incentivized Elizabeth McDaniel Digital Marketing Coordinator Read full review
Pros	Generate code Guide webapp development Guide webapp deployment Evelyn So, M.Sc Innovation UX Consultant Read full review	Sublime Text does an incredible job with appropriate color coding and syntax definitions; makes code extremely readable Tab selection is very well done; easy to see which files have been changed and to compare across multiple files Auto-complete is surprisingly effective and accurate Support for Apple M1 processors already Incentivized SA Samer Araabi Research Director Read full review
Cons	The composer tool can still get more accurate More LLM models automate the creation of folders and files in a project Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	In a world of free and open text editors, Sublime Text does ask for donations. You can use the product freely with only a very infrequent popup asking for donations. You can use it however long you like without paying, but it is well worth it to donate to. People not used to the functionality may need a bit of time to get up to speed using the documentation. An integrated terminal would be nice, but that is just a quibble. It's hard to find many cons with Sublime Text. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	I love this application. It has helped to improve my work. Also, I became so used to the shortcuts that It's hard for me to change to another editor. Incentivized Miguel Useche Wordpress developer Read full review
Usability	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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	This is a programmers tool. As such a lot of the features and benefits are lost on a non-technical user. To get the most out of the tool you need to have a basic crash course in how it works and what it can do. The documentation and community are good, but it takes a bit of time to get up to speed. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Performance	No answers on this topic	It has many handy hacks and shortcuts which enhances its performace. Incentivized Divyang Sabhadiya Developer Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Never had to use their customer support before. There is ample documentation online so it's straightforward to find a solution to any problem you might encounter. For example, I needed to convert a string of HTML code to a properly formatted HTML file to "modify." Easy to do when there are so many users of the product who have needed to do that same thing before. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Sublime is more customizable and one can easily modify a lot of its features. On the contrary Visual Studio only has limited customizability features. Sublime text is also very light and not bloated as opposed to Visual Studio IDE. We also chose sublime because it has much better support for the majority of languages(especially Python) and I primarily work with python. Incentivized ankit patel Data Specialist Read full review
Return on Investment	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Sublime is a cost-effective option for the company, as it isn't prohibitively expensive, and our team prefers it to other options. Speed, customization, and scalability are just some of the advantages of using Sublime Text in our IT department. Our work has been slowed down by faster coding and more accessible debugging apps, both good and bad. Al Mubassir Muin Software Engineer Read full review
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