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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cursor

    Score9.5 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.

    $20

    per month

    Vim

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/AVim (Vi IMproved) is a highly configurable, free to download and use, Modal Text Editor derived from the classic Unix vi editor. It is designed for terminal-based and graphical text manipulation, prioritizing keyboard-centric efficiency and high-fidelity control over source code and configuration files.

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    CursorVim
    Editions & Modules
    Pro
    $20
    per month
    Teams
    $40
    per month per user
    Pro+
    $60
    per month
    Ultra
    $200
    per month
    Enterprise
    Custom
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CursorVim
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    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.Vim is available as a free download.
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    User Ratings
    CursorVim
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
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    Usability
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    Support Rating
    -
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    User Testimonials
    CursorVim
    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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    Open Source
    I would recommend Vim in any scenario where text files have to be viewed, created, or edited on GNU/Linux computers. Regardless if you need to quickly change a few things in a configuration file, or you need to write up a full document, Vim is great. I wouldn't use Vim to view, edit, or create anything that requires "rich-text". In other words, if you need to format the text (bolding, font colours, word-art, etc), then Vim isn't the tool to use.
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    Pros
    SpaceX
    • API creation.
    • Integrations
    • Plan mode for large tasks.
    • Refactoring.
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    Open Source
    • The efficient modal editing makes it very fast to write/edit code as I think of it.
    • The customization and wide range of plugins let me do very specific things and automate parts of my workflow.
    • The fact that it runs inside a terminal simplifies my window management and just becomes another Tmux window in my workflow.
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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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    Open Source
    • Without a doubt the hardest program to learn. It is a completely different paradigm of thinking compared to other editors
    • By default it doesn't have lots of fancy features you would find in larger IDE programs like code completion and linking
    • It lives in the command line so a user has to be comfortable with this interface
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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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    Open Source
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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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    Open Source
    I don't consider the steep learning curve to be a hinderance on the overall usability. I would rate this a ten, but to be honest a lot of people do get hung up at the beginning and just abandon it. However, for people who have made the moderate effort to get over the hump, nothing can be more usable.
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    Support Rating
    SpaceX
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    Open Source
    There is no commercial support for Vim. Thus, it will not get a mark beyond 5. However, community support is very good. You can easily find solutions for most of the problems in the community.
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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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    Open Source
    Vim's keybindings are a lot more complex than Notepad++. With that, comes a whole bunch of capability that Notepad++ just can't match. Emacs is comparable, in terms of capabilities--because Vim is built into so many unix systems, I chose to learn it instead of Emacs. Knowing both probably isn't a bad idea, but there's enough to learn in either camp to keep you busy
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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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    Open Source
    • It always increases productivity.
    • Sometimes feature discovery is not easy. It could be documented well like how to install a plugin and if it supported well or not.
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