Cursor’s new sign-up pricing changed with The X Subscription, announced October 12, 2026. The current pricing page lists Free, Plus $8/month, Premium $30/month, Super $100/month and Ultra $200/month, before applicable taxes or fees. New plans bundle Cursor, Grok and X. Plus supports Grok models only; Premium and above provide access to third-party models, but that usage is purchased separately at API list prices.
Existing subscribers are a separate case: the official announcement says existing Cursor, SuperGrok and X Premium users may retain their current plans, prices and features. Switching is rolling out in account billing settings, with a prorated refund described for the old plan. Confirm the terms shown for your account before switching; do not assume a migration deadline. The global rollout is expected over several days, so account availability should be checked rather than assumed.
The new subscription includes a Grok usage pool shared across Cursor and Grok that resets weekly. Premium, Super and Ultra advertise 4×, 15× and 50× the Plus allowance, not fixed request counts. Third-party models have no included allowance in the new plans and require separate top-ups on Premium and above. New Teams seats cost $30, $100 or $200 per user per month. These terms must not be mixed with retained Cursor plans’ two monthly pools.
Methodology: the new X Subscription prices and transition rules were checked against the October 12 announcement and current Cursor pricing page on October 14, 2026. The retained-plan detail below preserves the September 24 documentation review. Older Cursor model and usage documentation still describes those earlier plans. This is source-based research, not an account, billing or performance test; no account-specific offers, local taxes or eligibility are assumed.
Retained Cursor plans: the earlier price table
| Plan | Earlier price for retained plans | Who it is for | Key pricing note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby | Free | Trying Cursor or light use | Limited Agent requests; no paid subscription required |
| Start | ₹649/month, tax included | Developers in India using Cursor’s own model pool | India only; does not include the third-party model pool or on-demand usage |
| Pro | $20/month | Regular individual users | Includes both monthly usage pools, Cloud Agents and Grok Bot access |
| Pro+ | $60/month | Daily Agent users | 3× Pro Agent limits plus higher Grok Bot usage |
| Ultra | $200/month | Heavy Agent and automation users | 20× Pro Agent limits plus the highest Grok Bot usage |
| Teams Standard | $40/user/month | Teams that need administration, SSO and shared workflows | $32/user/month on annual billing according to Cursor’s 2026 Teams pricing update |
| Teams Premium | $120/user/month | Heavy Agent users inside a team | 5× Standard usage; $96/user/month on annual billing |
| Enterprise | Custom | Organizations needing pooled usage, SCIM, invoicing or advanced controls | Contact sales |
The earlier Cursor pricing page advertised a 20% annual-billing discount. That is retained-plan context and must not be applied to the new X Subscription. New public monthly prices exclude applicable taxes and fees; confirm any annual term and local total in the actual account.
Retained Cursor plans: two monthly usage pools
The following two-pool explanation applies to retained Cursor Pro, Pro+ and Ultra subscriptions, not the new X Subscription. The earlier plans include two separate monthly usage pools:
- Cursor Models pool: usage for Cursor’s current first-party model lineup. Cursor’s current Models & Pricing documentation now names Grok 4.7, Grok 4.6, Grok 4.5 and Composer 2.5 in this pool.
- Other Models pool: usage for supported third-party frontier models, consumed at the model provider’s API price.
For retained Cursor subscriptions, both earlier pools reset with the monthly billing cycle and unused usage does not roll over. Model choice changes how quickly that allowance is consumed. The new X Subscription instead refreshes its shared Grok allowance weekly; third-party model top-ups are separate.
The earlier Cursor documentation says requests are not downgraded in quality or speed after included usage is exhausted. Its stop, on-demand or upgrade choices describe the retained plans. Check the terms of your actual plan rather than applying that monthly model to The X Subscription.
Earlier Hobby plan: free, but deliberately limited
The earlier Hobby plan cost $0 and did not require a credit card. It supported evaluating the editor with limited Agent requests. New pricing calls the free tier Free and describes a starter coding-agent allowance; this does not make old and new allowances equivalent.
Light-use allowances are not a promise of unlimited daily Agent work. For new subscriptions, Plus is restricted to Grok models; Premium and above add third-party model access with separately purchased usage.
Earlier Cursor Start: India-only plan
The earlier Cursor Start documentation lists an India-only ₹649/month plan, tax included. The feature list below records that earlier plan, not a new-sign-up offer or a verified entitlement for an individual account.
- It includes the Cursor Models usage pool.
- It does not include the third-party Other Models pool.
- It does not include on-demand usage.
- It does not include Auto, Automations, Bugbot or the Cursor SDK.
- It does include Cloud Agents, iOS access, plugins, MCP servers, hooks and skills.
In that earlier lineup, Start did not substitute for Pro when third-party models were essential. New X Subscription customers instead need Premium or above for third-party access and pay for that usage separately.
Retained Cursor Pro: $20/month
Retained Cursor Pro is the earlier $20/month individual plan with Agent, frontier-model, Cloud Agent and Grok Bot features. The current pricing page now shows The X Subscription instead. For the retained lineup, the earlier Grok Bot plan documentation say paid individual plans include a weekly Grok Bot allowance; Pro is the entry paid tier, while higher plans raise that included usage.
Pro was the entry paid tier in the retained individual lineup. Existing users can keep their current terms. New customers should compare Plus with Premium and above rather than interpret the old $20 tier as an available sign-up option.
If your actual decision is between Cursor as the development environment and Claude Code as an agent layer across terminal, IDE and cloud workflows, see our Cursor vs Claude Code in 2026 comparison.
Retained Cursor Pro+: $60/month
The retained Pro+ plan was advertised at $60/month with 3× Pro Agent limits and a higher weekly Grok Bot allowance. These comparisons belong to the earlier Cursor lineup, not the new plans. In the earlier documentation, Grok Bot usage was metered by the work performed rather than by a simple message quota.
The earlier Cursor documentation estimates that daily Agent users can consume $60–$100/month in total usage. That is vendor guidance for the earlier billing model, not a guaranteed bill, a fixed quota or a cost estimate for The X Subscription.
Retained Cursor Ultra: $200/month
The retained Cursor Ultra plan costs $200/month and was documented with 20× Pro Agent limits and the highest weekly Grok Bot allowance in the earlier Cursor lineup. The new X Subscription Ultra has the same advertised monthly price but a different basis: 50× the new Plus allowance and separately billed third-party models. The two packages are not interchangeable.
The earlier documentation estimates $200 or more per month in total usage for power users running multiple agents or automations. Treat that as historical vendor guidance. Equal $200 prices do not make retained Cursor Ultra and new X Subscription Ultra the same package.
Retained-plan on-demand usage
On paid plans that support it, you can enable on-demand usage. Once the included usage is exhausted, additional model usage continues at API rates and appears separately from the base subscription.
- On-demand usage must be explicitly enabled.
- It appears as a separate usage line or invoice from the subscription.
- You can disable it if you want requests to stop when included usage is gone.
- The dashboard separates included usage from on-demand usage.
This is an important budget control. A $20 Pro subscription with on-demand usage enabled does not create a $20 hard cap.
Retained-plan Cloud Agent cost guidance
The earlier Cloud Agents documentation says remote agents consume API-priced model usage and asks users to set a spend limit. The new pricing page includes Cloud Agents and automations from Premium upwards. Do not apply the old billing explanation universally to the new shared Grok pool or count the same model usage twice.
This matters when you move from interactive coding to delegated work. A developer who occasionally asks an Agent for an edit has a different cost profile from someone running several remote agents in parallel or using scheduled Automations.
That broader shift is part of the move toward agentic software operations. Our AI Agents in 2026 guide explains why parallel agents, tool access and long-running execution increase both capability and operating cost.
Retained-plan Auto model billing
The earlier Cursor Router documentation states that Auto bills at the list price of the model handling each request. This section records retained-plan billing; it does not establish new-plan routing entitlements or override the separate third-party top-up rules.
That is why old advice based on fixed request counts or the assumption that Auto is effectively free can be misleading in 2026.
Retained Teams Standard vs Premium
The earlier Cursor Teams lineup had two paid seat types plus a free admin-only seat. The following table preserves those retained-plan terms; new X Subscription Teams seats are $30, $100 or $200 per user per month.
| Seat | Monthly | Annual-billing equivalent | Usage model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $40/user/month | $32/user/month | Standard Teams allowance |
| Premium | $120/user/month | $96/user/month | 5× Standard included usage |
| Unpaid Admin | $0 | $0 | Administration only; no Cursor access |
The earlier Teams documentation lists centralized billing, administration, a team marketplace, usage analytics, privacy controls, SSO, Cloud Agents, Automations and Bugbot. New team entitlements must be checked against the current plan comparison; the historical Rollouts announcement below is not evidence that its launch offer is still active.
Usage is allocated per paid user and does not transfer between team members. That makes Premium useful for a small number of very heavy users without forcing the entire team onto the higher seat tier.
September 23 history: Rollouts and Security Review
Cursor launched two new shipping-focused bots on September 23, 2026: Rollouts and Security Review. Both are available on Teams and Enterprise plans, which makes the business tiers materially more than shared billing and admin controls. Rollouts watches a change as it deploys and reports health per environment, while Security Review reads pull requests in the context of the codebase and reports exploitable bugs.
Rollouts can build a monitoring plan from the PR, deployment system, logs, metrics and traces, then report whether the change is healthy, regressed or inconclusive. If it detects a regression, it can open a revert PR for review or hand the finding to a cloud agent for a fix; Cursor says it does not merge or roll back on its own today. Security Review focuses on exploitable issues such as injection, authentication or authorization bypasses, exposed secrets, SSRF, unsafe deserialization and vulnerable dependency changes. Bugbot remains responsible for style and general code-quality review.
Historical launch offer: the September 23 announcement offered Teams and Enterprise trial credits for roughly 50 changes and 500 changes, respectively, during the first 10 days after launch. That original launch window is past as of October 13; no extension or current account credit is assumed. The announcement described enabling the bots in Automations. See the official Rollouts and Security Review changelog.
Retained-plan Cursor Token Rate
The documentation for the earlier Teams and Enterprise plans lists an additional Cursor Token Rate of $0.25 per million tokens on third-party included, on-demand and BYOK usage. The new subscription announcement describes third-party top-ups at API list prices. We have not verified that the earlier extra fee applies to new X Subscription seats, so do not add it automatically.
Cursor’s own first-party models are exempt from that Token Rate.
Retained-plan BYOK terms
The following BYOK explanation records the earlier Cursor plan documentation. It does not establish BYOK availability or charges on The X Subscription; confirm the terms shown for your actual account.
- Individual Pro / Pro+ / Ultra: supported BYOK model requests are billed directly by the model provider and do not draw from Cursor’s included usage pools.
- Teams / Enterprise: the model provider still bills the model cost, while Cursor applies the $0.25-per-million-token Cursor Token Rate to third-party requests.
BYOK therefore does not automatically mean “no Cursor-related usage cost” on team plans.
Enterprise pricing and contract scope
Enterprise pricing is custom. Cursor positions Enterprise for organizations that need pooled usage, invoice billing, SCIM provisioning, audit logs, priority support and more advanced security or administrative controls.
For an existing contract, the distinction is whether per-user allowances or pooled usage apply under that contract. New X Subscription Enterprise combines Grok and Cursor administration and pooled usage; custom pricing still requires a specific offer.
How to estimate your real Cursor cost
For a new X Subscription, budget for the subscription or seat charge, separately purchased third-party model usage, any additional paid usage, and applicable taxes or fees. Avoid counting the same Cloud Agent model consumption twice. The formula below is retained-plan context:
Earlier retained-plan cost model: subscription or seat fees + applicable extra model usage + any contract-specific team charges + taxes. Avoid double-counting Cloud Agent model usage.
Do not try to convert a plan into one universal “requests per month” number. Agent requests vary enormously in context length, model choice, tool calls and output size. Two developers on the same plan can consume very different amounts of included usage.
How the retained Cursor tiers were positioned
| If this describes you | Earlier matching tier | Why |
|---|---|---|
| I am only testing Cursor or use Agent occasionally | Hobby | Learn the workflow before paying |
| I use Cursor regularly but Agent usage is still moderate | Pro | Full individual paid feature set at the lowest global paid tier |
| I use Agent most workdays | Pro+ | Higher included Agent limits align better with daily use |
| I run multiple agents, automations or very heavy daily workloads | Ultra | Highest individual included limits |
| We need SSO, centralized billing and shared team controls | Teams Standard | Business administration without Enterprise procurement |
| A few team members consume much more Agent usage than everyone else | Teams Premium for those users | 5× Standard usage without upgrading every seat |
| We need pooled usage, SCIM, invoices or advanced governance | Enterprise | Those requirements are explicitly positioned above self-serve Teams |
If you are comparing the cost of Cursor with Claude’s broader individual and team subscriptions, our Claude Pricing in 2026 guide explains Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise pricing separately.
Three Cursor pricing mistakes to avoid
- Mixing retained and new plans. Old monthly pools and new weekly Grok allowances use different terms.
- Treating third-party models as included. New Premium and above enable access, but usage costs extra.
- Comparing multipliers without their baseline. New 4×, 15× and 50× compare with Plus, not old Pro. Set spending caps.
FAQ
How much does Cursor Pro cost?
Existing Cursor Pro subscribers may retain the earlier $20/month plan and their existing terms. New customers choose from The X Subscription; the current entry price is Plus $8/month for Grok-only use, while third-party model access starts at Premium $30/month and is billed separately. Applicable taxes and fees are additional.
What is the difference between Cursor Pro, Pro+ and Ultra?
In the retained Cursor lineup, Pro, Pro+ and Ultra differ by included Agent and Grok Bot usage. The earlier advertised prices were $20, $60 and $200/month. New X Subscription plans instead use Plus, Premium, Super and Ultra, with a weekly shared Grok pool; Premium and above support third-party models as separately purchased usage.
Can Cursor cost more than the subscription price?
Yes. On new X Subscription plans, third-party model usage is purchased separately from Premium upwards; additional paid usage and taxes or fees can also increase the total. Existing Cursor plans retain their own monthly allowance and on-demand terms until the subscriber switches.
Is Cursor Teams $40 per user?
The earlier Cursor Teams Standard price was $40/user/month, or $32/user/month on annual billing, and Teams Premium was $120 monthly or $96 on annual billing. These are retained-plan terms. New X Subscription Teams seats are advertised at $30, $100 or $200/user/month; no old annual discount should be carried across without account-specific confirmation.
Is Cursor Ultra unlimited?
No. Neither an old nor a new Ultra label means unlimited model usage. The retained Cursor Ultra plan and new X Subscription Ultra use different allowances, and new-plan third-party usage is separate. Read the terms for the exact plan shown in the account.
Bottom line
First identify whether you are keeping an existing Cursor plan or choosing The X Subscription. New Plus provides Grok-only access; Premium and above enable third-party models at additional cost. Compare actual usage and retained benefits before switching, and check account allowances and spending controls.
Before upgrading, check the Spending or Billing dashboard rather than guessing from request counts. Model choice and agent behavior now determine how quickly your included usage is consumed.
Primary sources
Source check: October 14, 2026 for the new X Subscription and transition rules; September 24, 2026 for the retained-plan documentation preserved above. Some linked documentation still describes earlier plans. Account-specific migration notices, Taiwan eligibility, local checkout prices and any new annual discount have not been verified.
- Cursor — Pricing
- Cursor Help — Grok Bot plans
- Cursor Docs — Models & Pricing
- Cursor Help — Usage and limits
- Cursor Help — Usage-based charges
- Cursor Docs — Team Pricing
- Cursor Docs — Cloud Agents
- Cursor Help — Bring your own API key
- Cursor — Pricing Policy
- Cursor — Improvements to Teams Pricing
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