Cursor
AnysphereA code editor built around AI — like having a very fast senior engineer beside you.
Score breakdown
Our verdict
Cursor is our top pick for day-to-day engineering work — once a team gets used to agent mode driving multi-file changes, going back to a plain editor with a chat sidebar feels slow.
It asks you to standardize the whole team on one editor, which is a bigger ask than a plugin, but for engineering-heavy clients the productivity gain has consistently been worth it.
Pros & cons
Pros
- ✓Deep, editor-native AI integration — not a bolted-on sidebar
- ✓Excellent multi-file, whole-codebase-aware editing and refactors
- ✓Fast iteration between chat, inline edits, and agent mode
- ✓Familiar VS Code base means minimal onboarding friction
Cons
- –Another editor to standardize on if your team is split across tools
- –Heavier reliance on cloud model calls than a purely local setup
- –Cost adds up across a large engineering team
Ideal for
- Development teams writing code with AI every day
- Big cleanups that touch a lot of files at once
- Getting a new project off the ground quickly
- Teams already comfortable in VS Code
Pricing
Free Hobby tier · Pro from ~$20/mo · Business and Enterprise per-seat plans
Questions, answered.
Yes — it's a VS Code fork, so most extensions and settings carry over directly.
Yes, it supports bringing your own API keys for several model providers alongside its built-in options.
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