Comparison · under IB-CODE-2026.2
Cursor vs GitHub Copilot
| Cursor | GitHub Copilot | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Anysphere | GitHub / Microsoft |
| Pricing | Pro $20/mo + token-based SDK usage | Individual $10/mo (moving to usage-based billing June 1 2026); Business $19/user/mo |
| Default model | Composer 2 (proprietary) — switchable to Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.5 Pro | Switchable per prompt — GPT-5.5, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| CLI surface | ✓ | ✓ |
| Eval status | queued | queued |
Comparison pending — neither side evaluated yet
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About each tool
Cursor
Cursor is the IDE-first agentic coding tool with $2B ARR by Feb 2026 (fastest B2B SaaS scaling on record). The Cursor SDK released April 29 2026 exposes the agent harness programmatically for the first time — codebase indexing, semantic search, subagent spawning, hooks, MCP. Evaluations under IB-COD…
GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot has the highest absolute adoption among developers using AI at work (29%, Pragmatic Engineer Feb 2026 survey). The Coding Agent feature (GA September 2025) is the autonomous issue-to-PR mode evaluable under IB-CODE-2026.2 — distinct from the inline-autocomplete experience that gets th…