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Cursor vs GitHub Copilot

Price, free plan and alternatives, side by side

The comparison in short

Cheapest per year

Cursor

$96/yr

20% less than GitHub Copilot

Who has a free plan
  • Cursorhas a free plan
  • GitHub Copilothas a free plan
Easiest to rebuild

Cursor, GitHub Copilot

With trade-offs

On price, Cursor wins.

Side-by-side comparison

APPLICATIONCursorDevelopmentGitHub CopilotDevelopment
Monthly billing$8/moPlus$10/moPro
Per year$96/yr$120/yr
Billing modelFlat subscriptionFlat subscription
Free tierHobby is free, but Cursor publishes no numeric request allowance; it only says Agent, Chat and Tab usage is limited.2,000 code completions/month; AI-credit quantity is not publicly stated; automatic model selection only
Additional costsUsage is split into included pools that reset monthly without rollover; on-demand third-party model usage is billed in arrears at model/API rates. Cursor Router Cost mode is $1.25/M input tokens, $6/M output and $0.25/M cache read; Bugbot is separately usage-billed.Extra AI credits cost $0.01 each and unused monthly credits do not roll over; Copilot code review can also consume separately billed GitHub Actions minutes.
Can you rebuild it?With trade-offsweekendWith trade-offsweekend
Free alternatives+2+2
Checked on10/20/202610/20/2026
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