What is Cursor?
Cursor is listed under AI IDEs & Editors, in the Code & Development category on Flocci AI Tools. AI-first VS Code fork with agent mode. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at cursor.com.
What Cursor does
- AI-first VS Code fork with agent mode
- Multi-file edits and terminal commands
- Codebase-wide context and rules
- Free tier with limited requests
Cursor — straight answers
Is Cursor free?
Cursor is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 391 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.
What can Cursor do?
Cursor does 4 things the catalog singles out: Ai-first vs code fork with agent mode; multi-file edits and terminal commands; codebase-wide context and rules; free tier with limited requests.
What is the best free alternative to Cursor?
Void is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same AI IDEs & Editors sub-category and is free. Google Antigravity, JetBrains Junie and Kiro also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.
See the full list →Cursor alternatives
Compare all alternatives →Google Antigravity
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