A decision for a beginner, not a spec sheet. Scores are our weights. Prices are the public plans, and anything marked verify on the tool page should be re-checked before you pay.
Pick Cursor if you want a web app or SaaS you will keep editing in a repo.
Pick Kiro if you want a web app or automation you will keep in a repo and review as a diff.
An editor with agents, built for people who can read a diff.
Cheapest verified paid plan: Plus · $8/mo
An agentic IDE that turns a prompt into a spec, then into a diff.
Cheapest verified paid plan: Pro · $20/user/mo
Web app or SaaS
Mobile app
Game
Website or landing page
Automation or script
No code
I can follow a change
I already develop
Last verified 2026-10-19
Individual
Free
VerifiedLimited Agent and Chat requests, and Tab completions on Cursor models (Grok and Composer). No published request count. Third-party models are not available.
The current free plan on cursor.com/pricing. Legacy Hobby is the same kind of limited trial for older accounts.
Individual
$8/mo
VerifiedAnnual is $80/yr on Cursor's pricing docs.
Base weekly pool for Cursor models (Grok 4.7, Grok 4.6, Grok 4.5, and Composer 2.5), shared with Grok. Fast is off and effort is medium. No Auto, Cloud Agents, third-party models, or your own API keys. The pool size is not published as a prompt count.
The entry paid plan. Cursor recommends Premium, not Plus, for new agent users.
Individual
$30/mo
VerifiedAnnual is $300/yr on Cursor's pricing docs.
4x Plus usage of the weekly Cursor-model pool. Adds Cloud Agents, Automations, Origin, Bugbot, and third-party models at API list price from prepaid credit. Third-party models are not included in the $30.
Cursor's pricing page calls this the plan for new AI users.
Individual
$100/mo
VerifiedAnnual is $1,000/yr on Cursor's pricing docs.
15x Plus usage, plus priority model access at peak times. Third-party models bill the same way as on Premium.
The plan Cursor points daily agent users to.
Individual
$200/mo
VerifiedAnnual is $2,000/yr on Cursor's pricing docs.
50x Plus usage, plus earliest access to new products and models. Third-party models bill the same way as on Premium.
For several agents or automations, not a first plan.
Individual
Free
VerifiedAgent, Chat, and Tab with limited usage. No Cloud Agents, Bugbot, or Origin. No on-demand usage. No published request count.
The free plan from before The X Subscription. Not sold to new customers. Left out of budget matching so it does not duplicate Free.
Individual
₹649/mo, tax inclusive
VerifiedCursor Models pool only. No Other Models pool. Fast mode and effort controls are off. No on-demand usage.
Legacy regional plan. The legacy plans page still lists ₹649/mo, tax inclusive. Left out of US-dollar budget matching.
Individual
$20/mo
VerifyTwo monthly pools: Cursor Models and Other Models. Older help text listed $20 of included Other Models usage. The current legacy plans page no longer prints that dollar amount. Unlimited Tab. On-demand after the pools, if you turn it on.
Not sold to new customers. The $20 price is on the legacy plans page. The included Other Models dollar amount is no longer published, so this row stays Verify and does not count toward the budget.
Individual
$60/mo
VerifySame two monthly pools as legacy Pro, with more of each pool. Older help text listed $70 of included Other Models usage. The current legacy plans page no longer prints that dollar amount.
Not sold to new customers. The $60 price is published. The $70 pool figure is not, so this row stays Verify.
Individual
$200/mo
VerifySame two monthly pools, with more of each than legacy Pro+. Older help text listed $400 of included Other Models usage. The current legacy plans page no longer prints that dollar amount.
Not sold to new customers. The $200 price is published. The $400 pool figure is not, so this row stays Verify. New customers buy Ultra on The X Subscription instead.
Last verified 2026-10-19
Individual
Free
Verified50 credits a month. Claude Sonnet 4.5 and open-weight models such as Qwen3 Coder Next, DeepSeek 3.2, and MiniMax M2.1, with rate limits. No add-on credits. Kiro Web is not included.
The 50-credit free allowance is on the pricing page and the billing docs. The free tier is not offered on Kiro Enterprise or in AWS GovCloud.
Individual
$20/user/mo
Verified1,000 credits a month. Premium models, including Auto, Claude Sonnet 5, and Claude Opus 5, where those models are available. Add-on credits at $0.04. Kiro Web uses the same credits.
Price is on kiro.dev/pricing. The credit count is on the billing docs. Prices exclude tax. A first upgrade with social login or Builder ID gets a $20 credit toward the subscription, prorated for the partial month.
Individual
$40/user/mo
Verified2,000 credits a month, with the same paid-plan model access and add-on credits as Pro.
Price on the pricing page. Credit count on the billing docs.
Individual
$100/user/mo
Verified5,000 credits a month. The same feature set as Power, including specs, custom subagents, powers, and hooks.
The $100 price and the 5,000-credit count are on the pricing page's tier list, the billing docs, and Kiro's Pro Max announcement.
Individual
$200/user/mo
Verified10,000 credits a month, the largest self-serve pool, plus add-on credits at $0.04.
Price on the pricing page. Credit count on the billing docs. AWS GovCloud is approximately 20% higher and has no free tier. That regional markup is not a separate dollar row here.
On The X Subscription the included pool refreshes weekly, and unused included usage does not roll over. Legacy Cursor plans reset monthly with the billing cycle.
On a paid X Subscription plan, add prepaid credit or wait for the weekly reset. Third-party models on Premium and above are paid from that credit from the first request.
Plan credits renew at the start of the next billing cycle. Paid subscriptions are processed on the 1st of each calendar month. Unused plan credits do not roll over. Add-on credits, which are paid plans only, last 12 months.
On Free, wait for the monthly reset. Add-on credits cannot be bought on this tier, and Kiro Web is not included.
Cursor's cheapest paid plan the ranking counts is Plus at $8/mo. Kiro's cheapest paid plan the ranking counts is Pro at $20/user/mo.
Cursor is for a web app or SaaS you will keep editing in a repo, scripts and automations next to existing code, and people who can follow a diff even if they did not write it.
Kiro is for a web app or automation you will keep in a repo and review as a diff, developers who want requirements and tasks written down before the agent edits, and a published monthly credit number, instead of an unpublished quota.
Cursor scores 1 out of 5 for someone who does not want to read code. Kiro scores 2 out of 5. Kiro has the higher no-code score. You will be reading diffs. If code on screen is a dealbreaker, use a browser builder. Specs are written in plain language, and you still end up reading a diff. If code on screen is a dealbreaker, use a browser builder.
Cursor: Free includes limited Agent and Chat, plus Tab completions on Cursor's own models. Cursor does not publish a request count. Kiro: 50 credits a month on the perpetual free tier, with Claude Sonnet 4.5 and open-weight models, subject to rate limits. Add-on credits are not available. Kiro Web is not on this plan.