Cody
AI coding assistant with codebase context
59
/100
Cursor
AI-first code editor built on VS Code
65
/100
Cody vs Cursor
Detailed side-by-side comparison of features, pricing, and performance
Comparing
Our Expert Verdict
RankTool's data-driven recommendation based on scores, features, and pricing.
Winner
Cursor
by a solid margin
For most users, both Cody and Cursor are strong options. Cursor edges ahead overall, while Cody may be better for specific workflows. Use the category winners and feature matrix below to decide.
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Best for Teams
Cody
Overview
Complete side-by-side specs in one place.
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| RankScore™ | 59 /100 | 65 /100 |
| Category | AI Coding & Development | AI Coding & Development |
| Starting price | $9/month | $20/month |
| Free plan | ✓ | ✓ |
| API available | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | — | — |
| Self-hostable | — | — |
| Platforms | API, VS Code Extension, Cloud SaaS | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Target user | enterprise | individual |
| Learning curve | Advanced | Intermediate |
| Context window | ✓ | — |
| Image generation | — | — |
| Languages supported | ["English"], ["English","Arabic"], ["English","French"] | ["English","Simplified Chinese","Japanese","Traditional Chinese","Spanish","French","Portuguese","Korean","German","Hindi"], ["English"], ["English","Hindi"] |
| Launch year | — | 2022 |
| Company | CODY AI, L.L.C. | Cursor |
| Funding | — | Private / Late-stage or mega-round · $3.3B |
| Team size | — | — |
Pricing Comparison
Plan-by-plan breakdown with what's included at each tier.
Free
Cody
Personal Account
Free
- ✓ Monthly credits: 100 credits
- ✗ GPT-5 Mini
- ✗ GPT-5
- ✗ Claude 4 Sonnet
- ✗ Team members
- ✗ Conversation log
- ✓ Documents: 100 documents
- ✗ Website pages
- ✗ Website crawler
- ✗ Recurring website imports
- ✓ Embed website widget: 1 free website widget
- ✗ Customize website widget
- ✗ Remove Cody branding on widget
- ✗ API
Cursor
Hobby
Free
- ✓ No credit card required: Yes
- ✓ Agent requests: Limited
- ✓ Tab completions: Limited
- ✗ Frontier models
- ✗ Included API usage
- ✗ First-party models pool
- ✗ MCPs, skills, and hooks
- ✗ Cloud agents
- ✗ Bugbot
- ✗ Centralized team billing and administration
- ✗ Team marketplace
- ✗ Shared team context for cloud agents and automations
- ✗ Usage analytics
- ✗ Team-wide privacy mode
- ✗ SAML/OIDC SSO
- ✗ Pooled usage
- ✗ Invoice/PO billing
- ✗ SCIM seat management
- ✗ Repository, model, and MCP access controls
- ✗ Audit logs and service accounts
- ✗ AI code tracking API
- ✗ Priority support and account management
- ✗ On-demand usage
- ✗ Cursor Token Rate
Plus / Pro
Cody
Personal Account
Free
- ✓ Monthly credits: 100 credits
- ✗ GPT-5 Mini
- ✗ GPT-5
- ✗ Claude 4 Sonnet
- ✗ Team members
- ✗ Conversation log
- ✓ Documents: 100 documents
- ✗ Website pages
- ✗ Website crawler
- ✗ Recurring website imports
- ✓ Embed website widget: 1 free website widget
- ✗ Customize website widget
- ✗ Remove Cody branding on widget
- ✗ API
Cursor
Pro
$20/month
- ✗ No credit card required
- ✓ Agent requests: Extended limits
- ✓ Tab completions: Unlimited
- ✓ Frontier models: Included
- ✓ Included API usage: $20/month
- ✓ First-party models pool: Generous included usage
- ✓ MCPs, skills, and hooks: Included
- ✓ Cloud agents: Included
- ✓ Bugbot: Usage-based billing
- ✗ Centralized team billing and administration
- ✗ Team marketplace
- ✗ Shared team context for cloud agents and automations
- ✗ Usage analytics
- ✗ Team-wide privacy mode
- ✗ SAML/OIDC SSO
- ✗ Pooled usage
- ✗ Invoice/PO billing
- ✗ SCIM seat management
- ✗ Repository, model, and MCP access controls
- ✗ Audit logs and service accounts
- ✗ AI code tracking API
- ✗ Priority support and account management
- ✓ On-demand usage: Available at same API rates after included usage
- ✗ Cursor Token Rate
Team
Cursor
Teams Standard
$40/month
- ✗ No credit card required
- ✓ Agent requests: Standard Teams usage allowance
- ✓ Tab completions: Unlimited
- ✓ Frontier models: Public API prices plus Cursor Token Rate where applicable
- ✓ Included API usage: Seat-based included usage across first-party and third-party pools
- ✓ First-party models pool: Included usage for Auto, Composer 2.5, and Grok 4.5
- ✓ MCPs, skills, and hooks: Included
- ✓ Cloud agents: With shared team context
- ✓ Bugbot: Agentic code reviews
- ✓ Centralized team billing and administration: Included
- ✓ Team marketplace: Included
- ✓ Shared team context for cloud agents and automations: Included
- ✓ Usage analytics: Included
- ✓ Team-wide privacy mode: Included
- ✓ SAML/OIDC SSO: Included
- ✗ Pooled usage
- ✗ Invoice/PO billing
- ✗ SCIM seat management
- ✗ Repository, model, and MCP access controls
- ✗ Audit logs and service accounts
- ✗ AI code tracking API
- ✗ Priority support and account management
- ✓ On-demand usage: Enabled by default; billed monthly in arrears unless controlled by spending limits
- ✓ Cursor Token Rate: $0.25 per million tokens on non-Auto third-party model requests
Enterprise
Cursor
Enterprise
Custom
- ✗ No credit card required
- ✓ Agent requests: Custom / pooled usage
- ✓ Tab completions: Included
- ✓ Frontier models: Custom / governed access
- ✓ Included API usage: Custom / pooled usage
- ✓ First-party models pool: Custom / pooled usage
- ✓ MCPs, skills, and hooks: With enterprise access controls
- ✓ Cloud agents: Included
- ✓ Bugbot: Included / custom usage terms
- ✓ Centralized team billing and administration: Included
- ✓ Team marketplace: Included
- ✓ Shared team context for cloud agents and automations: Included
- ✓ Usage analytics: Included
- ✓ Team-wide privacy mode: Included
- ✓ SAML/OIDC SSO: Included
- ✓ Pooled usage: Included
- ✓ Invoice/PO billing: Included
- ✓ SCIM seat management: Included
- ✓ Repository, model, and MCP access controls: Included
- ✓ Audit logs and service accounts: Included
- ✓ AI code tracking API: Included
- ✓ Priority support and account management: Included
- ✓ On-demand usage: Custom terms / order form
- ✓ Cursor Token Rate: $0.25 per million tokens on eligible non-Auto third-party model requests unless custom agreement states otherwise
Monthly cost for a 5-person team
Cody: $45/month
Cursor: $200/month
Feature Matrix
Grouped capabilities — see who has what at a glance.
Other 12 features — Cody: 6/12 · Cursor: 6/12
Feature
Cody
Cursor
Codebase context
✓
✗
Codebase chat
✗
✓
Chat
✓
✗
Multi-file edit
✗
✓
Autocomplete
✓
✗
Composer agent
✗
✓
Custom commands
✓
✗
Tab completions
✗
✓
IDE extensions
✓
✗
Rules
✗
✓
Enterprise SSO
✓
✗
MCP support
✗
✓
Who Should Use What
Pick the tool that matches your workflow.
Choose Cody if you…
- AI coding assistant with codebase context
- Enterprise code AI that understands your entire repository.
Choose Cursor if you…
- AI-first code editor built on VS Code
- IDE with embedded AI for editing, refactoring, and codebase chat.
Ratings Breakdown
All 8 RankScore dimensions compared side-by-side.
Cody
Cursor
Decision scores
Five-dimension breakdown from expert reviews and verified user ratings (1–10 scale).
Cody
Decision score
Expert + user ratings blended per dimension (1–10 scale)
5.0
Overall / 5★ search score
Privacy/Security
5.0
Cursor
Decision score
Expert + user ratings blended per dimension (1–10 scale)
5.0
Overall / 5★ search score
Privacy/Security
5.0
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