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Comparison	Cursor✓ The AI-native code editor with $1B+ ARR, 25+ models, and background agents on dedicated VMs Freemium	GitHub Copilot✓ AI pair programmer built into GitHub and popular IDEs Freemium
Category	AI-Powered IDE	VS Code Extension
Pricing	Hobby: $0/month Pro: $20/month Pro+: $60/month Ultra: $200/month Teams: $40/user/month	Free: $0/month Pro: $10/month Pro+: $39/month Business: $19/user/month Enterprise: $39/user/month
AI Models	Claude Opus 4.5Claude Sonnet 4.5Claude Sonnet 4.6GPT-5GPT-5.2+4 more	GitHub-managed frontier model routingOpenAI model families (plan and feature dependent)Anthropic model families including Opus/Sonnet tiers on supported plansAdditional premium model options on paid plans
Context Window	Up to 272K tokens (codebase-wide context via RAG indexing)	Context-aware suggestions based on open files, tabs, and indexed repositories; token limits not publicly documented
Capabilities	Code Completion Code Generation Code Review Debugging Refactoring Testing Documentation Chat Agentic Mode Multi File Voice Input	Code Completion Code Generation Code Review Debugging Refactoring Testing Documentation Chat Multi File
Platforms	macOSWindowsLinux	macOSLinuxWindowsWeb
Languages	All languages supported by VS Code	JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaC++C#+7 more
Open Source	No	No
GitHub Stars	N/A	N/A
Users	1M+ daily active users	Not disclosed
Rating	N/A	N/A
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