Cursor vs GitHub Copilot

How the plans compare on price, usage limits and reset windows, generated from our Oct 17, 2026 snapshot. Cursor has the cheaper entry plan ($8 vs $10 per month).

	Cursor	GitHub Copilot
Vendor	Cursor (sold via X Subscription Corp.)	GitHub (Microsoft)
Type	AI IDE + cloud agents	IDE assistant + CLI + cloud agent
Free tier	Yes	Yes
Cheapest paid plan	Plus, $8/mo	Pro, $10/mo
Top individual plan	Ultra, $200/mo	Max, $100/mo
How limits work	Shared usage pool across Cursor and Grok, sized as a multiple of Plus; refreshes weekly. Top-offs available.	Monthly GitHub AI Credits allowance (base + variable 'flex' allotment); resets monthly; paid overage available.
Reset windows	weekly	monthly

Price ladder

What each tool offers at the same monthly price.

$/month	Cursor	GitHub Copilot
Free	Free Limited agent and Chat requests; not quantified.	Free 2,000 completions and 50 chat requests (per FAQ).
$8	Plus Basic shared usage pool (baseline 1x).	—
$10	—	Pro $15/month of GitHub AI Credits ($10 base + $5 flex). Unlimited completions.
$30	Premium 4x Plus usage.	—
$39	—	Pro+ $70/month of GitHub AI Credits ($39 base + $31 flex). Unlimited completions.
$100	Super 15x Plus usage.	Max $200/month total GitHub AI Credits ($100 base; flex amount not shown separately). Unlimited completions.
$200	Ultra 50x Plus usage.	—

Sources

https://cursor.com/pricing (checked Oct 17, 2026)
https://github.com/features/copilot/plans (checked Oct 17, 2026)