Magic.dev vs Cursor
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Magic.dev
Coding-model research lab; nothing released yet
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Cursor
AI code editor and coding agents, now sold inside The X Subscription
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| RECATOOLS Score | 5.8 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Unknown | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | Free plan: limited agent and Chat requests and a starter allowance for Cursor's coding agents, no card listed |
| Paid from | No product on sale, no price, API or waitlist published (Oct 2026) | $8/month (Plus, Grok models only), Premium $30, Super $100, Ultra $200 |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | — | 1m+ developers |
| Founded | 2022 | 2023 |
| Maker | — | SpaceX |
| Verdict | Magic pursues ultra-long context, with LTM-2-mini trained on up to 100 million tokens, and by its own account compute-efficient pretraining, aimed at automating software engineering. The research write-ups are substantiv... |
Cursor remains one of the strongest AI editors: agents that work across a whole codebase, cloud agents and automations, and Bugbot reviews, with Grok and Composer models included in a weekly allowance. The October 2026 m... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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