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Cursor Hobby: Pricing, Models & Limits (2026)

Name: Cursor Hobby
Brand: Cursor
Availability: InStock

Official source

Free

Coding Tool Free New users

What's included

Chat Coding

Quick Verdict

Best for developers evaluating Cursor's IDE agent before upgrading. Limited completions and agent requests make it unsuitable for daily work, but the trial experience accurately reflects the paid product's core flow.

Pricing Details

Monthly

$0.00/mo

Yearly

$0.00/mo (billed annually)

Models & Tools

Available Models

OpenAI models (limited) Claude models (limited) Gemini models (limited) xAI models (limited)

Bundled Tools

Cursor Tab IDE Limited completions

Cursor Agent Agent Limited agent requests

Cloud Agents Agent

Bugbot Agent

Usage & Limits

How it works

Limited Agent requests and Tab completions; no paid usage continuation

What's included

Limited Agent requests and Tab completions; no paid usage continuation

Resets

Policy-based; no fixed public reset window

When limit is reached

No overage path is documented for this plan

Extra usage: Not available

Strengths & Trade-offs

What it does well

Zero-cost access to Cursor Tab completions and Agent, genuine evaluation experience, not a dumbed-down demo
Multi-model support even at free tier, test with Claude, GPT, and Gemini models
Purpose-built coding IDE with agent integration, not a general assistant repurposed for code

Where it falls short

Hard agent request cap, Hobby tier runs out quickly under real coding workloads
No Cloud Agents or Bugbot, background and PR-review agents require paid tier
No overage path, once limits hit, upgrade is the only option with no credit extension