Cursor is now owned by a space company.
Since August 2026, the AI development tool has been a SpaceX subsidiary. According to an SEC filing, the acquisition put its implied equity value at $60 billion.
Revenue is harder to pin down. The last reported annualized figure was $4 billion in early June 2026, according to Forbes. SpaceX adds a partial period: $608 million in Cursor revenue from August 14 to September 30.
And the company doesn't publish a current number of paying users.
Here you'll find the key Cursor statistics on revenue, users, and pricing, from funding rounds to the new plans. The six key points first:
- The last reported annualized revenue is $4 billion (early June 2026). SpaceX separately reports $608 million in Cursor revenue for August 14 to September 30, 2026.
- Cursor's enterprise page says 50,000+ companies, 64% of the Fortune 500, 100M+ lines of enterprise code per day, and 93% preference in head-to-head evaluations.
- I could not verify a current public count of paying users. Cursor said millions of developers used its product in 2025.
- Cursor raised Series A through D. The SpaceX acquisition, with an implied $60 billion equity value, became effective in August 2026.
- JetBrains' 18% and 12% figures describe workplace use in two different surveys.
- Cursor changed its plans on October 12, 2026. Monthly prices run from free through Plus ($8) and Premium ($30) to Ultra ($200); Teams starts at $30 per user.
1. What Cursor is today
Cursor is an AI development tool made by Anysphere. It launched in 2023 as a fork of Visual Studio Code. With Cursor 3, Anysphere introduced an agent-focused workspace in April 2026 that brings together multiple repositories, local and cloud agents, and a way to switch back to the IDE.
In August 2026, Cursor began an early beta of Origin for paid plans, which includes code hosting, repository views, and pull requests with GitHub sync.
Cursor's October 6, 2026 changelog also announced remote control of local agents through its iOS app. The host computer must remain on and online; the feature is off by default for Enterprise organizations.
Cursor's models and pricing documentation distinguishes Cursor Models from models offered by other providers. As of the research cutoff, the Cursor Models pool lists Grok 4.7, Grok 4.6, Grok 4.5, and Composer 2.5.
The visible table for other models lists Claude Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5, and Sonnet 5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro and 3.8 Flash, GPT-5.6 Luna, Sol, and Terra, plus Meta Muse Spark 1.3. Rates differ by model and mode. The chart shows Composer 2.5 in Standard and Fast mode, plus Claude Sonnet 5.5.
On August 28, 2026, OpenAI said it intended to end direct model access for Cursor after the SpaceX acquisition. OpenAI proposed November 12, 2026, as the date.
The OpenAI Help Center says the final date has not been confirmed and Cursor could end access sooner. For local Chat and Agent requests, OpenAI lists a customer's own API key as an option. The Help Center says this does not apply to every Cursor feature, including Auto, Tab, and cloud agents.
2. User numbers and adoption
Cursor's current enterprise page gives four figures.
- Cursor figure
- 50,000+
- What it describes
- Companies that Cursor says choose its product. The page does not give a count of active or paying individual accounts.
- Cursor figure
- 64%
- What it describes
- Share of Fortune 500 companies using Cursor, according to the company.
- Cursor figure
- 100M+ lines per day
- What it describes
- Daily lines of code written with Cursor, according to the company.
- Cursor figure
- 93% preference
- What it describes
- Share of engineers who choose Cursor in direct evaluations. The page does not explain the sample or comparison method.
Historically, Cursor said it had more than 40,000 “customers” in its August 2024 Series A post. In its January 2025 Series B post, it said millions of programmers used Cursor as their editor.
3. Funding and acquisition
Cursor confirmed the funding amounts in its own posts on Series A, Series B, Series C, and Series D. The Series A and B valuations below come from contemporaneous TechCrunch reports on Series A and Series B.
3.1 Valuation by funding round
The reported valuation rose from $0.4 billion at Series A in August 2024 to $29.3 billion at Series D in November 2025.
gradually.ai3.2 Capital raised per round
The chart shows how much capital Cursor raised in each round. For the seed round, a contemporaneous TechCrunch report gives $8 million for the round and $11 million raised in total by then; no valuation was reported. For Series B, TechCrunch reports $100 million and Cursor itself $105 million; the chart uses Cursor’s figure.
gradually.ai3.3 From funding talks to the SpaceX acquisition
On April 17, 2026, TechCrunch reported discussions about a possible further raise of more than $2 billion at a $50 billion pre-money valuation. The same report said Cursor forecast ending 2026 with an annualized revenue run rate above $6 billion.
SpaceX agreed to the transaction on June 16, 2026, and completed it on August 14. The SEC filing gives an implied equity value of $60 billion for Cursor; consideration was primarily in SpaceX stock. Cursor is now a SpaceX subsidiary.
4. Revenue milestones
Reported revenue rose from more than $100 million at Series B to more than $4 billion in early June 2026.
4.1 Revenue milestones since 2025
The earlier milestones come from Cursor's Series B, Series C, and Series D posts. For 2026, Bloomberg and Forbes reported the later figures.
- Source wording
- Recurring revenue
- Source and qualification
- Cursor, Series B post
- Source wording
- ARR
- Source and qualification
- Cursor, Series C post
- Source wording
- Annualized revenue
- Source and qualification
- Cursor, Series D post
- Source wording
- Annualized run rate
- Source and qualification
- Bloomberg, citing a person familiar with the figures
- Source wording
- Annualized run rate
- Source and qualification
- Forbes, citing a person familiar with the figures
- Source wording
- Annualized revenue
- Source and qualification
- Forbes, citing a person familiar with the figures
The table gives each figure's source wording and source; the chart plots the figures. All values except end of April 2026 ($3 billion) are “more than” figures.
gradually.ai4.2 Valuation relative to revenue
Setting valuation next to revenue at the same point in time shows how much future investors price in. At Series B the reported valuation was 26 times the then-reported lower bound of $100 million, at Series D almost 30 times.
The implied equity value of the SpaceX transaction is still 15 times the lower bound of $4 billion. Because the revenue figures are “more than” statements, these multiples are upper bounds.
gradually.ai4.3 Revenue from business customers
TechCrunch reported in March 2026, citing Bloomberg, that large corporate buyers accounted for about 60% of Cursor's revenue.
Forbes also reported that Cursor said in late May that 75% of its run rate came from “other businesses.” The article also said the enterprise business grew threefold in the first quarter of 2026 compared with the fourth quarter of 2025.
The often repeated $6 billion figure is a year-end forecast reported in April 2026.
4.4 Cursor revenue in the SpaceX quarterly report
In its Q3 results release of October 20, 2026, SpaceX puts Cursor revenue from the August 14 closing through September 30 at $608 million. It is included in the Super Intelligence segment.
This is revenue for a partial period of just under seven weeks. It is neither an annualized figure nor a run rate, so it does not belong in the chart above. Share-based compensation related to the acquisition was $1.217 billion in the third quarter.
5. Workplace use in JetBrains surveys
JetBrains published two different surveys in 2026. The first was its AI Pulse Survey, with more than 10,000 professional developers worldwide. The second was its Developer Ecosystem Survey, with more than 15,000 respondents and statistical reweighting intended to better represent the global developer population.
5.1 Cursor in both JetBrains surveys
The chart shows the published figures from the January AI Pulse Survey and the May to July survey, meaning the share of respondents who used each tool at work. OpenCode appears only in the summer survey at 7%; JetBrains reports no January value.
gradually.aiJetBrains describes the change from 18% to 12% as a slight decline in workplace use.
5.2 Agent tools used, per Pragmatic Engineer
The Pragmatic Engineer survey ran from January 27 to February 17, 2026 among newsletter readers, with 906 respondents. Among the 507 who regularly used AI agents, 39% named Cursor. Claude Code reached 71% and GitHub Copilot 46%. Multiple answers were allowed.
gradually.ai5.3 Respondents' favorite AI tools
Asked which tool they like best, respondents put Cursor at 19%, well behind Claude Code at 46% but ahead of GitHub Copilot at 9%.
gradually.ai5.4 Cursor in the popularity index
Surveys are snapshots. The gradually.ai popularity index tracks demand month by month instead. It combines Google search volume, usage data such as downloads and installs, and news mentions into a score from 0 to 100.
6. Cursor pricing and model costs
Cursor changed its plans on October 12, 2026, as part of The X Subscription. All paid plans share one usage pool across Grok and Cursor. From Premium upward, third-party models are billed separately by usage. According to the announcement, existing subscribers on the earlier Pro, Pro+, and Ultra plans can stay or switch.
6.1 Monthly prices of the individual plans
As of October 13, 2026, the Cursor pricing page lists these monthly prices, excluding taxes and fees.
gradually.aiFree offers limited AI usage without cloud agents. Plus is the introductory plan with Grok models only. Premium brings four times Plus usage, cloud agents, and third-party models at API list price.
Super offers 15 times Plus usage with priority at peak times, and Ultra 50 times Plus usage with the earliest access to new models. Teams starts at $30 per user per month with central billing, administration, and team-wide privacy settings. Enterprise is available as an individual quote on request.
6.2 Included usage per plan
Cursor states the size of the individual plans' usage pools only relative to Plus, not in tokens or dollars. According to the pricing page, the pool refreshes weekly.
gradually.aiCursor's documentation separates two usage pools. Cursor Models have different included limits from third-party models, whose token rates vary by model. Cursor bills Auto requests at the list price of the model that receives each request. Third-party model requests on Teams and Enterprise also incur a Cursor Token Rate of $0.25 per million tokens, including requests routed through Auto.
For a model cost comparison, check the current models and usage pricing table before use.
For more on Claude Code, see my article on Claude Code statistics. Other AI product figures are in my ChatGPT statistics.
Frequently asked questions about Cursor
Yes. SpaceX completed the acquisition on August 14, 2026, as documented in the SEC filing, and Cursor became its wholly owned subsidiary.
TechCrunch reported in April 2026 that Cursor forecast ending the year with an annualized revenue run rate above $6 billion. The latest public figure covered by the sources was more than $4 billion annualized in early June.
The X Subscription includes Cursor alongside Grok and X. Its monthly plans are Free ($0), Plus ($8), Premium ($30), Super ($100), and Ultra ($200).
Teams costs $30, $100, or $200 per seat per month, depending on tier; Enterprise pricing is custom. Prices exclude tax.
Paid plans share a weekly usage pool across Grok and Cursor. From Premium upward, third-party models are billed separately at the model's API list price. On Teams and Enterprise, Cursor adds its Token Rate of $0.25 per million tokens to model API prices for additional usage and requests made with your own API key. The fee applies to direct third-party model selections and to Cursor Router's Balance or Intelligence modes when they route to a third-party model. Cost mode, Cursor models, and individual plans are exempt. For model-level API price comparisons, see the LLM token price index.
