I switched to Cursor for my daily work this week. Here's what I found using it on real projects, not demos.
For most professional developers, the $20/month Pro plan delivers genuine time savings within the first week. For casual coders, the free Hobby tier or GitHub Copilot is probably enough.
Cursor is a standalone AI code editor (forked from VS Code) that has become the fastest-growing SaaS product in history — reaching $2B annualized revenue by February 2026. It has over 2 million users, more than 1 million paying customers, and half of the Fortune 500 now use it.
Cursor is built by Anysphere, a San Francisco startup founded in 2022. Unlike GitHub Copilot — which adds AI to your existing editor as a plugin — Cursor rebuilt the editor around AI. It's a fork of VS Code, so your extensions, themes, and keybindings carry over. The transition feels familiar, but the AI features go far beyond what any extension can offer.
TL;DR: Cursor is a standalone AI code editor (forked from VS Code) that has become the fastest-growing SaaS product in history — reaching $2B annualized revenue by February 2026. It has over 2 million users, more than 1 million paying customers, and half of the Fortune 500 now use it.
Anyone else using this? Curious what your experience has been.
(I wrote up the detailed version with benchmark numbers: https://toolbrain.net/cursor-review-2026/)