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GitHub vs Cursor

Compare GitHub and Cursor - features, pricing, and which is better for your workflow.

What is GitHub?

Where the world builds software — Git hosting, pull requests, issues, Actions CI/CD, and Copilot, free for public and private repos.

Price: Freemium

  • Unlimited public and private repositories on the free plan
  • Pull requests, code review, and branch protection
  • Issues, Projects, and Discussions for planning and triage
  • Actions for CI/CD, scheduled jobs, and automation
  • Copilot for code completion, chat, and agent-driven pull requests
  • Codespaces for a full dev environment in the browser
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What is Cursor?

AI code editor built on VS Code — agents that edit across your codebase, run in the cloud, review pull requests, and now host your repos.

Price: Freemium

  • Agents that plan and edit across many files, powered by Composer
  • Tab autocomplete that predicts your next edit
  • Cloud agents that keep working when you close the laptop
  • Bugbot for automated code review on pull requests
  • MCP servers, skills, and hooks for custom tooling
  • Built on VS Code — your extensions, themes, and keybindings carry over
  • Apps for desktop, iOS, and iPad, plus a CLI
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