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Cursor vs GitHub Copilot: which plan fits your work?

Prices for United States, before sales tax Data release 2026.10.16-3, Oct 16, 2026 Rules 2.1.0

Comparing X Subscription Premium and Copilot Pro: individual plans, prices for United States. Change the plans below to compare any other two.

The verdict is being reviewed because facts about these plans changed. The comparison below already shows the current facts.

This page is for developers choosing between Cursor Premium at $30 a month and GitHub Copilot Pro at $10 a month. We compare these two because each is the lowest-priced plan of its product that documents both an agent that works in the cloud and opens pull requests, and automatic pull request review. Cursor Free and Plus include neither, and neither does Copilot Free. We also cover Cursor's lower plans and Copilot Free, Pro+ and Max where they change the decision.

Since October 12, 2026, Cursor's plans are sold as the X Subscription, which also includes Grok and X Premium, so part of the $30 pays for things outside the editor. Everything here comes from the vendors' own pricing pages and documentation, checked on October 12 and 13, 2026. We have not tested either product yet, so nothing on this page is a claim about the quality of their code or their reviews.

Side by side

Price

Price (United States)
X Subscription Premium

$30 a month or $300 a year

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro

$10 a month

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Models and limits

Top models included
X Subscription Premium
YesLimits vary

Latest Grok models (Grok 4.7) and Composer 2.5 from the shared pool; third-party models (Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-5.6 Sol, Gemini 3.1 Pro, etc.) available but billed separately at API list price via top-ups.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
YesLimits vary

'A selection of models': Claude Sonnet 5.5, Haiku 5.5, GPT-5.6 Terra/Luna, GPT-6 Luna, GPT-5.4, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Grok 4.7, Kimi K3, MAI-Code. Not included: Claude Opus/Fable, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-6/6.1 Sol.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Context window
X Subscription Premium
YesLimits vary

Grok 4.7: 256k standard window, 500k long context (input over 256k billed at 2x). Pay-per-use third-party models go higher, e.g. Claude Opus 5.5 up to 1M tokens.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
YesLimits vary

Optional 1 million token context for supported models, in VS Code and Copilot CLI only; uses more AI credits. Default context size per model not stated on the pages checked.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Models from several companies
X Subscription Premium
YesLimits vary

Pick models from SpaceXAI (Grok), Cursor (Composer), Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta (Muse Spark); third-party models are not in the included pool and are billed at API list price.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
YesLimits vary

Choose models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Moonshot (Kimi) and Microsoft (plan decides which); auto selection also offered with a 10% model-cost discount.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

General-purpose assistant
X Subscription Premium
YesLimits vary

Cursor itself is coding-only, but this X Subscription tier bundles Grok Chat, a general-purpose chatbot, sharing the same usage pool.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Not applicable

Docs scope Copilot to software work: code, repositories and development concepts. General questions shown are programming-related; not positioned as an everyday writing assistant.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Research and sources

Web search with sources
X Subscription Premium
Yes

Agent has a built-in Web tool that runs web searches (Agent is ticked on every plan). Whether answers show source links is not documented.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Yes

Optional Bing web search for Copilot Chat (off by default; enable 'Copilot access to Bing' in settings). Setting listed for Free, Pro, Pro+ and Max. Display of source links not confirmed on the page fetched.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Deep research reports
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

No multi-step research-report mode documented for Cursor plans; Projects coordinate many agents on code work, not research reports.

Verified Oct 13, 2026

Copilot Pro
Unclear

No research-report mode documented; cloud agent can do 'deep research of a repository' (code research only, paid plans).

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Files and data

File and document uploads
X Subscription Premium
Yes

Agent can read image files (.png, .jpg, .gif, .webp, .svg) into chat for vision-capable models; iOS app lets you attach photos or files. PDF/document upload into chat is not documented.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
YesLimits vary

Attach images and PDFs to chat prompts (GitHub.com, IDE, CLI) when using a model that supports image input.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Spreadsheet and data analysis
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

Agent can run terminal commands (so it could run scripts), but spreadsheet/CSV analysis is not documented as a feature.

Verified Oct 13, 2026

Copilot Pro
Unclear

Spreadsheet/CSV analysis with computation not documented as a feature.

Verified Oct 13, 2026

Coding

Coding agent
X Subscription Premium
YesLimits vary

Cursor Agent (edits files, runs terminal commands, searches code) ticked on every plan; Free is limited, paid tiers scale usage (Plus base, Premium 4x, Super 15x, Ultra 50x Plus).

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
YesLimits vary

Agent mode in VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Eclipse and Xcode, plus Copilot CLI; consumes AI credits.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Works in your code editor
X Subscription Premium
Yes

Own editor (Cursor); Cursor agent inside IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm and other JetBrains IDEs via ACP (2025.1+, uses your Cursor plan); Xcode 26.3+ projects via MCP bridge.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Yes

Extensions for VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Xcode, Eclipse, Neovim, Zed, SQL Server Management Studio and Raycast; features vary by IDE (see feature matrix).

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Code completions as you type
X Subscription Premium
YesLimits vary

Tab autocomplete (multi-line, cross-file, next-edit jumps). xAI says Premium includes Cursor Pro benefits, and Cursor Pro listed unlimited tab completions; the new pricing page itself states no Tab limit.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Yes

Inline suggestions and next edit suggestions are unlimited and do not consume AI credits.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Background coding agent
X Subscription Premium
YesLimits vary

Cloud Agents & automations: run in cloud VMs on GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket/Azure DevOps repos, work on a branch and open PRs; start from web, Slack, GitHub comments, iOS. Uses shared pool.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
YesLimits vary

Copilot cloud agent researches a repo, plans and codes in a cloud dev environment and opens a PR; GitHub-hosted repos only, one repo/branch/PR per task, 59-minute session limit; uses AI credits.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Pull request review
X Subscription Premium
YesLimits vary

Bugbot reviews GitHub/GitLab pull requests automatically on each update, comments with bugs, security issues and fix suggestions. Included from Premium; usage-based.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
YesLimits vary

Copilot code review on GitHub PRs (manual or automatic for PRs you create) and file-diff review in editors; ~$0.05-$1 (Lite) or $0.25-$5 (Balanced) of AI credits per review.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Images, video and voice

Image generation
X Subscription Premium
YesLimits vary

Grok Imagine image generation bundled in The X Subscription; Cursor Agent also has a tool that generates images into the project's assets/ folder. Draws on the shared usage pool.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Unclear

Image generation not documented for Copilot.

Verified Oct 13, 2026

Video generation
X Subscription Premium
YesLimits vary

Grok video generation is bundled from Premium up (pricing table tick); draws on the shared usage pool.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Unclear

Video generation not documented for Copilot.

Verified Oct 13, 2026

Real-time voice
X Subscription Premium
YesLimits vary

Via bundled Grok Voice (not inside the Cursor editor; the Cursor iOS app offers dictation only). Uses the shared pool.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Unclear

Only voice input (dictating prompts) is documented for Copilot CLI; no spoken two-way conversation documented.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Image editing and design

Photo editing
X Subscription Premium
YesLimits vary

Grok Imagine (bundled with The X Subscription) edits images: Image 2.0's magic wand edits the region you point at, plus segmentation, multi-image editing (up to 5 inputs) and a Photo Edit template. Draws on the plan's shared Cursor and Grok usage pool.

Verified Oct 16, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Unclear

No GitHub page documents image generation or editing in Copilot; the plans page lists image input only.

Verified Oct 16, 2026

Background removal
X Subscription Premium
YesLimits vary

Grok Imagine Image 2.0 has background removal that exports a subject with a transparent background, and a 'BG Removal & Change' template. Draws on the plan's shared Cursor and Grok usage pool.

Verified Oct 16, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Unclear

No GitHub page documents background removal in Copilot.

Verified Oct 16, 2026

Text inside images
X Subscription Premium
YesLimits vary

xAI says Imagine Image 2.0 plans typography and layout so small text comes out sharp (Quality Mode on grok.com/imagine and the apps). Draws on the plan's shared Cursor and Grok usage pool.

Verified Oct 16, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Unclear

No GitHub page documents image generation in Copilot, so text in images is not described.

Verified Oct 16, 2026

Logo maker
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

No logo template is documented for Grok Imagine; its templates include Mascot Maker, Icon Maker and Merch Maker, none described as a logo maker.

Verified Oct 16, 2026

Copilot Pro
Unclear

No GitHub page documents a logo maker in Copilot.

Verified Oct 16, 2026

Vector (SVG) files
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

No xAI or Cursor page documents SVG or vector export from Grok Imagine.

Verified Oct 16, 2026

Copilot Pro
Unclear

No GitHub page documents vector or SVG export as a Copilot feature.

Verified Oct 16, 2026

Upscaling
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

No xAI page documents image upscaling for Grok Imagine; 'Smart resize' changes the aspect ratio by filling in the frame, which is not described as upscaling.

Verified Oct 16, 2026

Copilot Pro
Unclear

No GitHub page documents image upscaling in Copilot.

Verified Oct 16, 2026

Video editing and presenters

Photo to video
X Subscription Premium
YesLimits vary

Bundled Grok Imagine (grok.com/imagine, iOS, Android) animates an image into video, up to 1080p, with up to 7 image references; draws on the shared weekly usage pool.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Not applicable

GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant; its plans page lists no video features and no bundled video app.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Footage editing
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

Grok Imagine video editing is documented only for the xAI API (billed separately, not from the plan pool); no official page documents footage editing in the Grok apps or Cursor.

Verified Oct 15, 2026

Copilot Pro
Not applicable

GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant; its plans page lists no video features and no bundled video app.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Avatar presenters
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

No Cursor or xAI page documents a digital presenter in the bundled Grok apps.

Verified Oct 15, 2026

Copilot Pro
Not applicable

GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant; its plans page lists no video features and no bundled video app.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Lip sync
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

Grok Imagine generates dialogue with synced speech, but no official page documents lip syncing existing video to new audio.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Not applicable

GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant; its plans page lists no video features and no bundled video app.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Automatic captions
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

No Cursor or xAI page documents automatic video captions.

Verified Oct 15, 2026

Copilot Pro
Not applicable

GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant; its plans page lists no video features and no bundled video app.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Clips from long videos
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

No Cursor or xAI page documents turning long videos into short clips.

Verified Oct 15, 2026

Copilot Pro
Not applicable

GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant; its plans page lists no video features and no bundled video app.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Exports without a watermark
X Subscription Premium
No

Grok Imagine images and videos carry a visible Grok watermark; there is no setting to remove it.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Not applicable

GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant; its plans page lists no video features and no bundled video app.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

App building and hosting

Apps from a description
X Subscription Premium
YesLimits vary

Grok Build in Grok (web, iOS, Android) builds an app, game, website or dashboard from a description, live in the chat. Grok Build ticked on this plan; uses the shared usage pool.

Verified Oct 16, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
No

GitHub Spark, Copilot's app builder, is 'Not included' on this plan in the plans docs, and it stopped accepting new users and apps on August 4, 2026. GitHub points builders to Copilot in VS Code, Copilot CLI and the Copilot app, which are coding agents.

Verified Oct 16, 2026 · Source

Hosting and publishing
X Subscription Premium
YesLimits vary

Apps you publish from Grok Build get their own grok.me address; you choose just you, anyone with the link, or the whole internet. Grok Build ticked on this plan; uses the shared usage pool.

Verified Oct 16, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
No

No hosting for new apps: GitHub Spark, which deployed apps, is not included on this plan and closed to new apps on August 4, 2026.

Verified Oct 16, 2026 · Source

Custom domain
X Subscription Premium
Yes

Grok Build lets you point a domain you own at a published app.

Verified Oct 16, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
No

No Copilot app hosting on this plan (GitHub Spark is not included and closed to new apps), so there is no domain to set.

Verified Oct 16, 2026 · Source

Database and sign-in
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

No xAI page documents a database or user sign-in for Grok Build apps; it describes apps 'with real state and logic', secrets for third-party API keys, and connectors for dashboards.

Verified Oct 16, 2026

Copilot Pro
No

No Copilot app builder on this plan (GitHub Spark is not included and closed to new apps), so no built-in app storage.

Verified Oct 16, 2026 · Source

Code export
X Subscription Premium
Yes

Grok Build can push the whole project to a GitHub repo to continue in an editor or in the Grok Build terminal agent; Cursor itself edits code in your local project.

Verified Oct 16, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Yes

Copilot writes code into your own files and repos: agent mode edits your local project and Copilot cloud agent works in your GitHub repositories. Spark users could export an app to a repository until August 31, 2026.

Verified Oct 16, 2026 · Source

Music, voice and transcription

Songs with vocals
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

No official Cursor or Grok page found that describes generating songs with vocals; the plan table covers Grok Chat, Imagine (images, video from Premium) and Voice.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Not applicable

GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant and does not generate music.

Verified Oct 15, 2026

Instrumental music
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

No official Cursor or Grok page found that describes generating instrumental music.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Not applicable

GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant and does not generate music.

Verified Oct 15, 2026

Separate stems
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

No official Cursor or Grok page describes stem downloads.

Verified Oct 15, 2026

Copilot Pro
Not applicable

GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant with no music or audio output to split into stems.

Verified Oct 15, 2026

Voiceover from text
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

Text to Speech exists in the Grok Voice API suite ($15 per 1M characters), not as a plan feature. Paid plans include Grok API access, but API usage is billed separately and does not draw from the plan pool.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Not applicable

GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant and does not produce voiceovers from text.

Verified Oct 15, 2026

Voice cloning
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

Voice Cloning exists in the Grok Voice API suite (clone from two minutes of speech, 30 free clones), not as a plan feature. Paid plans include Grok API access, but API usage is billed separately and does not draw from the plan pool.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Not applicable

GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant and does not create synthetic voices.

Verified Oct 15, 2026

Dubbing into other languages
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

Grok Voice lists 'Live Translation' (speak in one language, be heard in another) as Coming Soon; no plan includes dubbing today.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Not applicable

GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant and does not translate or re-voice audio or video.

Verified Oct 15, 2026

Sound effects
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

No official Grok or Cursor page describes generating stand-alone sound effects from a description.

Verified Oct 15, 2026

Copilot Pro
Not applicable

GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant and does not generate audio.

Verified Oct 15, 2026

Transcription
X Subscription Premium
YesLimits vary

Grok chats accept audio (MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, FLAC, AAC) and video (MP4, MOV) uploads up to 150 MB and can transcribe and interpret them; quality varies. Uses the shared weekly Grok and Cursor usage pool.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Not applicable

GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant and does not transcribe recordings or audio and video files.

Verified Oct 15, 2026

Meeting notes
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

No official Cursor or Grok page describes joining or recording meetings and writing notes.

Verified Oct 15, 2026

Copilot Pro
Not applicable

GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant and does not join or record meetings.

Verified Oct 15, 2026

Dictation into any app
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

No official page describes system-wide dictation; the Cursor iOS app offers dictation inside the app only (per earlier catalog research).

Verified Oct 15, 2026

Copilot Pro
Not applicable

GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant and does not offer system-wide dictation into other apps.

Verified Oct 15, 2026

Projects and memory

Projects
X Subscription Premium
YesLimits vary

Cursor Projects (beta): a coordinator agent per repo runs cloud agents, keeps synced shared-context files across months; plus version-controlled project rules in .cursor/rules on every plan.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Yes

Copilot Spaces: collect repos, files and other sources as shared context for Copilot Chat on GitHub (and in IDE via GitHub MCP server); share privately, with users or publicly. Plus repository/personal custom instructions.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Custom assistants
X Subscription Premium
Yes

Custom subagents (markdown files in .cursor/agents with own prompt, tools and model), plus skills and plugins; usable in editor, CLI and Cloud Agents. No plan restriction stated.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Yes

Custom agents: Markdown agent profiles (.github/agents/NAME.md) with prompt, tools and MCP servers; usable in cloud agent, CLI, VS Code, JetBrains, Eclipse, Xcode. Plans page ticks 'Custom instructions and agents' on all plans.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Memory across chats
X Subscription Premium
YesLimits vary

Project-scoped only: Projects keep synced files where agents record what they learn about the codebase and your preferences; Bugbot can save '@cursor remember' facts as rules. No general cross-chat memory documented.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Yes

Copilot Memory (public preview): stores repository facts and personal preferences across sessions, validated against code; unused entries deleted after 28 days; you can view/delete your preferences.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Integrations and agents

Connectors to other apps
X Subscription Premium
Yes

MCP servers (e.g. Google Drive, Notion) connect Agent to external tools; installed from Customize or mcp.json. Slack/Linear/GitHub etc. integrations mainly drive Cloud Agents (Premium+).

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Yes

Model Context Protocol (MCP) server integration on all individual plans; GitHub MCP Server; cloud agent integrations with Slack, Teams, Jira, Linear, Azure Boards (paid).

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Inside Gmail
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

No official page describes a Cursor or Grok add-on inside Gmail. Cursor's Gmail plugin (Aug 3, 2026) and Grok's Gmail connector work from Cursor or Grok chat, not inside Gmail. Grok for Google Workspace lists Docs, Sheets and Slides only.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Unclear

GitHub's Copilot plans and features docs list IDEs, GitHub.com, GitHub Mobile, Windows Terminal, Copilot CLI and the Copilot app, plus Slack, Teams, Jira, Linear and Azure Boards integrations. No official GitHub page mentions an add-in inside Gmail.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Inside Google Docs
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

Grok for Google Workspace (Jul 24, 2026) works inside Google Docs as a free add-on, but no official page says which plans can use it; the Workspace Marketplace listing only says 'Free of charge'. Cursor itself has only a connector-style plugin.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Unclear

GitHub's Copilot plans and features docs list IDEs, GitHub.com, GitHub Mobile, Windows Terminal, Copilot CLI and the Copilot app, plus Slack, Teams, Jira, Linear and Azure Boards integrations. No official GitHub page mentions an add-in inside Google Docs.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Inside Google Sheets
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

Grok for Google Workspace (Jul 24, 2026) works inside Google Sheets as a free add-on, but no official page says which plans can use it; the Workspace Marketplace listing only says 'Free of charge'. Cursor itself has only a connector-style plugin.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Unclear

GitHub's Copilot plans and features docs list IDEs, GitHub.com, GitHub Mobile, Windows Terminal, Copilot CLI and the Copilot app, plus Slack, Teams, Jira, Linear and Azure Boards integrations. No official GitHub page mentions an add-in inside Google Sheets.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Inside Word
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

Grok for Word (bundled Grok) is a free add-in, but its Microsoft Marketplace listing names only legacy plans: SuperGrok, Heavy, Business and Enterprise. No official page maps that to The X Subscription Plus, Premium, Super or Ultra.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Unclear

GitHub's Copilot plans and features docs list IDEs, GitHub.com, GitHub Mobile, Windows Terminal, Copilot CLI and the Copilot app, plus Slack, Teams, Jira, Linear and Azure Boards integrations. No official GitHub page mentions an add-in inside Word.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Inside Excel
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

Grok for Excel (bundled Grok) is a free add-in, but its Microsoft Marketplace listing names only legacy plans: SuperGrok, Heavy, Business and Enterprise. No official page maps that to The X Subscription Plus, Premium, Super or Ultra.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Unclear

GitHub's Copilot plans and features docs list IDEs, GitHub.com, GitHub Mobile, Windows Terminal, Copilot CLI and the Copilot app, plus Slack, Teams, Jira, Linear and Azure Boards integrations. No official GitHub page mentions an add-in inside Excel.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Inside PowerPoint
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

Grok for PowerPoint (bundled Grok) is a free add-in, but its Microsoft Marketplace listing names only legacy plans: SuperGrok, Heavy, Business and Enterprise. No official page maps that to The X Subscription Plus, Premium, Super or Ultra.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Unclear

GitHub's Copilot plans and features docs list IDEs, GitHub.com, GitHub Mobile, Windows Terminal, Copilot CLI and the Copilot app, plus Slack, Teams, Jira, Linear and Azure Boards integrations. No official GitHub page mentions an add-in inside PowerPoint.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Inside Outlook
X Subscription Premium
YesLimits vary

Grok for Outlook (bundled Grok, Jul 21, 2026) runs beside your inbox: summarizes threads, drafts replies, triages mail. For all paid X and SuperGrok users; X Subscription paid plans include X Premium benefits once you connect your X account.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Unclear

GitHub's Copilot plans and features docs list IDEs, GitHub.com, GitHub Mobile, Windows Terminal, Copilot CLI and the Copilot app, plus Slack, Teams, Jira, Linear and Azure Boards integrations. No official GitHub page mentions an add-in inside Outlook.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Browser agent
X Subscription Premium
Yes

Agent's Browser tool controls a browser to navigate, click and screenshot (for testing your app). No general computer-use agent documented.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Unclear

Copilot agents work in your editor, terminal or a cloud dev environment; no browser- or computer-operating agent documented on the pages checked.

Verified Oct 13, 2026

Privacy and control

Opt out of model training
X Subscription Premium
Yes

Privacy Mode in settings: code data not used for training by Cursor or model providers (ZDR agreements). With Privacy Mode off, Cursor may use codebase data and prompts to train.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Yes

Since Apr 24 2026 GitHub may train on Free/Pro/Pro+/Max interaction data by default; you can opt out anytime ('Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training' -> Disabled).

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Export your data
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

No chat-history or account data export documented on the pages checked.

Verified Oct 13, 2026

Copilot Pro
Unclear

Plans FAQ only points to the GitHub Privacy Statement for access/deletion; no Copilot chat-history export documented.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Shows ads
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

No ads documented inside Cursor. The bundled X component shows timeline ads by tier: Free none removed, Plus 'Less timeline ads', Premium+ ad-free on 'most surfaces'.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Unclear

Advertising not mentioned on the pages checked.

Verified Oct 13, 2026

Rights and licensing

Commercial use of outputs
X Subscription Premium
Yes

Cursor terms assign Suggestions (generated code) to you; SpaceXSI consumer terms (Grok) say you keep ownership of User Content, which includes Output, but using Output with its name or brand needs permission and attribution.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Unclear

Not stated as a permission: GitHub's Terms (Section J) say GitHub does not claim ownership of Output and set no commercial-use ban; no page grants commercial use in so many words.

Verified Oct 15, 2026 · Source

Apps and extras

Cloud storage included
X Subscription Premium
Unclear

No general cloud storage. Premium+ includes 'Code hosting via Origin' (Cursor's git forge, early beta); no storage quota stated.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Unclear

No cloud storage bundled with Copilot is documented.

Verified Oct 13, 2026

Apps
X Subscription Premium
Yes

Cursor desktop editor, Cursor CLI (macOS/Linux/WSL/Windows), web agents at cursor.com/agents, iOS/iPadOS app (docs list paid plans), JetBrains IDEs via ACP; Grok apps and X via the bundle.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

Copilot Pro
Yes

IDE extensions (VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Xcode, Eclipse, Neovim, Zed, SSMS, Raycast), Copilot CLI, GitHub Copilot app (desktop), github.com and GitHub Mobile. Docs: all plans include CLI and Copilot app.

Verified Oct 13, 2026 · Source

What you pay, and what the price covers

Copilot Pro costs $10 a month and Cursor Premium $30 a month, both sold monthly only to new subscribers (GitHub says annual Pro plans are legacy). Cursor's prices are before tax; GitHub's pages we checked do not say whether tax is included.

Copilot is a coding tool only: GitHub scopes it to software work, image and video generation are not documented, and voice is documented only as dictating prompts in Copilot CLI. Cursor Premium is a tier of the X Subscription, and xAI says it bundles SuperGrok, Cursor Pro and X Premium+. Grok Chat, Imagine, Voice and video generation draw on the same pool as your coding. If you would not use Grok or X, compare the two on coding features alone.

Where you write code

GitHub documents extensions for VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Xcode, Eclipse, Neovim, Zed and more, with agent mode in VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Eclipse and Xcode, plus Copilot CLI and a desktop app. Features vary by editor.

Cursor is its own editor. Besides it, Cursor documents a command line tool, web agents at cursor.com/agents, an iOS and iPadOS app, its agent inside JetBrains IDEs 2025.1 or later through ACP, and Xcode 26.3 or later projects through an MCP bridge. Neovim, Eclipse and Visual Studio support is not documented for Cursor.

Completions and the agent in your editor

On Copilot Pro, inline suggestions and next edit suggestions are unlimited and use no AI credits. Cursor's Tab autocomplete gives multi-line and cross-file suggestions and jumps to your next edit. Cursor's new pricing page does not state a Tab limit; for Premium, xAI says the plan includes Cursor Pro benefits, and Cursor Pro listed unlimited Tab completions.

Cursor Agent edits files, runs terminal commands and searches code, and its Browser tool can open, click and screenshot pages to test your app. Copilot's agent mode runs in five editors and the CLI and spends AI credits; a browser-operating agent is not documented for Copilot.

Cloud agents and pull request review

Copilot's cloud agent researches a repository, plans, codes in a cloud development environment and opens a pull request. GitHub documents three limits: GitHub-hosted repos only, one repo, branch and pull request per task, and a 59-minute session. Cursor's cloud agents run in cloud machines on GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or Azure DevOps repos, work on a branch and open pull requests; you can start them from the web, Slack, GitHub comments or the iOS app. No session length is stated on the Cursor pages we checked.

Copilot code review works on GitHub pull requests, manually or automatically for pull requests you create. GitHub estimates about $0.05 to $1 of credits per review in Lite mode and $0.25 to $5 in Balanced. Bugbot reviews GitHub and GitLab pull requests automatically on each update and comments with bugs, security issues and fix suggestions; Cursor calls it usage-based and states no cost per review. Whether either agent's code works, or either review is useful, only testing shows: run our code repair, code spec and code refactor kits through both.

Models and how extra use is billed

Copilot Pro pays for models from 1,500 GitHub AI Credits a month (1,000 base plus 500 flex, worth $0.01 each; GitHub says flex may change). Pro includes a selection such as Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5, GPT-5.6 Terra, GPT-6 Luna, Gemini 3.8 Flash and Grok 4.7. Claude Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1, GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6.1 Sol are not on Pro; Pro+ ($39) includes them. Past the allowance you pay from a dollar budget you set.

Cursor Premium includes Grok 4.7 and Composer 2.5 in a pool 4 times the size of Plus, refreshed weekly and shared with Grok. Models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta, such as Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-5.6 Sol and Gemini 3.1 Pro, are billed on top at API list price through top-ups, with spending caps. For long context, Copilot offers an optional 1 million tokens in VS Code and Copilot CLI only, at a higher credit cost; in Cursor, Grok 4.7 has a 256K window, or 500K as long context, and Claude Opus 5.5 up to 1 million tokens, paid per use.

Privacy and training

Since April 24, 2026, GitHub may train on interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, Pro+ and Max by default. To stop it, set "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training" to Disabled. Cursor's Privacy Mode keeps your code data out of training by Cursor and by model providers; with it off, Cursor may train on codebase data and prompts. Cursor's default setting is not documented on the pages we checked, so check it before you open private code. A chat history export is not documented for either.

Free tiers and other plans

Copilot Free includes 2,000 completions a month and limited chat and agent use, with auto model selection only; GitHub's plans FAQ still says 50 chat requests a month, so the chat limit is not verified. Cursor Free has limited agent and chat requests and no third-party models. Cursor Plus, an introductory $8 a month, has Grok models only. Neither Cursor tier includes cloud agents or Bugbot.

Copilot Pro+ ($39, 7,000 credits) adds premium models, hand-off to Claude and Codex agents and GitHub Spark; Max ($100, 20,000 credits) adds priority model access. Cursor Super ($100) and Ultra ($200) raise the pool to 15 and 50 times Plus. Verified students get a free Copilot Student plan; Cursor documents no student discount, only campus promotions.

How this page was made

The What the tech desk wrote this page with AI assistance, from the facts in our data release; our methodology explains how they are collected. Every plan is on the Cursor and GitHub Copilot pages, and the other coding tools are on coding.

Which one for which situation

Your repos are on GitLab, Bitbucket or Azure DevOps

Cursor Premium. Its cloud agents are documented for GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps repos, and Bugbot for GitHub and GitLab pull requests. Copilot's cloud agent works on GitHub-hosted repos only.

You work in Neovim, Eclipse or Visual Studio

Copilot Pro. GitHub documents extensions for all three, with agent mode in Eclipse and Visual Studio. Cursor documents its own editor, JetBrains IDEs and Xcode; the other three are not documented.

You want Claude Opus 5.5

Copilot Pro does not include it; Pro+ at $39 a month does, paid from credits. Cursor Premium offers it on top of the $30, at API list price with spending caps. Compare your expected usage before you pick.

You mainly want completions as you type

Copilot Pro: unlimited inline and next edit suggestions for $10 a month, using no credits. Copilot Free has 2,000 a month. Cursor does not state a Tab limit for Free or the $8 Plus plan, so that is not verified.

You would pay for Grok or X Premium anyway

Cursor Premium. xAI says it bundles SuperGrok, Cursor Pro and X Premium+ for $30 a month. Note that Grok Chat, Imagine and Voice draw on the same weekly pool as your coding.

Test them on your own work

We have not run these tests for you unless a result above says so. Each kit gives you the same files, the same prompt and the same checks for both tools.

Questions

Why compare Cursor Premium with Copilot Pro, not Cursor Plus?

Cursor's pricing table shows cloud agents and Bugbot reviews as not included on Free and the $8 Plus plan; they start at Premium ($30). Copilot Pro ($10) is the first Copilot plan with the cloud agent and pull request review.

Do Claude, GPT and Gemini models cost extra?

On Cursor Premium, yes: they are billed at API list price through top-ups, with spending caps. On Copilot Pro, the included models, such as Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Gemini 3.8 Flash, are paid from the 1,500 monthly credits; extra use comes from a dollar budget.

Can Copilot's cloud agent work on GitLab?

No. GitHub documents the cloud agent for GitHub-hosted repos only, one repo, branch and pull request per task, with a 59-minute session limit. Cursor documents cloud agents on GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps.

Does either one train on my code?

GitHub may train on Copilot interaction data by default since April 24, 2026; you can opt out in settings. Cursor may train on code and prompts when Privacy Mode is off; its default is not documented, so check the setting.

What happens when I run out of usage?

Cursor's pool refreshes weekly, and you can buy top-ups. Copilot Pro's credits are monthly, and extra use is paid from a dollar budget you set. Completions on Copilot Pro use no credits.

Which one writes better code?

Neither vendor's documentation answers that, and we have not tested these plans yet. Run our code repair, code spec and code refactor kits in both, with the same files and the same checks.

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