**Cursor vs GitHub Copilot for C#/.NET in 2026: which to pay for
If you write C#/.NET for a living, the AI tool question in 2026 is rarely Cursor or nothing. It's whether Cursor earns its seat next to the GitHub Copilot licence your org probably already pays for. This is the honest comparison: what each one actually costs, where each one wins on real .NET work, and where each one quietly falls down.
The decision you're actually making
Most teams don't pick between these two from a blank slate. Copilot is usually already there, bundled into the org's GitHub plan. So the real question is narrower and more useful: does Cursor do enough that Copilot can't, on a production .NET codebase, to justify a second subscription? The answer turns on agentic edits, not autocomplete.
The pricing, in 2026 GBP
