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GitHub Copilot vs Cursor in 2026: Pricing, Features, and Which to Choose
GitHub Copilot and Cursor are both mainstream AI coding tools, but they solve different problems. Copilot is the ubiquitous assistant that plugs into almost every IDE and lives deep inside the GitHub ecosystem. Cursor is an AI-native editor (a VS Code fork) built around agentic, multi-file editing. Choosing between them is less about "which is smarter" and more about where you want to do your work and how you want to pay for it.
Both products rewrote their billing in mid-2026 — Copilot switched to metered AI Credits on June 1, and Cursor reshaped its Teams tiers — so the cost math is different from what you may remember. Every concrete figure below links to the official pricing or changelog page it came from, read on 2026-06-28. Every figure here is a 2026-06-28 snapshot, and each links to the vendor pricing or changelog page it came from, so the current number is one click away if a plan has shifted since.
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