Cursor has cut the price of AI coding in India to about $7 a month. The interesting part is how it can afford to.
The startup launched Cursor Start on Monday, a ₹649 plan sold only in India, TechCrunch reported. It sits well below the $20 Pro subscription. It is also the first time Cursor has localised its pricing anywhere.
India earned the discount. It is already Cursor’s third-largest market and has the highest concentration of power users on the platform. Its user base tripled to more than three million developers in a year, according to Inc42. GitHub counts more than 27 million developers in the country, second only to the US.
Why $7 is not a loss
The plan runs on Cursor’s own models, Composer and Grok 4.5. It leaves out the frontier systems from OpenAI and Anthropic that power the top tier. That choice is the whole trick.
