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Cursor vs DeepSeek
Compare Cursor vs DeepSeek: pricing, context window, benchmarks (coding, math, reasoning), capabilities. Updated April 2026.
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cursor.com ↗ DeepSeek
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Free tier
Limited completions, GPT-4o-mini default
Fully free in the consumer app
Standard plan
Pro — $20/mo
API only — API only
Top plan
Business — $40/mo
API only — API only
API input / 1M tokens
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$0.27 Best
API output / 1M tokens
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$1.10 Best
Capability
Context window
200K Best
128K
Max output tokens
8K
8K Best
Knowledge cutoff
Live (web)
2026-01
Benchmarks
Coding (LiveCodeBench)
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70% Best
Math (AIME 2025)
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72% Best
Reasoning (GPQA Diamond)
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73% Best
Human pref. (LMArena Elo)
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1356 Best
Features
Image input
Partial
Partial
Voice mode
—
—
Web search
✓
✓
File upload
✓
Partial
Image generation
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—
Code execution
✓
Partial
Agent / tool use
✓
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Persistent memory
✓
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Cursor
IDE-integrated coding tool, not a chat AI. Routes to Claude, GPT, Gemini under the hood. Best autocomplete + agent mode in the IDE-tools class.
DeepSeek
Open weights. ~20× cheaper API than GPT-5.2. Chinese hosting raises data-residency considerations for some.
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