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Cursor vs GitHub Copilot
Compare Cursor vs GitHub Copilot: pricing, context window, benchmarks (coding, math, reasoning), capabilities. Updated April 2026.
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Free tier
Limited completions, GPT-4o-mini default
Free for verified students, OSS maintainers; 2K completions/mo for everyone else
Standard plan
Pro — $20/mo
Pro — $10/mo
Top plan
Business — $40/mo
Enterprise — $39/mo
API input / 1M tokens
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API output / 1M tokens
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Capability
Context window
200K Best
128K
Max output tokens
8K Best
4K
Knowledge cutoff
Live (web)
Live (web)
Benchmarks
Coding (LiveCodeBench)
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Math (AIME 2025)
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Reasoning (GPQA Diamond)
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Human pref. (LMArena Elo)
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Features
Image input
Partial
Partial
Voice mode
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Partial
Web search
✓
✓
File upload
✓
Partial
Image generation
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Code execution
✓
Partial
Agent / tool use
✓
✓
Persistent memory
✓
Partial
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.
GitHub Copilot
Most-installed coding tool. IDE-integrated across VS Code / JetBrains / Visual Studio. Cheapest at $10/mo. Configurable backend (GPT, Claude, Gemini).
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