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Cursor vs Perplexity
Compare Cursor vs Perplexity: pricing, context window, benchmarks (coding, math, reasoning), capabilities. Updated April 2026.
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Free tier
Limited completions, GPT-4o-mini default
5 Pro searches/day
Standard plan
Pro — $20/mo
Pro — $20/mo
Top plan
Business — $40/mo
Enterprise — $200/mo
API input / 1M tokens
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$3.00 Best
API output / 1M tokens
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$15.00 Best
Capability
Context window
200K
200K Best
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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65% Best
Human pref. (LMArena Elo)
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1280 Best
Features
Image input
Partial
✓
Voice mode
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Web search
✓
✓
File upload
✓
✓
Image generation
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Code execution
✓
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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.
Perplexity
Search-grounded, not a general assistant. Best when you need cited, real-time answers.
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