Cursor vs Amazon Q Developer
One of fourteen models named Cursor first on the direct prompt; zero named Amazon Q Developer. Cursor was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Amazon Q Developer by thirteen and Cursor carries 57 labels and Amazon Q Developer 38, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in four categories this edition.
Named in two categories this edition.
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the AI coding assistants page.
By framing
CursorFirst choices, of fourteen modelsAmazon Q Developer
Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Cursor and Amazon Q Developer were named in the same answer seventy-nine times, of the 176 answers naming Cursor and the 112 naming Amazon Q Developer. In those answers Amazon Q Developer took the first choice three times and Cursor nine.
Every model, every framing
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | | | | |||
| GPT-5.4 mini | | | | | ||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | | | | | | |
| Perplexity Sonar | | | | | ||
| Grok 4.1 Fast | | | | | | |
| Mistral Small | | | | | ||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | | | | | ||
| Llama 4 Maverick | | | ||||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | | | | | ||
| Kimi K2 | | | | | | |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | | | | |||
| MiniMax M2.5 | | | | | ||
| GPT-6 Luna | | | | | | |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | | | | | |
Cursor Amazon Q Developer first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Cursor on the left and Amazon Q Developer on the right.The direct prompt
Cursor first, Amazon Q Developer not the choice
1 of 14 modelsAmazon Q Developer was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Neither was the first choice, one was named
10 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
3 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
By buyer segment
Cursor13%#3 of 7Amazon Q Developer0%#6 of 7Cursor4%#3 of 9Amazon Q Developer4%#4 of 9Amazon Q Developer7%#3 of 9Cursor0%#9 of 9What the models said about Cursor
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of seven in this category shown.
“Cursor says it sends prompts and code context to model providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google... If you're on an individual plan, the DPA does not apply.” GPT-5.4 mini · negative prompt · soft negative
“Cursor, Replit, Windsurf, OpenAI Codex. Named in the 43.1% unauthorized file operations taxonomy and in the IDEsaster 100% vulnerable set.” Muse Glimmer 30B · negative prompt · soft negative
“Cursor has bugs and inconsistent outputs, where the AI claims to have completed a task but hasn't actually done what it said” Claude Haiku 4.5 · negative prompt · soft negative
“Cursor at $20-40/month offers the most sophisticated agent workflows with Composer mode, multi-file awareness, and autonomous coding capabilities.” Muse Glimmer 30B · comparative prompt · first choice
“It earns the top overall ranking based on its whole-codebase context awareness, multi-file editing capabilities, and strong accuracy scores” Claude Haiku 4.5 · comparative prompt · first choice
“Select two of the above tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot and Cursor) and run a head-to-head pilot” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
What the models said about Amazon Q Developer
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of seven in this category shown.
“Lower Priority/Avoid if Possible: Amazon Q Developer ... End-of-support looming ... migrate from Amazon soon” Grok 4.1 Fast · negative prompt · hard negative
“extracted 2,702 valid credentials from GitHub Copilot and 129 from Amazon CodeWhisperer using clever prompts” Muse Glimmer 30B · negative prompt · soft negative
“Ranked second lowest at 72.38 in the privacy scorecard. Also flagged in credential extraction research.” Muse Glimmer 30B · negative prompt · soft negative
“"For budget-conscious teams, Continue.dev and Amazon Q Developer offer excellent value."” Muse Glimmer 30B · budget prompt · first choice
“I'd start with Amazon CodeWhisperer or Tabnine since they're free” MiniMax M2.5 · budget prompt · first choice
“| Amazon Q Developer (ex-CodeWhisperer) | Yes (generous for individuals/AWS) | $19/mo Pro | AWS-heavy teams” Grok 4.1 Fast · budget prompt · alternative
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.