Small business▲+2Since September 2026: 9% → 11%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
11%from 9% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 3 of 37, unchanged
4 categories · RankedCursor
176Judge labels
9First choices
54Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
4Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
13% in AI coding for small business buyers
Rank 3 of 48 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 19% of its 57 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Cursor →By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
Small business3 of 39
13%63 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market3 of 48
4%57 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise52 of 52
0%50 labels
criticized challenger
In ai coding · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Cursor for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI coding assistants | Developer platform | 4% | 3 of 48 | 19% | 57 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 4% → 5%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Enterprise AI assistants | Data platform | 0% | 143 of 145 | 100% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by ChatGPT at 25% | |
| AI IT support agents | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 89 of 121 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Freshservice with Freddy AI at 11% | |
| AI security platforms | Security operations | 0% | 217 of 233 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by SentinelOne Singularity at 11% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Cursor held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · AI coding · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 4% → 5%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
5%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 3 of 43, unchanged
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 31 → 49 of 49
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI coding | 4% | 5% | =heldSince September 2026: 4% → 5%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 3 of 48, unchanged |
| Enterprise AI | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 143 of 145, unchanged |
| AI IT agents | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 89 of 121, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Cursor across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Cursor across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct34 labels4
Paraphrase27 labels1
Comparative36 labels10not counted in share
Budget-constrained31 labelsNone
Scale-constrained17 labels4
Negative31 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative176 labels in all, every segment counted; 9 of the 20 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Cursor at $20-40/month offers the most sophisticated agent workflows with Composer mode, multi-file awareness, and autonomous coding capabilities.” Muse Glimmer 30B · AI coding · 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 · AI coding · 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 · AI coding · scale prompt · first choice
“Choose Cursor if you want the absolute best all-in-one editor... Cursor is the gold standard.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · AI coding · comparative prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Every major coding agent shipped with exploitable prompt injection vulnerabilities.” Muse Glimmer 30B · AI security · negative prompt · hard negative
“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 · AI coding · 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 · AI coding · 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 · AI coding · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cursor, over the 176 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cursor was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cursor, over the 176 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cursor was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Cursor. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 167 of the 176 answers that named Cursor and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
augmentcode.com58
dev.to51
kilo.ai48
tech-insider.org48
resources.rework.com45
docs.github.com38
github.com35
tembo.io32
daily.dev30
sourcegraph.com29
414 of the 414 domain citations in answers naming Cursor came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
cursor.com ranks 6 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Cursor takes 4% of first choices and GitHub Copilot takes 75%.ShowHide
Search and answers
cursor.com ranks 6 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Cursor takes 4% of first choices and GitHub Copilot takes 75%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “ai coding assistant”
6
Position for “ai coding assistants”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 301,000 a month (“cursor”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 22,500 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 350,718 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 16,151 · 1,879 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 33,680
- Paid Google search
- 2 searches its ads show for, about 4 clicks and $28 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
4%
rank 3 of 48 in AI coding
Segment leader
75%
GitHub Copilot
- First choices
- 9 across its categories
- Named in
- 176 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 167 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on cursor.com
45,989
subdomains included
Content
42,310
counted in the table below
Documentation
312
Product · Integration
0 · 3,261
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference or event | 42,079 | 84 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Blog | 126 | 25 | 2026-09-23 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 65 | 24 | 2026-09-20 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 14 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 13 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 6 | 4 | 2026-08-12 | ||
| Template or tool | 4 | undated | |||
| Case study | 3 | 1 | 2026-09-14 |
Most recent
Events in person
Last twelve months
- September 11, 2026Ship It with Cursor: A Hands-On Build Workshop #InnovateSplit2026place not stated · hosted
As the event pages on cursor.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cursor.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Cursor
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Cursor; a claim can dispute any of them.
Cursor Teams 7Cursor AI 2Cursor Business 2Cursor (Business) 1Cursor / GitHub Copilot 1Cursor Enterprise 1
Follow Cursor
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Cursor is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Cursor is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- AI Coding Agent for Building Ambitious Software
- For
- teams that build world-class software
- Price stated
- Free; $20 / mo.; $40 / user / mo.; Custom cursor.com/pricing
- Starting price
- 0 cursor.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Hobby cursor.com/pricing
- Certifications
- SOC 2ISO27001ISO42001AIUC-1 CertifiedSOC 2 Certified
- Customers named
- Y CombinatorNVIDIAEureka LabsStripeshadcn/uiOpenAIBrexSentry
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, hosting
What Cursor's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: cursor.com, cursor.com/pricing, trust.cursor.com, cursor.com/customers, cursor.com/marketplace. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Cursor's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Cursor, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Cursor by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Cursor is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Cursor, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Cursor is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Cursor is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideCursor is among the products AI models recommend first in AI coding assistants this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.