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GAI coding assistant and agents for editors, terminal, desktop and GitHub
Free, from $10/mo
Cursor vs Tabby
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
C
Choose Cursor if…
- you want the lower entry price ($8/mo vs $19/mo)
- you work on macOS, Slack
- you're in its core audience: software developers, engineering teams
T
Choose Tabby if…
- you want open source you can self-host or audit
- you work on Self-hosted, VS Code, JetBrains
- you're in its core audience: software developers, small development teams
Side by side
Feature Cursor Tabby
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starting price$8/mo$19/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Trains AI on your contentYes, unless you opt out—
Data retentionKept only as long as necessary for operations and legitimate business needs—
Security and complianceSOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 42001—
Updates, last 90 days5—
Agent mode
Tab completion—
CLI / terminal—
Cloud agents—
AI PR review—
Local / self-hosted models—
MCP support—
PlatformsmacOS, Web, SlackSelf-hosted, VS Code, JetBrains, Web
CategoryCode AssistantsCode Assistants
CompanyAnysphere, Inc.TabbyML, Inc.
Based in——
Founded——
Part ofSpaceX—
Key features
C Cursor
- Agent mode that plans and builds features from prompts
- Cloud agents running tasks in parallel on own machines
- Command-line agent installable via curl
- Slack integration that opens pull requests
- AI code reviews on GitHub PRs via Bugbot
- Model choice across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, SpaceXAI, Cursor
- Cmd+K targeted inline edits
- Privacy mode excluding code from training
T Tabby
- Context-aware code completion in the IDE
- Answer Engine for coding questions with cited sources
- Inline chat inside the code editor
- Context providers connecting docs and data sources
- Self-hosting on consumer-grade GPUs
- No external database or cloud service required
- Pochi agent for planning and executing tasks
- SSO, usage analytics and telemetry policies on Enterprise
Plans and prices
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Cursor
Free$0/month
Plus$8/month
Premium$30/month
Super$100/month
Ultra$200/month
Teams$30+/user/month
EnterpriseCustom
Tabby
CommunityFree
Team$19/mo per seat
EnterpriseCustom
Tabby Cloud (Pochi)Usage-based
Strengths and limitations
Cursor
- Free plan available
- Works in desktop, terminal, Slack and GitHub
- Supports models from several providers
- SOC 2, ISO27001 and ISO42001 certified
- Plus plan is limited to Grok models
- Third-party model usage is billed separately at API list price
- Cloud agents and code reviews require Premium ($30/month) or higher
- Prices exclude taxes
Tabby
- Open source and self-hostable
- Free Community plan for up to 5 users
- Supports VS Code, Neovim, Eclipse and many JetBrains IDEs
- Tab Completion on Tabby Cloud is free with no usage limits
- Free plan is limited to 5 users
- SSO and telemetry policy controls require the Enterprise plan
- Enterprise pricing is only available by contacting sales
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