Versus comparison
Bolt New vs Cursor
Prompt-to-app prototyping in the browser · AI-assisted coding in an editor with agent modes, cloud agents, and Cursor's own Grok/Composer models
| Decision point | Bolt.new | Cursor |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Prompt-to-app prototyping in the browser | AI-assisted coding in an editor with agent modes, cloud agents, and Cursor's own Grok/Composer models |
| Category | Development | Development |
| Price | Free + paid plans | Free $0; Plus $8/mo; Premium $30/mo; Super $100/mo; Ultra $200/mo; Teams $30+/user/mo |
| AIToolsEssentials editorial score | 4.2/5 | 4.6/5 |
Scores are editorial product assessments — job fit, likely output quality, ease of adoption, and operational cost — not lab benchmarks, and no tool here has a published hands-on result. How we score.
Evidence status
Free: $0, public and private projects, 300,000-token daily limit, 1 million tokens/month, 10 MB uploads, Bolt-branded hosting, up to 333,000 web requests, and unlimited databases. Pro: $25/month, no daily token limit, starts at 10 million tokens/month, 100 MB uploads, token rollover, custom domains, private sharing, and up to 1 million web requests. Teams: $30/member/month with Pro features plus centralized billing and administrative controls. Enterprise is custom-priced.
Official sources checked 2026-08-25Open verification questions
- Bolt's security page says code and prompts are never used to train foundation models, while the Privacy Policy permits aggregated, anonymized, or de-identified AI content to improve AI performance and describes plan-dependent training controls. The exact boundary between 'foundation-model training' and other model/service improvement is not defined.
- The public Privacy Policy does not enumerate which plans receive training opt-out controls.
- The commercial-use statement does not provide a non-infringement warranty for generated code.
Official documentation says Bolt offers Standard and Max agents; Standard is available on Free, while Max requires a paid plan. Bolt's commercial-use documentation states that all code created with Bolt and StackBlitz is the user's code and may be used for any legal purpose, including commercial purposes. StackBlitz's Terms state that it does not claim ownership of data, content, or other material submitted, published, or transmitted through the service. The Privacy Policy says Bolt may use AI Inputs and Outputs to operate, maintain, and improve the service, including AI performance, reliability, and safety, using aggregated, anonymized, or de-identified data. The Privacy Policy says training/improvement opt-out controls may depend on account type or plan, while third-party AI providers process Inputs to provide services to Bolt under contractual confidentiality and data-protection obligations.
Cursor pricing checked 2026-11-03 at cursor.com/pricing: Free $0, Plus $8/mo, Premium $30/mo, Super $100/mo, Ultra $200/mo, Teams $30+/user/mo. Pro and Pro Plus are not on the page. Cursor Models pool: Grok 4.6 $2/$6, Composer 2.5 $0.50/$2.50 per 1M tokens.
Official sources checked 2026-08-25Open verification questions
- The pricing UI exposes a Teams Premium option with 5x Standard Agent limits, but its price was not reliably exposed in the official page's static content, so no price is reported.
- The public Terms assign Anysphere's rights in Suggestions but do not provide a blanket warranty that generated code is non-infringing or expressly guarantee commercial suitability.
The official Terms state that Anysphere will not use Content to train, or allow a third party to train, AI models unless the user explicitly agrees. The Privacy Policy identifies limited exceptions for security review, explicitly submitted feedback, or explicit training consent. Privacy Mode is available on free and paid individual plans; Cursor says that when enabled it will not train on the user's data and applies contractual and technical controls to model providers. Users retain their rights in Inputs, and Anysphere assigns to users any right, title, and interest it has in Suggestions. Official documentation describes Cursor as a coding agent for understanding codebases, planning and building features, fixing bugs, reviewing changes, and using integrations, MCP, rules, skills, hooks, cloud agents, and CLI workflows.
External benchmark context
- Terminal-Bench 2.1 · Cursor CLI + Grok 4.5 · high effort — 79.3% ± 1.5% over 445 trials (run 2026-07-09).
Benchmark records apply only to the exact model/configuration shown—not the whole product. Independent same-task hands-on comparison: not yet published. See the testing protocol.
How to decide
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Quick recommendation
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