Versus comparison
Cursor vs Hol Registry
AI-assisted coding in an editor with agent modes, cloud agents, and Cursor's own Grok/Composer models · discovering and comparing installable Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and MCP plugins with publisher and trust signals
| Decision point | Cursor | HOL Registry |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | AI-assisted coding in an editor with agent modes, cloud agents, and Cursor's own Grok/Composer models | discovering and comparing installable Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and MCP plugins with publisher and trust signals |
| Category | Development | Development |
| Price | Free $0; Plus $8/mo; Premium $30/mo; Super $100/mo; Ultra $200/mo; Teams $30+/user/mo | Free |
| AIToolsEssentials editorial score | 4.6/5 | 4.0/5 |
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
Cursor is listed under The X Subscription tiers (cursor.com/pricing, checked 2026-11-03): Free $0, Plus $8/mo, Premium $30/mo, Super $100/mo, Ultra $200/mo. Teams is listed at $30+/user/month. The standalone Pro and Pro Plus tiers do not appear on the page. xAI documentation (docs.x.ai/x-subscription/pricing, checked 2026-10-13) states existing Cursor, SuperGrok and X Premium plans continue and switching is optional.
Official sources checked 2026-11-03Open 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. Re-checked 2026-10-13: the standalone Pro, Pro Plus and Teams tiers that the 2026-08-25 check reported are no longer rendered on cursor.com/pricing. The page now shows the unified The X Subscription ladder (Free $0, Plus $8/mo, Premium $30/mo, Super $100/mo, Ultra $200/mo), reported on 2026-10-12 as a bundle of Cursor, Grok and X Premium. xAI's own subscription documentation states that existing Cursor, SuperGrok and X Premium plans continue and that switching is optional, so legacy subscribers are not repriced. Previous digest retained here for reference only: Free with limited agent requests and Composer access; Pro $20/mo; Pro Plus $60/mo; Ultra $200/mo; Teams $40/user/mo; Enterprise custom (checked 2026-08-25).
Free. Browsing the plugin catalogue and submitting a public plugin repository cost nothing - stated in the catalogue's own FAQ ("list your public repository for free") and in the live https://hol.org/plugins/llms.txt, which sells nothing. No paid tier exists for the catalogue itself; paid credits apply to other HOL registry operations, and HOL Guard is a separately priced product with its own plans. Verified 2026-10-14 from the live /plugins/llms.txt plus the archived catalogue page, because live catalogue HTML is served behind a Cloudflare challenge and returned 403 to every scripted client.
Official sources checked 2026-10-14Open verification questions
- No general site-wide Terms of Service was located. The footer link labelled "Terms of Service" resolves to https://hol.org/points/legal/terms (a points-programme legal page) in both the live app shell and the archived pages, and that page's actual scope could not be read because live HTML is Cloudflare-challenged. Treat the recorded rights_url as the only terms link found, not as confirmed coverage of the catalogue.
- Catalogue size disagrees between HOL's own surfaces: the archived catalogue page (2026-08-31) read "Showing 243 plugins across 16 ecosystems" while the live /plugins/llms.txt says "205 catalog plugins". The listing therefore quotes no figure.
- Retention periods and named subprocessors are asserted in the privacy summary ("the complete policy names categories of providers and explains ... retention") but the full Privacy Policy, stated as last updated 2026-06-29, could not be read from this host. Retention and processor specifics are unverified.
- Security scoring is a fallback static catalogue scan, not a live exploit test - disclosed by the site itself in its FAQ and llms.txt. Any trust score should be read as a weak signal, and the listing's pros/cons say so.
- The privacy summary warns that information written to a public blockchain can be visible to third parties and may be permanent even after an off-chain account is deleted. This applies to HOL Points and registry features rather than the plugin catalogue, but is not itemised per product.
Submitted via the site form by the vendor (name "HOL Plugins", url https://hol.org/plugins, category Development, contact michael@hol.org) - FormSubmit mail timestamped Thu, 2026-10-15 00:22 UTC, i.e. 2026-10-14 in the site's Pacific working date. Editorial entry written independently; no vendor copy reused and no revenue figure inferred. Operator identity verified twice: (1) the site's own About and Contact pages state that "Hashgraph Online DAO LLC operates hol.org", give the business address 852 Long Island Rd, Majuro 96960, Marshall Islands, and publish +1 347-705-7394 and support@hol.org; (2) independently, the GitHub organisation "hashgraph-online" (display name "HOL (Hashgraph Online)", 66 public repositories, created 2024-02-18) lists hol.org as its blog, Marshall Islands as its location and support@hol.org as its email, and its hol-guard repository lists https://hol.org/guard as its homepage (Apache-2.0, 896 stars, last pushed 2026-10-15). Submitted contact michael@hol.org is a real mailbox: SMTP RCPT probe against the domain's own Google Workspace MX returned 250 2.1.5 OK, while a random local part returned 550 5.1.1, proving the domain is not a catch-all. Provenance limits, stated plainly: hol.org serves its HTML, its sitemap.xml, its OpenAPI document and its live API endpoints behind a Cloudflare challenge (403 to every scripted client; only the llms.txt surfaces load), and the interactive browser was unavailable on this host, so the catalogue, About, Contact and Privacy pages were read from Wayback snapshots (catalogue 2026-08-31; About 2026-09-19; Contact 2026-09-19; Privacy 2026-09-24) and cross-checked against the live surfaces that do load: /plugins/llms.txt, /guard/llms.txt, robots.txt and the live 404 app shell, which carries the site's full navigation. Ownership is not in question on any reading.
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.
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