Cursor

Anysphere

Commercial

Standalone AI coding IDE with rapid enterprise growth and credit-based pricing controversy.

Curated by Tiberiu ArvaStale 2026-05-26

Proprietary

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Strengths

Strong adoption
Standalone IDE UX
High-end coding focus

Practitioner note

Strong for fast-moving product teams that optimize for developer speed, though central governance and cost predictability need more scrutiny than incumbent platform copilots.

Warning

Cursor: Switched to credit-based pricing in June 2025, causing backlash.

Governance posture

Reviewed 2026-05-26

NoData residency

No data-residency options documented; no EU residency option found.

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YesDeployment model

Standalone SaaS IDE; Privacy Mode (zero retention); MDM supported; no self-hosted LLM in standard tiers. (saas)

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YesAudit logging

Enterprise audit logs (admin/security/auth) with SIEM streaming (Splunk/Datadog/S3).

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YesSOC 2

SOC 2 Type II available on request via trust.cursor.com.

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UnknownISO 27001

Listed by some secondary sources; no primary Anysphere certificate confirmed.

UnknownISO 42001

No ISO 42001 certification found for Cursor/Anysphere.

UnknownEU AI Act

Assessed limited-risk by product category; no published vendor EU AI Act conformity assessment. (role: limited-risk)

YesLicense risk

Proprietary SaaS; 2025 credit-pricing change controversy; smaller vendor, no self-hosted escape. (high)

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EU AI Act obligations

Risk tier: Limited risk · as of 2026-08-23

Source-backed information mapped from Cursor's tracked risk tier — not legal advice. Obligations depend on how your organisation deploys the system; see the full obligation reference and timeline.

Article 4AI literacy

Providers and deployers must take measures to ensure a sufficient level of AI literacy in staff and other persons operating AI systems on their behalf.

Applies from 2025-02-02

Official text

Article 50Transparency for certain AI systems

People must be informed when they interact with an AI system; synthetic audio, image, video, and text content must be marked as artificially generated, and deepfakes disclosed.

Applies from 2026-08-02

Official text

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