Now, Cursor can be downloaded from their
which is cursor.com, but you will need
to pay in order to use it. Or, to be very
precise, you can get started for free but it's very,
very limited. You definitely want at least a pro version
when using it, or maybe even the Pro+ or Ultra
versions, which can be quite expensive, of course.
And also, to be very clear, chances are that by the
time you're viewing the pricing page, things have already changed
again, because the pricing has changed (laughs)
it probably will keep on changing.
And what's included with each tier is therefore likely also
going to change. But yes, it can get quite expensive, but only when
you are on those paid plans do you have access to their top tier
models and can use more requests with those top
tier models. Which means can use more prompts and send
more tasks to the AI. So you'll want to be in these top tier
pricing models to be able to fully use Cursor without very
restrictive limitations. For the purpose of this course, I'm in
this highest tier here, but of course, all the core features I
show you are available no matter which tier you're using.
And chances are, your company is paying for it anyways because,
there also are business plans which allow entire teams
or even entire enterprises with custom pricing and, of
course, enterprise-specific features.
There also is BackBot, a separate tool which
is also by the Cursor company, which we'll also take
a brief look at later. Now, what's very important to
know about Cursor is that when you use
it, they will not train based on your
data or your code. So you can use
Cursor without fearing that your code
or content will be used for further training or will end
up somewhere you don't want it to end up.
That is very important, obviously for companies,
individual developers, and therefore, that's something I wanted to point out
here. But with all that out of the way, let's download
Cursor and let's explore what's in that
IDE.