Amazon Q Developer vs Cursor

There is a free tier with no cost, and a Pro tier priced at $19 per user per month that adds expanded agentic request limits, admin controls, and IP indemnity.

The free Hobby plan provides 2,000 completions per month and 50 slow premium requests, with access to basic autocomplete features. Codebase-wide indexing and the Composer multi-file editor are not available on the free plan.

The free tier includes 50 agentic requests per month, access to the latest Claude models in IDE and CLI, and 1,000 lines of code per month for Java transformation.

While Cursor can open and edit files locally, its AI features including autocomplete, chat, agents, and codebase-aware reasoning require internet access to cloud-hosted models.

Java and .NET transformation usage beyond the plan's included lines of code is billed as overage at $0.003 per line of code submitted.

Cursor can integrate with local models, but requests still route through Cursor's backend for prompt building. True localhost mode without external endpoints is not supported. The paid plan ($20+/month) is required to use local models.

Subscriptions are billed monthly per user and prorated in the first month, but canceling before the end of a billing month still incurs the full month's subscription fee.

Cursor offers Privacy Mode (enabled on paid Team plans) which prevents customer data from being used for model training, with zero data retention agreements with all AI providers. When disabled, Cursor may use codebase data to improve features.

Agentic requests include both question-and-answer chat interactions and autonomous coding tasks performed by Q Developer's agents, all drawn from the same monthly quota.

Pro ($20/month) includes unlimited completions and 500 fast premium requests, while Pro+ ($60/month) provides 3x those request limits, priority feature access, and extended Agent capabilities.

SSO with SAML/OIDC is included on Teams Standard ($40/user/month) and higher plans, with full team administration and audit logs.