Cursor vs devlo

Cursor

Still the editor most teams reach for when they want agents working inside a real IDE, with cloud agents, PR review and a CLI under one login. Since the SpaceX purchase the price list has been rebuilt around a usage pool shared with Grok: the old $20 Pro plan is gone, the cheapest tier only runs Grok models, and anyone attached to Claude, GPT or Gemini now pays for those separately at API list price.

Pros

• +Agents work with repository-wide context in the editor, the terminal and the cloud
• +Model menu still spans in-house Composer plus Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and xAI models
• +Usage allowance refreshes weekly rather than monthly, so one heavy day does not drain the month
• +Free tier remains for trying agent workflows
• +SOC 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 certifications listed for enterprise procurement

Cons

• −The $8 Plus tier is restricted to Grok models, so the realistic entry price for a multi-model workflow is $30
• −Third-party models are no longer included in any plan and bill at API list price on top
• −Pricing has been restructured twice within a year, which makes budgeting a guess
• −Ownership moved to SpaceX in 2026, so roadmap and data policies may shift again

devlo

devlo's angle is that the agent lives in GitHub rather than in an editor you have to adopt, so it can raise pull requests, review them and pick up tickets in the place the work already happens. At $19 to start it undercuts most seat-priced assistants. The weak point is transparency: the site is a JavaScript shell whose footer names devlo Inc. but gives no country, address or team, and the credit-to-task conversion is unpublished.

Pros

• +Runs as an installed GitHub app rather than as a separate editor you have to switch to
• +The same agent handles greenfield app builds and edits to an existing codebase
• +Pull-request review agent and custom agents appear at the $39 tier, not enterprise-only
• +Entry price of $19 a month sits below most seat-based coding assistants

Cons

• −The marketing site is a JavaScript shell - crawlers and non-JS readers see only a page title
• −The footer names devlo Inc., but no address, country or team page appears on the site
• −Credits are the billing unit and no credit-to-task conversion is published
• −VPC deployment and custom integrations require a sales conversation

Is Cursor cheaper than devlo?

On published entry prices, Cursor starts lower — $8/mo against $19/mo for devlo. Entry price is the lowest paid plan as we last verified it; what each plan includes differs.

Does Cursor or devlo have a free tier?

Both: Cursor has a free tier, and devlo has a free tier.