Superconductor vs Cursor: which one is right for your team?
Superconductor is a multiplayer AI platform for teams of technical and non-technical users. Cursor is an AI code editor with cloud agents for software engineers. Both run coding agents in the cloud and return pull requests with screenshots and video. They differ in which agent harnesses and subscription plans they support, and in who on the team can review the running app.
Support for different types of teams
Each task is marked Can, Partly, or Cannot for each product.
| Task | Superconductor | Cursor |
|---|---|---|
| Plan a feature from a specification or a planning call | Can. Create a ticket from the app, Slack, Linear, or the Superconductor meeting assistant during a call. You can ask questions about a codebase in a chat first. | Partly. Plan mode researches the codebase and drafts a plan you can edit before any code is written. Cursor has no meeting assistant to capture requirements from a planning call. |
| Implement a feature or bugfix | Can. The agent builds the change on a cloud computer. Anyone with edit access opens the pull request from the session in one click. | Can. Each cloud agent gets its own Ubuntu virtual machine and opens a pull request when it finishes. |
| Gather feedback on the implementation | Can. Anyone on the team can open a live preview link from the web app, Slack, or the iPhone app. The session also shows the agent's screenshots. | Partly. Teammates comment on the pull request or in the Slack thread that started the agent. Seeing the running app takes forwarded ports, the agent's remote desktop, or a staging deployment. |
| QA the implementation | Can. The QA Checks agent reviews the change against requirements, runs linting and tests, and uses the browser to exercise the feature and take screenshots. | Partly. Cloud agents click through their own work in a browser. No built-in check compares the change with the original request. |
| Review the code before it merges | Can. Guided Review explains each group of changed files in review order. Reviewers read the diff next to the running app in the session. | Can. Bugbot reviews each pull request for bugs and security issues, and Agent Review checks local changes before they leave the editor. |
| Deploy and monitor | Partly. Your existing pipeline handles deployment, and agents read production errors through connectors such as Sentry. | Partly. Releases go out through your own pipeline. Automations can start an agent when a production alert fires. |
| Use your existing coding agent subscription plan | Can. Connect your existing Claude, ChatGPT, SuperGrok, or Muse Code plan, and the matching harness draws its tokens from that plan. | Partly. Cursor agents run on a Cursor seat plan. On Premium and above, third-party models can bill to your own API keys instead of prepaid usage credit. |
| Benchmark agents on your own codebase | Can. The built-in benchmark on Superconductor Pro scores Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and other harnesses against pull requests your team picks as best practices. | Cannot. As of November 2026, Cursor has no benchmark that runs agents against pull requests your team has merged. |
| Task | Superconductor | Cursor |
|---|---|---|
| Turn customer email into tracked work | Can. Forward customer email to Superconductor. An agent maps each message to a new or existing ticket and drafts a reply for you to send. | Partly. Grok Bot, a separate agent on Premium and above, can receive email at an opt-in address. Email does not reach Cursor's coding agents directly. |
| Capture action items from a customer call | Can. The meeting assistant joins an online meeting and turns each action item into a new ticket or a link to an existing one. | Cannot. Cursor has no meeting assistant and does not join calls. |
| Answer a question or produce a report without touching the codebase | Can. An agent answers questions and writes documents from connectors such as Notion, Jira, Sentry, and Gmail. | Partly. Grok Bot handles research and reports across other apps. Cursor's coding agents are built around a repository. |
| Task | Superconductor | Cursor |
|---|---|---|
| Fix a bug even when no engineer is available | Can. File the bug, and an agent starts on the fix. Anyone on the team can check the live preview before the pull request opens. | Partly. Teammates with a Cursor seat on Premium or above can tag @Cursor in Slack, Microsoft Teams, or GitHub to start a fix. Checking it in the running app takes forwarded ports, the agent's remote desktop, or a staging deployment. |
| Work from Slack or Microsoft Teams | Partly. Mention @Superconductor in a Slack channel, and results come back in that thread. As of November 2026, there are no DMs or Microsoft Teams chat. | Can. Teammates can tag @Cursor in Slack and Microsoft Teams channels and in Slack DMs. The agent answers in the thread it was started from. |
| Work on the go | Can. In the iPhone and iPad app you file tickets, review diffs and live previews, and open pull requests. Android uses the web app, and desktop apps cover macOS and Linux. | Can. The Cursor iPhone and iPad app starts and follows cloud agents. Android runs cursor.com/agents as a web app. |
| Keep your bill predictable | Partly. You pick a monthly tier of plan credits. Model tokens are billed separately to your own subscriptions or keys. | Partly. Usage past each seat's weekly allowance draws on prepaid usage credit. A monthly limit you set caps it. |
| Decide which agent harness to trust | Can. Run two harnesses on the same ticket and compare the results side by side. | Cannot. The /best-of-n command runs one task on several models, but not on other agent harnesses. |
| Avoid depending on a single model provider | Can. Agents use Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, Meta, and open models. If a provider goes down or raises prices, you choose another model next time. | Can. As of November 2026, you choose Composer, Grok, Claude, GPT, Gemini, or an open model. |
| Replace ChatGPT or Claude as your team's AI assistant | Can. Anyone with access can open a chat with any model and the project's repos, connectors, and skills. Nobody needs a separate chatbot app. | Partly. As of November 2026, Cursor plans include Grok Chat for general questions. It runs as its own app, outside Cursor's coding agents. |
| Task | Superconductor | Cursor |
|---|---|---|
| Keep agents inside the network perimeter | Can. On every plan a project can block external access, allow a list of domains, or allow everything. Your own cloud requires Enterprise. | Can. Admins can limit cloud agents to an allowlist of domains for each team or environment. |
| Pass a security review | Partly. Access is role-based, repositories are scoped per project, and sensitive data is encrypted at rest, as described in the Superconductor security overview. As of November 2026, SOC 2 Type II is in progress. | Can. As of November 2026, certifications include SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001. Enterprise adds SCIM and audit logs. |
| Use your existing version control and project management systems | Partly. GitHub is the only supported code host. Agents work with Linear through a built-in integration and with Jira through a connector. | Can. Cloud agents work with GitHub and GitLab, and, as of November 2026, with Bitbucket Cloud and Azure DevOps in public beta. Agents take work from Linear, Jira, and Notion. |
| Deploy and manage company-wide rollouts | Can. Projects have their own credentials, network rules, and connectors inside a workspace. Members are unlimited on the Enterprise plan. | Can. Admins set up single sign-on and share rules and plugins across teams through a marketplace. |
| Control spend | Partly. Plan credits for compute come from one pool shared across the workspace, and tokens bill to members' plans or shared keys. There are no per-person spend limits. | Can. Team admins set a monthly limit, a default limit per member, and overrides for individuals. |
How their capabilities differ
Each capability below is marked Built in, Partial, or Not offered for each product.
| Capability | Superconductor | Cursor |
|---|---|---|
| Choose the agent harness per task | Built in. You pick the agent harness for each ticket, from Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Pi, and others. | Not offered. Only Cursor's own agent harness is available. |
| Edit the code yourself mid-task | Built in. You get a terminal into the agent's environment, which shares its filesystem, or pull the branch into any editor. | Built in. The Cursor editor opens the agent's branch. You can also take over the cloud agent's remote desktop. |
| Let teammates take part in an agent's session | Built in. Teammates with edit access can question or redirect the agent while it works. | Partial. Teammates with repository access can watch a run. They can steer it only if an admin turns on follow-ups, which reuse the initial creator's secrets. |
| Start agents automatically from alerts and events | Partial. Automations run on a schedule or when a pull request is merged. As of November 2026, alerts from tools such as Sentry or PagerDuty do not start them. | Built in. Automations start agents from a schedule, pull request and push events, Slack, Linear, Sentry, PagerDuty, or a webhook. |
What happens when you assign a task to Cursor
Cursor started as an AI code editor. Its Agents Window, which Cursor calls its "agent-first interface", lets one developer run several agents at once on a laptop or in the cloud. A cloud agent gets an Ubuntu virtual machine with your repository, dependencies, and secrets. You can start one from the editor, the web, the iPhone app, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Linear, Jira, GitHub, or the API.
The agent builds and runs the change. When it finishes, Cursor opens a pull request with screenshots, videos, and logs attached.
What happens when you file a ticket in Superconductor
Superconductor is a multiplayer AI platform where work starts from a ticket. You write a prompt and choose one or more agent harnesses and a model. Superconductor runs Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Factory Droid, Grok Build, Muse Code, Amp, OpenCode, and Pi. Each agent works on a dedicated cloud computer that runs your whole app.
Each Superconductor ticket has an attached session. The session shows, side by side, the agent's chat, diff, live app preview, any recorded screenshots or videos, and a terminal into the environment. Anyone on the team can open the session from the app or Slack. There is no bundled editor, so each engineer pulls the branch into the editor they already use. When the work is ready, the agent opens a pull request on GitHub.
Support for work beyond code
Work in Superconductor can start outside the app. The Superconductor meeting assistant files new tickets or links existing ones as people speak during a Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams call.
Cursor's coding agents start from a prompt or an issue. A request raised in a meeting or a customer email reaches them only after someone writes it up.
Where you'll end up reviewing the work
The developer who started a Cursor cloud agent reviews its diff in the Agents Window and previews the app through ports forwarded to their own machine. Teammates with repository access can watch the run and review its pull request, where Bugbot leaves comments.
In Superconductor the whole team reviews in one multiplayer session. Everyone sees the diff, the running app, and the Guided Review and QA Checks results there without pulling a branch.
Model choice and who pays for tokens
Cursor lets you pick a model for each request. Composer and Grok are Cursor's own models and draw on the plan's weekly allowance. On Premium and above you can also pick Claude, GPT, Gemini, or an open model, billed separately from the seat plan through prepaid usage credit or your own API keys.
In Superconductor you pick an agent harness and a model for each ticket. Tokens come from the AI subscriptions or API keys you already have.
Security, compliance, and integrations
A Cursor cloud agent's environment comes from an agent-led setup run or a Dockerfile referenced in .cursor/environment.json. Cursor saves the result as a snapshot for later runs. Agents reach other tools through MCP servers, and servers that use OAuth sign in each person separately. Self-hosted machines, with shared team pools on Enterprise, run an agent's tools on your own network while Cursor still runs the model.
A Superconductor agent sets up each project's environment. Connecting GitHub may need a GitHub organization admin to approve the app. Agents reach other tools through the built-in Linear integration and connectors for Notion, Jira, Sentry, Gmail, and custom MCP servers.
Superconductor vs Cursor pricing (seats vs credits)
Superconductor
Superconductor charges for compute in plan credits that the whole workspace shares. There is no per-seat price. In Superconductor, 100 credits buy one cloud computer hour on a 1 vCPU / 2 GB machine. Larger machines use credits in proportion to their size. Superconductor bills usage per second. The meter stops while a computer is idle. Model tokens come from your own Claude, ChatGPT, SuperGrok, or Muse Code plan, or from API keys for Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, OpenRouter, and others. Plan credits pay for the cloud computers only. Workspace credits, which Superconductor grants on request to teams without a plan or API key, can also pay for model tokens.
- Free. 20,000 credits to start. Connecting Slack and inviting teammates adds bonus credits. Up to 4 vCPU / 8 GB RAM, 4 team members, 4 concurrent agents. Start here
- Pro, from $50 a month. 20,000 to 400,000 credits a month ($50 to $1,000), up to 8 vCPU / 32 GB RAM, 40 team members, unlimited concurrent agents, and the benchmark on your own pull requests. Usage past the monthly credits is $25 per 10,000 credits, and unused credits roll over for one month.
- Enterprise, custom. Unlimited credits, up to 16 vCPU / 64 GB RAM, unlimited members, private infrastructure, SLAs, dedicated support.
Superconductor pricing figures match the pricing page as checked on November 3, 2026.
Cursor
As of November 2026, Cursor charges per seat and sells its plans inside The X Subscription, which also covers Grok and X. Each paid plan includes a weekly allowance for Composer and Grok. Grok's own apps, such as Grok Chat and Grok Bot, draw on the same allowance. Past it, usage comes out of prepaid usage credit at Cursor's per-token rates. Third-party models cost API list price from prepaid usage credit, or you can use your own API keys. Teams and Enterprise add a Cursor Token Rate of $0.25 per million tokens on most third-party models.
- Free. Agent and chat with limited usage.
- Plus, $8 a month. A base weekly allowance for Cursor's own models at fixed settings. As of November 2026, Cursor does not state its size in tokens or requests. No cloud agents, automations, Bugbot, third-party models, or your own API keys.
- Premium, $30 a month. Four times the Plus allowance. Adds cloud agents, automations, Bugbot, Grok Bot, and third-party models at API list price.
- Super, $100 a month. 15 times the Plus allowance, and priority model access at peak times.
- Ultra, $200 a month. 50 times the Plus allowance, and the earliest access to new products and models.
- Teams, from $30 per seat a month. Premium, Super, or Ultra seats at $30, $100, or $200 a month, mixed on one team. Adds SAML or OIDC single sign-on, usage analytics, per-member spend limits, and a team marketplace.
- Enterprise, custom. Usage shared across the company, invoicing, SCIM, audit logs, group spend limits, a HIPAA business associate agreement, and US data residency.
Cursor pricing figures match Cursor's documentation as checked on November 2, 2026. Annual billing is available on individual plans. Current pricing is available at cursor.com/pricing.
When it makes sense to use both
Teams use both when engineers like the Cursor editor on their laptops but want Cursor's agent runs reviewed where the rest of the team can see them. Add a Cursor API key in Superconductor's workspace or project settings and pick the Cursor harness on a ticket. The run appears in the same session as any Claude Code or Codex run on that ticket, and Guided Review, QA Checks, and the live preview all work on it. Bugbot, Cursor's automations, and Cursor's usage reporting stay in Cursor.
Which one should I choose?
Choose by who needs to check agent work before it merges: engineers with Cursor seats and repository access (Cursor), or anyone on the team, including non-technical staff (Superconductor). Some teams use both and run Cursor's agent as a harness inside Superconductor.
Go with Superconductor if
- You want to pick the agent harness per ticket and use your existing Claude, ChatGPT, SuperGrok, or Muse Code plans.
- You want product managers, designers, and support staff to check the running app before a change merges.
- You want the QA Checks agent to compare each change with the original request before anyone reviews it.
Go with Cursor if
- Your engineers spend most of the day in the Cursor editor and want agent runs handed back to it.
- Your code is on GitLab, Bitbucket, or Azure DevOps (the last two in public beta for Cursor's cloud agents as of November 2026), or your security review requires SOC 2 Type II, SCIM, and audit logs.
- You want automations that start agents from Sentry, PagerDuty, or a webhook, and Bugbot to review every pull request.
Frequently asked questions
Is Cursor better than Superconductor?
Neither is better; they do different jobs. Cursor is an AI code editor with cloud agents for software engineers, and teammates can watch a run and steer it once an admin turns on follow-ups. Superconductor is a multiplayer AI platform where you pick the agent harness per ticket and use tokens from plans you already hold. Technical and non-technical members review together in one shared session.
Is Cursor just for developers?
Cursor is built for software engineers. Its editor, Agents Window, and cloud agents assume the person starting the work has the repository open or connected. Superconductor is a multiplayer AI platform built for whole teams of engineers and non-technical users. Product managers, designers, and support staff write tickets and check the running app before anything merges.
Can Superconductor run Cursor?
Yes. Superconductor runs Cursor's agent, including Cursor's Composer and Grok models, as one of its agent harnesses on Superconductor's cloud computers. Add a Cursor API key in workspace or project settings and pick Cursor on any ticket. Cursor charges the key owner's Cursor plan for the agent's usage, and Superconductor charges credits for the cloud computer.
How does Cursor's seat pricing compare with Superconductor's?
As of November 2, 2026, Cursor charges per seat, and Cursor Premium, the first plan with cloud agents, costs $30 a month. Each paid seat includes a weekly allowance for Cursor's own models. Superconductor's Pro plan starts at $50 a month for the whole workspace, and 100 credits buy one hour on a 1 vCPU / 2 GB machine. Cursor seats and Superconductor credits do not compare directly because a Cursor seat includes model usage and a Superconductor credit pays only for compute.
Can I choose the model in Cursor?
Yes. As of November 2026, Cursor lets you choose Composer, Grok, Claude, GPT, Gemini, or an open model for each request. Models other than Composer and Grok require Premium or above, and the agent harness is always Cursor's. In Superconductor you choose a harness and a model for each ticket.
What are the Cursor alternatives for teams?
Claude Code, Codex, Devin, and Factory Droid are alternatives, and each is a single agent harness with its own app. As of November 2026, Superconductor is a multiplayer AI platform that runs Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Pi, Factory Droid, Muse Code, and other agent harnesses on cloud computers. Cursor suits teams whose engineers want one vendor for the editor, cloud agents, and pull request review.
How much does Cursor cost in 2026?
As of November 2, 2026, Cursor Free costs nothing, Plus costs $8 a month, Premium $30, Super $100, and Ultra $200. Teams costs $30, $100, or $200 per seat a month, Enterprise is priced on request, and cloud agents start at Premium. On Premium and above, Claude, GPT, and Gemini are billed separately through prepaid usage credit or your own API keys, and Teams and Enterprise add $0.25 per million tokens on most third-party models. Current pricing is available at cursor.com/pricing.
Superconductor publishes this page and is one of the two products compared. Facts are from each vendor's public pages as of the dates listed in the Sources section.
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Cursor's facts come from Cursor's documentation and pricing page, and Superconductor's from its pricing page and documentation, checked November 2, 2026. The integration is described from Superconductor's documentation for the Cursor agent harness.
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