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Comparing as AI Code Editors & IDEs
Refact.ai vs Cursor

Refact.ai

Refact.ai

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Cursor

Cursor

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Detailed Comparison

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Refact.ai
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Pricing
FreemiumRefact.ai is free to start with 2,000 agent/chat coins per month — no credit card required. This covers basic AI Agent and chat usage with access to the platform's full feature set within the monthly quota. Pro costs $10/month (or $8/month billed annually) and provides a higher coin allocation for developers who use the AI Agent and chat heavily on a daily basis. Enterprise pricing is custom and covers three deployment models: self-hosted on your own GPU infrastructure (any hardware you own or rent), AWS-managed (including AWS Inferentia2 for 1.5x price-performance), and VPC/cloud-managed SaaS. Enterprise adds dedicated engineer support, fine-tuning on your private codebase, code access restriction controls, team management dashboard, and SLA guarantees. Contact hello@refact.ai for enterprise pricing.
FreemiumCursor's Hobby plan is free with no credit card required, offering limited Agent requests, limited Tab completions, and access to Composer. Pro costs $20/month and includes extended Agent limits, generous Grok and Composer limits, access to frontier models, MCPs/skills/hooks, cloud agents, and a $20 monthly credit pool for premium model usage. Pro+ costs $60/month with roughly 3x Pro's usage limits and a larger credit pool (~$70). Ultra costs $200/month with about 20x Pro's limits, a ~$400 credit pool, and priority access to new features. Teams Standard costs $40/user/month and adds centralized billing, a team marketplace, Bugbot code reviews, shared cloud agents, usage analytics, team-wide privacy mode, and SAML/OIDC SSO; Teams Premium costs around $120/user/month with roughly 5x Standard's included usage. Enterprise is custom-priced and adds pooled usage, invoice/PO billing, SCIM seat management, repository/model/MCP access controls, audit logs, and an AI code tracking API. Annual billing saves approximately 20% across all paid plans, and all prices are exclusive of applicable taxes.
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AI Coding Assistants
Summary
Open-source AI coding agent — self-hosted, fine-tuned on your codebase, #1 SWE-bench
AI-native code editor with autonomous agents for building software
Refact.ai

Refact.ai Pros & Cons

Pros

  • #1 on SWE-bench Lite for open-source AI coding agents — independently validated autonomous task completion performance
  • Self-hosted on any hardware including AWS Inferentia2 — first AI coding assistant on Inferentia2 with 1.5x price-performance vs GPU
  • Fine-tuning on private codebase delivers ~45% code acceptance rate — significantly higher than generic completions
  • Open source with full transparency — audit the model, the agent code, and the inference pipeline
  • Supports both open-source LLMs (Code Llama, DeepSeek, Llama) and closed-source models (GPT-4, Claude) in self-hosted mode
  • Free plan with 2,000 coins/month and no credit card — genuinely usable for individual developers and evaluation

Cons

  • Smaller community and brand recognition than GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Codeium
  • Self-hosted deployment requires GPU hardware and technical infrastructure setup — not trivial for smaller teams
  • Agent mode still maturing compared to more established alternatives like Cursor or Cline
  • Cloud-hosted tier is newer and has fewer enterprise features than established alternatives like Tabnine or Augment Code
  • Visual Studio extension is in beta — not as polished as the VS Code and JetBrains plugins
  • Fine-tuning pipeline requires dedicated setup and data preparation — significant upfront investment for enterprise customization
Cursor

Cursor Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Deep AI-native integration rather than a bolted-on plugin experience
  • Free Hobby tier available with no credit card required
  • Wide model choice across OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and in-house Composer models
  • Autonomous cloud agents can work tasks end-to-end in parallel
  • Privacy Mode guarantees code isn't used for model training when enabled
  • SOC 2 certified with strong enterprise governance and access controls

Cons

  • Credit-based billing means heavy agent or premium-model usage can exceed the base plan quickly
  • Ultra tier is expensive at $200/month for power users
  • As a VS Code fork, some proprietary VS Code extensions may not be fully compatible
  • On-demand overage costs beyond included credits are billed in arrears and can surprise new users
  • Enterprise pricing and invoice billing require contacting sales rather than transparent self-serve rates