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Cursor vs getdebug

A side-by-side look at pricing, capabilities, pros, cons, and our editorial scores.

 
Cursor
Coding
getdebug
Coding
TaglineAI-first VS Code fork — chat, edit, and agentic coding in one IDE.AI-powered codebase analyzer and auto-fixer that ships validated PRs
CategoryCodingCoding
PricingFreemium· Hobby: Free · Individual: $20 / mo. · Teams: $40 / user / mo. · Enterprise: CustomFreemium· Free (up to 5 team members, BYO LLM key, 75 fix PRs/mo) / Pro $39 per dev/mo (up to 15 members, 150 AI fixes) / Pro Plus $79 per dev/mo (up to 30 members, 350 fixes, git-history provenance) / Custom for 30+ devs (monthly base + per-deep-scan, BYO provider keys). Annual billing ~20% off. 7-day trial, no card required.
ModelClaude / GPT (configurable)—
Editorial score9.5 / 10—
Use cases
codingrefactorsagentic editsIDE
Automated bug-fix pull requestsSecurity vulnerability remediationContinuous SAST replacementSecret-leak detection with git-history provenancePre-release deep code scansRegression triage on feature branchesAI-assisted code reviewCommitted-credential rotation workflows
Pros
  • Best-in-class multi-file edits
  • Choice of underlying models
  • Composer agent is genuinely useful
  • Tab completion is faster than Copilot
  • Delivers actual pull requests with proposed patches, not just a list of findings
  • Validates fixes against build and test signals before opening the PR, reducing noisy suggestions
  • Continuous repo watching plus on-demand deep scans in a single tool
  • First seat is always free, so solo devs and evaluators pay nothing on any tier
  • Free tier with BYO LLM key is genuinely usable for small teams (up to 5 members, 75 fix PRs/mo)
  • Stateful suppressions mean dismissed findings do not resurface each scan
  • Git-history provenance on Pro Plus pinpoints the first commit that leaked a secret
  • Publishes an adjacent security benchmark (codesecbench.org) that shows how detectors are calibrated
Cons
  • Heavier than vanilla VS Code
  • Pricing creeping up
  • Some extensions lag VS Code
  • Per-seat pricing scales quickly for larger teams once you cross the seat caps on each tier
  • Underlying model family is not disclosed on the marketing site, which matters for teams with model-governance requirements
  • Free tier requires bringing your own LLM API key, so the true cost is not zero at that level
  • Hard monthly caps on fix PRs (75 / 150 / 350) can be a ceiling for large monorepos with many findings
  • Human-in-the-loop by design — teams looking for a fully autonomous fixer that also merges will need something else
  • Only integrates with Git-hosted repositories, so non-Git or heavily air-gapped codebases are out of scope
Websitecursor.comwww.getdebug.dev
Pick Cursor if
  • ✅ Best-in-class multi-file edits
  • ✅ Choice of underlying models
  • ✅ Composer agent is genuinely useful
  • ✅ Tab completion is faster than Copilot
Pick getdebug if
  • ✅ Delivers actual pull requests with proposed patches, not just a list of findings
  • ✅ Validates fixes against build and test signals before opening the PR, reducing noisy suggestions
  • ✅ Continuous repo watching plus on-demand deep scans in a single tool
  • ✅ First seat is always free, so solo devs and evaluators pay nothing on any tier
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