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Cursor vs Together AI

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

 
Cursor
Coding
Together AI
Fine-tuning
TaglineAI-first VS Code fork — chat, edit, and agentic coding in one IDE.Fine-tune & serve open-weight models (Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek).
CategoryCodingFine-tuning
PricingFreemium· Free hobby; Pro $20/mo; Business $40/moPaid· Pay-per-token; fine-tuning per-token
ModelClaude / GPT (configurable)Llama / Mistral / Qwen / DeepSeek and others
Editorial score9.5 / 108.6 / 10
Use cases
codingrefactorsagentic editsIDE
open modelsfine-tuninginference
Pros
  • Best-in-class multi-file edits
  • Choice of underlying models
  • Composer agent is genuinely useful
  • Tab completion is faster than Copilot
  • Wide open-model catalogue
  • Competitive inference pricing
  • Fine-tune + serve in one place
  • Dedicated endpoints for production
Cons
  • Heavier than vanilla VS Code
  • Pricing creeping up
  • Some extensions lag VS Code
  • Latency varies by model
  • Less polish than OpenAI
Websitecursor.comwww.together.ai
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 Together AI if
  • ✅ Wide open-model catalogue
  • ✅ Competitive inference pricing
  • ✅ Fine-tune + serve in one place
  • ✅ Dedicated endpoints for production
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