Start includes generous access to Grok 4.5 and Composer, so you can plan, build, test, and ship with agents every day.

Cursor Start includes:

• Generous access to Cursor models. Run Grok 4.5, our most powerful Cursor model, and Composer, our most price-efficient coding model.
• More agent requests than the Free plan, across desktop, web, iOS, and the CLI, so you can build every day.
• Always-on cloud agents. Kick off long-running cloud agents that build, test, and open pull requests while you keep working.
• Cursor for iOS. Launch agents or control existing ones from your phone, then pick the work back up on your desktop.
• Extend Cursor across your workflow, with plugins, MCP servers, hooks, and skills.
• Local pricing. ₹649 per month, tax inclusive, billed monthly in INR with UPI or card.

Cursor Start sits between our two other individual plans, Free and Pro.

Free gives you a way to try Cursor with no payment required. It includes access to Composer and a limited number of local agent requests each month.

Pro is for developers who want access to every major model, including the most advanced ones from other labs, along with Bugbot, Auto mode, Automations, the Cursor SDK, and on-demand usage past the included limits. Cursor Start covers everyday building. When you need more, it's easy to change your plan to Pro.

Source: Cursor

Something I keep going back and forth on as a founder: how much structured testing does an early product actually need before real users touch it?

The instinct when you are moving fast is to skip straight to launch and let users tell you what is broken. Sometimes that is the right call. But I have also watched teams burn goodwill by pushing something raw to their whole audience at once, when a smaller controlled release would have caught the worst of it first.

That is basically the distinction between alpha and beta. Alpha is internal, you and your team beating on the product in a controlled setting to catch the obvious breakage. Beta is a limited real-world release to a subset of actual users before you open the gates fully. Founders tend to collapse both into "just ship it," but they solve different problems, and knowing which one you are skipping is useful. This breakdown of alpha vs beta testing lays out where each fits if you want the fuller version.

For the folks here who have launched: did you run any kind of closed beta, or did you go straight to public and iterate live? Curious whether the extra step was worth it for you or just slowed you down.

Claude gets India pricing

• Pro: ₹2,000/month (annual billing)
• Max: starts at ₹11,999/month
• Team: ₹2,399/seat/month

Only cards and app store billing available. No UPI yet.