Cursor records 4,790,129 monthly visits with +6.5% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Prolific records 18,697,671 monthly visits with -1.8% growth and Paid pricing.
The AI coding agent that turns ideas into shipped software
High-quality human data for AI training, evaluation, and research
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | cursor.sh | prolific.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 4.79M (4,790,129) | 18.7M (18,697,671) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +291.91K (+6.5%) | -352.04K (-1.8%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (22.8%) | 🇺🇸 United States (48.8%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 410.78K | 12.98M |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.6 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
The AI coding agent that turns ideas into shipped software
Hand off a task in plain language and agents plan it, edit across multiple files, run commands, and report back what changed.
Launch several agents at once in hosted environments so long-running work continues in the background while you focus elsewhere.
Choose between models from multiple leading providers per task, balancing reasoning depth, speed, and cost as needed.
Cursor runs as a desktop IDE, in the terminal via CLI, and inside Slack and GitHub so agents review pull requests in existing workflows.
High-quality human data for AI training, evaluation, and research
Filter participants by detailed demographic, professional, and behavioural criteria and reach narrow or representative samples rather than a generic crowd.
Collect human preference data for model fine-tuning, run safety evaluations and red-teaming, and use a feedback API to plug humans into automated pipelines.
Attention checks, honesty screening, and approval workflows help filter out careless or fraudulent responses before you analyse results.
Publish a study and begin collecting responses quickly, with tooling that supports screening, quotas, and longitudinal designs.
SpecialistOpenAI's flagship multimodal assistant powered by GPT-6 and GPT-5.6 for reasoning, coding, and deep research.
SpecialistOpenAI's flagship multimodal assistant powered by GPT-6 and GPT-5.6 for reasoning, coding, and deep research.
SpecialistProvides superior reasoning and code generation via chat and artifacts, but lacks native inline code editing inside your codebase.
SpecialistProvides superior reasoning and code generation via chat and artifacts, but lacks native inline code editing inside your codebase.
Offers powerful parallel agentic workflows and a dedicated desktop environment, but has a steeper setup curve than Cursor.
Offers powerful parallel agentic workflows and a dedicated desktop environment, but has a steeper setup curve than Cursor.
SpecialistAllows rapid cloud-based full-stack app deployment from natural language, but lacks a local filesystem IDE experience.
SpecialistAllows rapid cloud-based full-stack app deployment from natural language, but lacks a local filesystem IDE experience.
Free / Open-sourceProvides total customization and standard extension support, but requires manual setup of AI extensions to match Cursor's integration.
Free / Open-sourceProvides total customization and standard extension support, but requires manual setup of AI extensions to match Cursor's integration.
Delivers deep codebase indexing and multi-file task execution via IDE plugins, but lacks a fully custom standalone editor.
Delivers deep codebase indexing and multi-file task execution via IDE plugins, but lacks a fully custom standalone editor.
Large consumer panel for market research surveys, but lacks Prolific's specialized focus on academic studies and AI tuning.
Large consumer panel for market research surveys, but lacks Prolific's specialized focus on academic studies and AI tuning.
Provides spec-driven AI development workflows from AWS, but focuses more on structured engineering specifications than freeform editing.
Provides spec-driven AI development workflows from AWS, but focuses more on structured engineering specifications than freeform editing.
SpecialistOperates as a fully autonomous AI software engineer for pull requests, but offers less interactive inline editing than Cursor.
SpecialistOperates as a fully autonomous AI software engineer for pull requests, but offers less interactive inline editing than Cursor.
SpecialistThe environments frontier AI trains on, and the agents that do the recurring work
SpecialistThe environments frontier AI trains on, and the agents that do the recurring work
Features a polished AI-native IDE interface and smart coding agent, but lacks Cursor's mature extension ecosystem.
Features a polished AI-native IDE interface and smart coding agent, but lacks Cursor's mature extension ecosystem.
Enterprise-grade data annotation and AI alignment workforce, but less self-serve for academic study recruitment and casual surveys.
