Cursor Pricing and How to Pay: Crypto, PayPal and Gift Cards
Cursor Pro is $20 a month, Pro+ $60 and Ultra $200. Which payment methods Cursor accepts, why there’s no crypto or gift card, and what you can do instead.
We only sell official gift links, codes, cards or keys that work on your own account.
Card-only billing, with no gift cards or gift plans. People have asked Cursor for gifting on its forum.
1 request so far. Requests are anonymous and help us decide what to add next.Cursor, the AI code editor made by Anysphere, has no crypto option, no PayPal and no gift cards, and it authorizes no resellers. This page covers Cursor pricing, the ways you can actually pay for it, and alternatives you can buy with crypto.
Cursor changed hands this year: SpaceX completed its purchase of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, on August 14, 2026. The plans below are the ones on cursor.com on October 7, 2026.
Cursor plans and prices
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | What it’s for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby | Free | — | Trying Cursor, with limited Agent requests |
| Pro | $20 | $16 a month ($192 a year) | Cursor’s own models, plus third-party models at API price |
| Pro+ | $60 | $48 a month ($576 a year) | Cursor’s pick “for daily agent users” |
| Ultra | $200 | $160 a month ($1,920 a year) | Cursor’s pick for “agent power users” |
| Teams Standard | $40 per user | $32 per user a month | Shared billing and admin for teams |
| Teams Premium | $120 per user | $96 per user a month | Five times Standard’s Agent limits |
Prices are in US dollars and exclude tax. Cursor doesn’t publish separate pound or euro prices. In India there’s also a cheaper Start plan at ₹649 a month, tax included.
Every plan includes a set amount of model usage. When it runs out, you can keep going with on-demand usage, billed afterwards to your card. The India Start plan has no on-demand usage. Cursor’s own guide puts daily Agent users at about $60 to $100 a month in total, and power users at $200 or more.
How Cursor takes payment
Cursor’s pricing page is direct about it: “Self-serve plans support all major credit and debit cards.” Payments run through Stripe: you click Manage Subscription to open Stripe’s billing portal and update your card there.
| Payment method | Accepted? |
|---|---|
| Credit and debit cards | Yes |
| PayPal | No |
| Crypto (Bitcoin, USDT and others) | No |
| Gift cards or prepaid codes | No, Cursor doesn’t sell any |
| App Store (iPhone) | Yes, monthly plans in the Cursor app |
| Google Play (Android) | Yes, monthly plans through the Grok Bot app |
| UPI | Only for the Start plan in India |
| Invoice or wire transfer | Enterprise only |
Can you pay for Cursor with crypto?
Not directly. A Cursor staff member confirmed on Cursor’s forum in November 2025 that crypto payments “aren’t currently supported”, and a request for USDT in April 2026 closed without an answer. Cursor has no crypto processor, coin list or wallet address.
That leaves three legitimate options.
Subscribe in the iPhone app. The Cursor app for iPhone sells monthly Pro at $25.99, Pro+ at $77.99 and Ultra at $259.99 in the US App Store. Apple is the merchant, and Apple charges your Apple Account balance before your card, though it notes that some subscriptions can’t be paid from balance. In-app plans are monthly only, and any on-demand usage beyond the plan still has to go on a card you add on the web.
Subscribe on Android through Google Play. Cursor sells monthly Pro, Pro+ and Ultra as in-app purchases in the Grok Bot app.
Use a crypto debit card. Cursor’s checkout sees it as an ordinary card. The card issuer will ask for your ID, and the card can be declined for the same reasons as any other card.
What you shouldn’t do is buy a “Cursor Pro account” or key from a marketplace. Cursor’s FAQ says it does “not authorize any resellers or third-party sellers” and that accounts bought elsewhere “may be suspended or terminated at any time.”
Gift cards and paying for someone else
Cursor doesn’t sell gift cards. Asked on its forum in February 2026, a staff member replied: “for the moment we do not offer gift cards.” Any Cursor gift card you see for sale is not an official Cursor product.
If you want to pay for someone else’s Cursor, the official way is a Teams plan. The team owner pays per seat and invites the members.
Alternatives you can pay for with crypto
If the point is an AI that writes and edits code for you, three of the plans we sell come with coding tools of their own, and you can pay for them in USDT, Bitcoin, Monero and other coins:
- Claude Pro and Max include Claude Code, Anthropic’s coding agent. We sell them as official Claude gifts. See Claude Pro vs Max for how the limits work.
- ChatGPT Plus and Pro include Codex, OpenAI’s coding agent. ChatGPT Go vs Plus vs Pro compares the limits.
- SuperGrok includes Grok Build and Grok Bot, and Cursor’s own model pool now runs Grok 4.7, 4.6 and 4.5. A SuperGrok plan doesn’t include Cursor itself. Our Grok pricing guide explains the tiers.
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xAI · GrokQuestions people ask
Does Cursor accept crypto?
No. Cursor’s self-serve plans accept credit and debit cards only, and Cursor staff confirmed in November 2025 that crypto payments aren’t supported.
Does Cursor accept PayPal?
No. Cursor’s checkout runs on Stripe and takes cards. Cursor staff have said PayPal isn’t available to them through Stripe.
Is there a Cursor gift card?
No. Cursor said in February 2026 that it doesn’t offer gift cards, and it doesn’t authorize any resellers.
How much is Cursor Pro?
Cursor Pro is $20 a month, or $16 a month billed yearly ($192 a year), before tax. In the iPhone app it costs $25.99 a month.
Is there still a Cursor student discount?
Not for new students. Cursor closed sign-ups for its student discount on June 25, 2026. Students who already had it keep their rate until their plan ends.
Can I get a refund on Cursor?
Cursor can refund the latest payment if it was made in the last 14 days and you haven’t used the plan during that billing period. Purchases through Apple or Google are refunded by Apple or Google.
Sources
- Cursor: Pricing and pricing docs
- Cursor Help: Billing, App Store subscriptions, Google Play subscriptions, Refunds and Student discount
- Cursor Forum: Add payment through crypto and Gift subscriptions
- Cursor: Cursor is now part of SpaceX, August 14, 2026
- Apple App Store: Cursor for iPhone
- Apple Support: How apps, content and subscriptions are billed
What you can pay for with crypto here
Official plans on your own account. Pick your plan and your account’s country, then pay in USDT, Bitcoin, Monero or another coin.
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