What Anysphere does

Anysphere, Inc. is the San Francisco-based developer of Cursor, an AI-native integrated development environment (IDE) and coding agent built on a forked VS Code base. Founded in 2022 by four MIT classmates — Michael Truell (CEO), Sualeh Asif (CPO), Aman Sanger (COO), and Arvid Lunnemark — the company layers proprietary in-house models (the Composer family for agentic coding, a Tab model for next-action prediction, and a Bugbot model for code review) on top of frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI, and is currently training a fully self-built 1.5-trillion-parameter model on xAI's Colossus supercomputer. The product surface spans the Cursor desktop editor, CLI, Cloud Agents that operate their own virtual machines, an Agents Window, a Browser/Design Mode, Cursor Mobile, Bugbot for GitHub/GitLab PR review, Cursor Automations for event-triggered workflows, and a Cursor SDK in TypeScript and Python, with the upcoming Origin agent-first Git platform built on acquired Graphite infrastructure.

Anysphere monetizes Cursor through a freemium funnel (free Hobby tier) that converts individuals and teams into Pro ($20/mo), Pro+/Ultra, and Teams ($40/user/mo) subscriptions, with hybrid enterprise contracts featuring pooled usage, SCIM, SAML/OIDC SSO, audit logs, and usage-based overage billed in arrears. Go-to-market combines product-led self-serve, a dedicated enterprise field sales motion segmented by industry (Financial Services, Healthcare, High Tech, Retail, SLED, Federal), and a global community program of 800+ events across 200+ cities. Cursor is reported as used by 64–67% of Fortune 500 companies and 50,000+ enterprise teams including NVIDIA (40,000 engineers), Adobe, Uber, Shopify, PayPal, Stripe, Coinbase, Brex, and Wayfair.

By mid-2026 Anysphere had reached approximately $4 billion in annualized run-rate revenue (with $2.6 billion attributed to B2B), up from $200 million ARR in March 2025, after raising roughly $3.4 billion in equity across rounds led by Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive, Accel, Coatue, NVIDIA, and Google. On June 16, 2026, SpaceX announced a definitive agreement to acquire Anysphere in a $60 billion all-stock deal — the largest venture-backed startup acquisition on record — expected to close in Q3 2026, with a Compute Agreement giving Cursor access to Colossus GPU resources post-close.

Name

Anysphere

Legal name

Anysphere, Inc.

Website

https://cursor.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Anysphere develops Cursor, an AI-native IDE and coding agent used by 64–67% of Fortune 500 companies and 50,000+ enterprise teams, layering proprietary Composer, Tab, and Bugbot models on top of frontier models and monetizing via freemium, per-seat, and usage-based enterprise plans.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Coding Tools

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Developer Experience Platforms for Enterprise (IDEs, CI/CD, Dev Portals) (HDAEAKAI), Model Development & Training Platforms (AutoML, Notebooks, Feature Stores) (HDAEANAB)

Keywords

• AI coding assistant
• Autonomous coding agents
• AI code review
• AI code editor
• Developer productivity tools

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Subscription (Pro/Pro+/Ultra Individual): Per-seat monthly subscriptions for individual developers ($20/mo for Pro) with extended limits on Agent, access to frontier models, MCPs/skills/hooks, cloud agents, and Bugbot on usage-based billing; tiers Pro+ and Ultra exist for heavier users.
2. Subscription (Teams): Per-seat subscriptions at $40/user/mo with centralized billing/admin, team marketplace for internal rules/skills/plugins, Bugbot code reviews, cloud agents and automations with shared context, usage analytics, team privacy mode, and SAML/OIDC SSO.
3. Enterprise contracts: Custom-priced enterprise plans with pooled usage, invoice/PO billing, SCIM seat management, repo/model/MCP access controls, auto-run/browser/network controls, audit logs, service accounts, AI code tracking API, and priority support.
4. Freemium / Hobby tier: Free Hobby tier with limited Agent requests and Tab completions, used as a top-of-funnel acquisition channel that converts into paid subscriptions.
5. Usage-based model consumption: Every paid plan includes a set amount of model usage with on-demand overage billed in arrears; enterprise customers can pre-commit additional usage for high-volume teams with admin-configurable limits per team and user.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Core offering

Anysphere develops Cursor, an AI coding agent and IDE that helps developers write, edit, review, and understand code through natural-language chat, multi-line autocomplete, and autonomous agents. The product is built on a fork of VS Code, powered by Cursor's proprietary Composer 2.5 model layered with frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI, and is delivered across desktop, CLI, web, mobile, and cloud surfaces.

Product overview

Anysphere's offering is a unified AI coding workspace centered on the Cursor desktop product, structured as a platform-plus-modules architecture. The core Cursor editor integrates Cursor Agents (autonomous multi-step coding), Cursor Tab (proprietary next-action prediction), the Cursor CLI (terminal agent), and the Agents Window (local + cloud orchestration). Surrounding this core are specialty modules: Bugbot for AI PR/code review, Design Mode for browser-based visual editing, Cursor Automations for always-on workflows, Cloud Agents for VM-hosted autonomous runs, and the Cursor Mobile web companion. The proprietary Composer 2.5 model powers the agent experience and Bugbot, with the Cursor SDK (TypeScript and Python) enabling programmatic extension. Enterprise tier wraps the product with SAML/OIDC SSO, SCIM, audit logs, and admin controls, while the Cursor Marketplace distributes community plugins, skills, and automation templates.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Cursor: AI-powered coding agent and development environment offered as the company's flagship product line across desktop, CLI, cloud, and mobile surfaces.
• Bugbot
• Origin
• Composer

Products and services

• Cursor Anysphere's flagship AI coding agent and IDE — a fork-based editor that deeply understands entire codebases and helps developers turn ideas into code via chat, autocomplete, and autonomous agents. Available on macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, CLI, and cloud surfaces.
• Bugbot AI code review tool that detects logic bugs and security issues in GitHub and GitLab pull requests with a low false-positive rate; powered by Composer 2.5; supports Bugbot Rules for custom standards.
• Cursor CLI Terminal-based Cursor agent that lets developers run agentic coding workflows in any terminal, script, or editor via a single install command (`curl https://cursor.com/install`).
• Cursor Cloud Agents Cloud-hosted agents that control their own sandboxed computers (own VM per agent) to build, test, and demo features end-to-end while the developer's local machine stays responsive. Supports scheduled and event-triggered automations from GitHub, Slack, Linear, and webhooks.
• Cursor SDK TypeScript (@cursor/sdk) and Python (cursor-sdk) SDKs for launching, steering, and composing custom Cursor agents, with custom tools via local MCP server, auto-review for tool calls, JSONL/SQLite persistence stores, and nested subagents for CI and production integrations.
• Cursor Mobile Mobile interface for iOS that allows developers to spawn and monitor cloud agents from their phone, with an Agent Dashboard showing task progress and results.
• Cursor Marketplace Marketplace for community-built plugins, skills, and automation templates (including triage GitHub workflow failures and autofix PR review comments) that extend Cursor's capabilities.
• Cursor Enterprise Enterprise tier offering pooled usage, invoice/PO billing, SCIM seat management, repository/model/MCP access controls, audit logs, SAML/OIDC SSO, AI code tracking API, priority support, and dedicated guidance for Fortune 500 deployments.

Quantifiable outcome

• 64% of Fortune 500 companies use Cursor (50,000+ enterprises; ~100M+ lines of enterprise code written per day)
• +14 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration10 records

AI capability12 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 June 2026Acquired Anysphere (Cursor) in an all-stock deal valued at $60B in June 2026, the largest venture-backed startup acquisition on record; expected to close in Q3 2026. Includes a Compute Agreement providing Cursor with Colossus GPU resources, a $10B termination fee, and a $4B regulatory termination fee. Post-close, Cursor becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of SpaceX operating alongside xAI and integrated with the Grok Build platform.
• xAI (Grok)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2026Strategic April 2026 agreement that gives Cursor an exclusive purchase option for $60B (vs $10B partnership alternative) and access to xAI's Colossus supercomputer in Memphis — used to pre-train Cursor's 1.5T-parameter self-built model on >100,000 Nvidia GPUs. Post-SpaceX acquisition, xAI is the parent of Cursor; Grok 4.3 is available as a selectable model.
• Moonshot AI (Kimi K2.5)coreTechnology or Integration · 1 April 2026Cursor's Composer 2 and Composer 2.5 models are built on Moonshot AI's open-source Kimi K2.5 checkpoint with continued pretraining and large-scale RL; Cursor publicly thanks the Moonshot team in research papers.
• GraphitecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Cursor's upcoming agent-first Git hosting platform, Origin, is built on Graphite's infrastructure and slated for fall 2026 availability.
• OpenAIflagshipTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2023Provides GPT-5.5 and earlier frontier models as selectable options inside Cursor's model picker; OpenAI's Startup Fund led Cursor's seed round and Greg Brockman (President) is a named public endorser.
• AnthropicflagshipTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2023Provides Claude Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 4.5 as selectable models inside Cursor; primary competitor to Cursor's own Composer models and to Claude Code, which has been taking AI coding market share from Cursor in 2025-2026.
• Google (Gemini)coreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2023Gemini 3.1 Pro available as a selectable model inside Cursor alongside OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI models.
• SlackflagshipTechnology or IntegrationCursor ships an official Slack app (cursor.com/api/install-slack-app) that lets teams @mention Cursor to delegate tasks with full thread context, and supports Slack triggers (emoji reactions) for Cursor Automations. Highlighted in a 'Cursor x Slack' partner spotlight workshop (April 2026).
• GitHubflagshipTechnology or IntegrationGitHub PR integration powers Bugbot code review, Bugbot Autofix, and 5 GitHub triggers for Cursor Automations (issue comments, PR review comments, PR reviews, review threads, workflow runs); the Cursor bot runs as 'cursorbot' on PRs.
• Linear / JiracoreTechnology or IntegrationCursor integrates as an assignable agent in Linear and Jira so teams can turn issues into PRs; also supports Linear/Jira triggers for Cursor Automations.
• Microsoft TeamscoreTechnology or IntegrationCursor supports mention-based agent delegation in Microsoft Teams alongside Slack.
• JetBrainsflagshipTechnology or IntegrationJetBrains and Cursor announced an ACP-compliant collaboration making Cursor a 'special guest' agent inside JetBrains IDEs, expanding Cursor's reach to JetBrains' existing developer base.
• DatadogminorGTM or Marketing PartnerFeatured in a 'Cursor x Datadog' partner spotlight workshop (April 2026); Datadog's CTO is also a named public endorser of Cursor.

Scale indicators19 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• GitHub Copilot: Microsoft's AI coding assistant integrated into VS Code (the base Cursor forked) and the broader GitHub ecosystem. Closest direct competitor for AI code completion and chat in the enterprise, with deep distribution advantages inside Microsoft/GitHub enterprise contracts.
• Anthropic Claude Code: Anthropic's terminal/agentic coding product built around Claude models. Per PYMNTS analysis it took substantial market share from Cursor in 2025-2026, and as a model-vendor product it represents both a partner (Cursor offers Claude inside its picker) and the most aggressive direct competitor.
• Windsurf (Codeium): AI-native IDE from Codeium positioned head-to-head against Cursor for individual developers and enterprise teams, with comparable Cascade agent flows and free/pro/enterprise tiers.
• Sourcegraph Cody / Amp: Sourcegraph's AI coding assistant/Amp agent product focused on large enterprise codebases — directly competes with Cursor's codebase indexing and enterprise positioning, especially among Fortune 500 engineering orgs.
• Tabnine: AI code completion and assistant platform with strong enterprise focus, privacy/on-prem variants, and IDE integrations; competes with Cursor's Tab and agent offerings at large enterprise accounts.
• JetBrains AI Assistant: AI features inside JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ, PyCharm, etc.), now partnered with Cursor via ACP but historically a direct competitor for AI-augmented coding inside the JetBrains ecosystem.
• Replit Agent: Cloud-based IDE with autonomous AI agent capabilities aimed at building and deploying software end-to-end; overlaps Cursor on cloud agents and full-stack development experiences.

Emerging players

• Cognition (Devin): Autonomous AI software engineer agent — overlapping with Cursor's Cloud Agents product for long-horizon, multi-step coding tasks, particularly for ticket-to-PR workflows.
• Cline / Continue: Open-source AI coding agents (Cline as VS Code extension, Continue.dev as configurable IDE agent) — emerging alternatives that compete on openness, model flexibility, and developer customization against Cursor's integrated IDE experience.

Broad incumbents

• Google Gemini Code Assist: Google's enterprise AI coding assistant integrated across VS Code, JetBrains, Cloud Console, and Google Cloud — competes with Cursor in enterprise deals where Google Cloud is the strategic vendor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/anysphere
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@cursor_ai
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/anysphereinc
• Facebookfacebook.com/cursordata

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds7 records

Investors14 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A6 records

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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