Cursor free trial: removed in July, so the Free plan is your test

Does Cursor have a free trial?

No. Cursor's pricing page lists Free at $0, Plus at $8, Premium at $30, Super at $100 and Ultra at $200 a month, with no trial on any of them, as of 9 November 2026. Its pricing help article doesn't mention one either. The trial didn't vanish in one step, though. Here's how it went:

In June 2024 a Cursor staff member wrote on Cursor's forum: "Users during the pro trial will have access to all pro-features." A user in the same thread added that the 14 days ran on real time from sign-up. By 2026 Cursor was calling it a 7-day trial. Then, on 3 July 2026, another Cursor staff member wrote on the forum: "The 7-day Pro trial has been officially removed." A day earlier, a user in that thread had quoted an email from Cursor's AI support assistant: "There's no 2-week or any other trial period available on paid plans."

So the guides that promise a 14-day Cursor trial are describing 2024. The ones that promise 7 days are describing spring 2026. Neither exists now.

Every route to free or cheap Cursor, checked 9 November 2026

Ten routes come up when you search for free Cursor. Three of them are gone, and one is for people who already pay. Each row comes from Cursor's or xAI's own pages, except the forum rows, which quote Cursor staff:

The credit grants are real but you can't ask for one. A Cursor staff member explained on the forum on 13 July 2026 that a banner credit "automatically applies to your usage in Cursor like model requests agent and chat." He added: "It does not go toward paying for the subscription itself." Later replies said some grants cover only one kind of usage, such as cloud agents.

The $15 month is the only new-buyer discount we've seen, and it's a week old. We read it on xAI's grok.com checkout on 2 November 2026 as "50% off for 1 month, then $30 monthly." On 9 November that checkout wouldn't load for us, and Cursor's own pricing page showed no discount. Check the checkout before you count on it.

What does Cursor's Free plan include?

Cursor Free gives you the editor with Agent, Chat and Tab on Cursor's own models, and a small allowance that Cursor doesn't size. The pricing page lists "Limited agent requests" and "Limited Chat requests". The help article says "Free gives you access to Cursor's core features with limited usage." xAI's launch post of 12 October 2026 calls it "a starter allowance for Cursor's coding agents".

What Free leaves out matters more. Cursor's model docs mark third-party models "Not available" on Free and on Plus. So you can't try Claude, GPT or Gemini in Cursor without Premium. Cloud agents and AI code reviews start on Premium too. Free tests the editor on Cursor's own models, and that's all it tests.

Why does Cursor say "too many free trial accounts used on this machine"?

It's Cursor's anti-abuse check, and Cursor support has to review it. Staff on the forum explained it on 27 July and again on 17 September 2026. You'll see it when Cursor detects other free accounts used on the same machine.

There are two ways past it. The first is to email Cursor support with the request ID and ask for a review. The second is to pay: a staff reply on 28 July said upgrading gets around the flag, since it "only applies to free trial usage on that machine." Staff point people to support, not to a reinstall.

Skip the trial reset tools on GitHub. They exist to get around the check Cursor built to stop repeat free accounts. There's also no paid trial left for them to reset.

Can you still get Cursor Pro for free?

No, not as a new customer, because Cursor no longer sells Pro at all. The legacy plans page lists Pro at $20 a month as a legacy plan, with Premium at $30 as its nearest match. People who already have Pro keep it until they switch or cancel. Cursor's help center says "Switching is optional," and moving to the new plans is permanent.

The free Pro routes have closed one by one. The two trials are gone. The student year ended for new sign-ups on 25 June 2026, as Cursor's student discount covers in full. What's left is credit, not Pro: the graduate form, event credits and the grants Cursor hands out on its own.

Don't buy a "Cursor Pro account" from a reseller. The pricing page says "Subscriptions are only sold directly through X Subscription Corp." It names no authorized resellers.

What is the cheapest way to test Cursor with Claude?

Premium's first month is the cheapest test of Claude inside Cursor: $15 on the grok.com checkout we read on 2 November, or $30 at list price, plus Claude's tokens. Cursor bills Claude Sonnet 5.5 at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output, from prepaid credit. A request that reads 40,000 tokens and writes 2,000 costs $0.10. We priced every route on 9 November 2026:

Cursor's pricing page says to cancel "at least 24 hours prior to renewal to avoid additional charges." So a one-month test is really a test of 29 days. If you code with Claude more than a few hours a week, price the tokens first. Cursor pricing works out a month of 420 requests.

The guest pass is the only free week of a paid coding agent we found. Anthropic's guest pass page says it gives "Seven days of free access to Claude's Pro plan, which includes Claude Code, Cowork, and Claude Design." An eligible Pro, Max or Ultra subscriber has to send it. You need a card, and it turns into paid Pro if you keep it. Cursor vs Claude Code compares the two agents.

Where Whizi fits, and where it doesn't

Whizi, which publishes this page, has no IDE, no coding agent and no API. It can't open your repo, run your tests or edit files the way Cursor does, so keep Cursor, Claude Code or Copilot for that work. What Whizi covers is the chat around the code. Its free tier gives 10 messages a day on Whizi AI, Auto and Claude Haiku 5.5. Whizi Pro puts Claude, GPT and Gemini in one chat for $29.99 a month, and its first week is $1.99. That helps when you're paying for two chat plans just to ask questions about code. The cheapest way to use Claude and GPT and one subscription for every AI model show where one plan beats two.