Cursor vs OpenHands

Which one do AI engines recommend, and how do they differ on price, fit and features?

The short answer

Cursor is the stronger AI pick in AI Coding Assistants: it has a visibility score of 67.7 versus 0 for OpenHands.

You want the brand AI engines rank higher (67.7 vs 0)
You need AIUC-1 or ISO/IEC 27001:2022 or ISO/IEC 42001:2023 or SOC 2 Type II coverage
You prefer a larger, established vendor (501–1,000 employees)
Strong codebase indexing and multi-file editing

Latest weekly run · Nov 3

The stronger value in each row is marked with a ✓.

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

Cursor 0pp · OpenHands 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Cursor leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

78.7%

AI Mode

73.5%

Perplexity

50.9%

CursorOpenHands

0 engine answers name both brands

0Cursor ranked higher

0OpenHands ranked higher

Dimension	Cursor	OpenHands
Pricing model	—	Per seat
Entry price	—	Free; paid from $500 per seat / mo
Free plan	—	Yes
Deployment	Desktop, CLI, web, mobile and cloud agents	Local machine, self-hosted VM, enterprise VPC, or OpenHands Cloud
Compliance	AIUC-1, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 42001:2023, SOC 2 Type II	—
Support	Customer support by email at hi@cursor.com, Priority support on the Enterprise plan	Open source community, Best effort email, SLA-based response times, Customer success manager (Enterprise)
Founded	—	2024
Employees	501–1,000	11–50
Funding	Funding round at $9.9B valuation	Series A · $24M raised
Best for	Individual developers and engineering teams that hand coding tasks to AI agents, and larger organizations that need enterprise security and admin controls.	Engineering teams that want model-agnostic coding agents they can self-host and control, from a single developer to an enterprise.