Cursor vs Tabby

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 0.3 for Tabby, and ranks ahead in 100% of the answers that name both.

Choose Cursor if…

You want the brand AI engines rank higher (67.7 vs 0.3)
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

Choose Tabby if…

AI answers describe it more positively (100% vs 53% positive)
You need a self-hosted or on-premises option
privacy and self-hosting

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 3

Metric	Cursor	Tabby
Visibility score	67.7%	0.3%
Change vs last week	New	New
Rank in AI Coding Assistants	#2	#36
Share of voice	13.6%	0.2%
Mentions this run	65	1
Positive in AI answers	53%	100%

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

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

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

Engine by engine

Cursor leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

78.7%

0.9%

AI Mode

73.5%

Perplexity

50.9%

CursorTabby

Head to head in AI answers

1 engine answers name both brands

1Cursor ranked higher

0Tabby ranked higher

Prompt	Engine	Cursor	Tabby
Alternatives to the most popular AI coding assistant	ChatGPT	#2	#10

Features, pricing & fit

Dimension	Cursor	Tabby
Pricing model	—	Per seat
Entry price	—	Free; paid from $19 per seat / mo
Free plan	—	Yes
Deployment	Desktop, CLI, web, mobile and cloud agents	Self-hosted on-premises or in the cloud, with no external DBMS or cloud services required
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	Community Slack, Email support, Dedicated Slack channel
Founded	—	2023
Headquarters	—	San Francisco, California, United States
Employees	501–1,000	11–50
Funding	Funding round at $9.9B valuation	Seed · $7M 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.	Developers and teams who want a self-hosted, open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot and need to keep control of their code and infrastructure.