Cursor vs Warp

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 1.2 for Warp, 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 1.2)
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 Warp if…

AI answers describe it more positively (100% vs 53% positive)
You need SOC 2 Type 2 coverage
best for power users

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 3

Metric	Cursor	Warp
Visibility score	67.7%	1.2%
Change vs last week	New	New
Rank in AI Coding Assistants	#2	#25
Share of voice	13.6%	0.4%
Mentions this run	65	2
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 · Warp 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Engine by engine

Cursor leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

78.7%

3.7%

AI Mode

73.5%

Perplexity

50.9%

CursorWarp

Head to head in AI answers

2 engine answers name both brands

2Cursor ranked higher

0Warp ranked higher

Prompt	Engine	Cursor	Warp
What are common mistakes when buying an AI coding assistant?	ChatGPT	#1	#7
Which AI coding assistant tools offer annual discounts?	ChatGPT	#1	#3

Features, pricing & fit

Dimension	Cursor	Warp
Pricing model	—	Flat tiers
Entry price	—	Free; paid from $20 / mo
Free plan	—	Yes
Deployment	Desktop, CLI, web, mobile and cloud agents	Desktop apps plus Warp's cloud, with an option to self-host in your own VPC
Compliance	AIUC-1, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 42001:2023, SOC 2 Type II	SOC 2 Type 2
Support	Customer support by email at hi@cursor.com, Priority support on the Enterprise plan	Private email support, Dedicated account manager and shared Slack channel (Enterprise), White-glove onboarding (Enterprise)
Founded	—	2020
Headquarters	—	New York, NY
Employees	501–1,000	51–200
Funding	Funding round at $9.9B valuation	Seed · $73M 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 run AI coding agents across the terminal and cloud and want control over models and infrastructure.