Cursor Start India: ₹649 Price, Models and Limits

Cursor launched Start on July 28, 2026, as a monthly individual plan for developers in India, positioned between Free and Pro and billed in INR by UPI, credit card or debit card. It is now a legacy Cursor plan: it keeps working as it is for existing subscribers, and new customers start on The X SubscriptionThe subscription Cursor is sold through: one plan for Grok, Cursor and X, with Free, Plus, Premium, Super and Ultra tiers, per-seat Teams, a weekly included pool for Cursor models shared with Grok, and third-party models billed at API list price from prepaid credit. Press Enter for the full definition. instead.

The ₹649 price includes tax, while Cursor lists its other individual plans before tax. When you compare Start with a plan priced in dollars, compare what you would pay with tax included.

Eligibility is tied to India. When you subscribe, you verify an Indian phone number, and Cursor may ask for that verification if you pay with a non-Indian card. Cursor has not described Start as a discounted version of a bigger plan. It is a different bundle built around Cursor's own models, so compare the included products, not only the price.

Start includes a monthly pool of usage for Cursor's own models: Grok 4.7Cursor and SpaceXAI's current lead Cursor model, in the weekly pool at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output, with a 256k context window and a 500k variant; above 256k input tokens it bills at 2x the standard rate. Press Enter for the full definition., Grok 4.6A Cursor and SpaceXAI model for complex coding and knowledge work, still in the Cursor model pool and succeeded by Grok 4.7; it is a selectable model and is separate from the Grok Bot product. Press Enter for the full definition., Grok 4.5 and Composer 2.5The current Composer release, better at long-running tasks and at judging when a job needs a light touch versus deep work. Press Enter for the full definition.. All four run in non-fast mode. The three Grok models are fixed at medium effort, so you can't choose low, high or xhigh effort or turn on Fast mode. Composer 2.5 is the lower-cost model for everyday coding, and the Grok models are there when a task needs more depth.

The fixed settings matter when your workflow depends on a specific speed or reasoning control. That is a plan limit, not a hidden editor setting. The documented route is Premium or higher on The X SubscriptionThe subscription Cursor is sold through: one plan for Grok, Cursor and X, with Free, Plus, Premium, Super and Ultra tiers, per-seat Teams, a weekly included pool for Cursor models shared with Grok, and third-party models billed at API list price from prepaid credit. Press Enter for the full definition., or a legacy Pro or higher plan.

Cursor publishes no numeric Start allowance. Its help page says the monthly pool is larger than the free Hobby plan's, resets each billing cycle and doesn't roll over. It gives one ratio: the Grok models draw from the same pool as Composer 2.5The current Composer release, better at long-running tasks and at judging when a job needs a light touch versus deep work. Press Enter for the full definition. but use it faster, and Grok 4.5 uses it about three times as fast. Watch the usage dashboard with your own workload instead of planning around a number from an older plan or a forum post.

Start includes Agent, Plan and Ask modes, Cloud AgentsAgents that run in a Cursor-managed virtual machine, check out the repo, do the work and open a pull request, then shut down, with no load on your laptop. Press Enter for the full definition. and Cursor for iOS. It also includes the extension layer that lets an agent work beyond repository files: plugins, MCPModel Context Protocol. A standard that lets an AI agent pull in context from outside the repo, like Jira tickets or internal docs. Press Enter for the full definition. servers, hooks and skills. Between them, the plan supports a local coding session, a long cloud run or an agent started from a phone.

Each of those products keeps its own setup and security boundaries. A cloud agent needs a connected repository and an environment it can run in. An MCPModel Context Protocol. A standard that lets an AI agent pull in context from outside the repo, like Jira tickets or internal docs. Press Enter for the full definition. server gets only the accounts and permissions you authorize, and hooks inspect or block actions only when you configure them to. The plan grants access to each surface, but it doesn't set up a safe workflow for your project.

1. 1Confirm your account is an eligible India account on the Start plan.
2. 2Open the model picker and confirm Grok 4.7Cursor and SpaceXAI's current lead Cursor model, in the weekly pool at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output, with a 256k context window and a 500k variant; above 256k input tokens it bills at 2x the standard rate. Press Enter for the full definition., Grok 4.6A Cursor and SpaceXAI model for complex coding and knowledge work, still in the Cursor model pool and succeeded by Grok 4.7; it is a selectable model and is separate from the Grok Bot product. Press Enter for the full definition., Grok 4.5 and Composer 2.5The current Composer release, better at long-running tasks and at judging when a job needs a light touch versus deep work. Press Enter for the full definition. appear in non-fast mode.
3. 3Connect one test repository before starting a cloud agent.
4. 4Add plugins or MCPModel Context Protocol. A standard that lets an AI agent pull in context from outside the repo, like Jira tickets or internal docs. Press Enter for the full definition. servers one at a time and review their account permissions.
5. 5Check the usage dashboard after a representative week of work.

A small trial helps because included access and useful access are separate questions. If your normal day stays inside ComposerCursor's own fast coding model, tuned for the editor and priced well below frontier models; the recommended day-to-day model for executing a plan. Press Enter for the full definition. with an occasional Grok run, Start may fit well. If every task needs a third-party model or an automation trigger, the gap shows up immediately.

Start doesn't include the Other ModelsOn legacy Cursor plans, the monthly pool for supported third-party models from providers such as Anthropic, Google and OpenAI, separate from Cursor Models. On The X Subscription third-party models are billed from prepaid credit instead. Press Enter for the full definition. pool, on-demand usage, BugbotCursor's automated PR reviewer that posts inline findings and can push fix commits from isolated VMs. Press Enter for the full definition., Auto, Automations or the Cursor SDK. Without the Other Models pool, you can't select models from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI or other outside providers. The other exclusions remove automatic model routing, pull request review by Bugbot, scheduled or event-driven agent runs, and agents you build in code with the SDK.

On-demand usage is the less visible difference. A legacy Pro plan can keep going past its included limits through on-demand usage, if you turn it on. Start can't. When you reach the monthly limit, AI features pause until usage resets at the start of the next billing cycle. If a deadline depends on steady capacity, check your dashboard before a long batch of work.

Move when a missing capability is part of the job, not because another plan has a longer feature list. Clear triggers include needing Claude, Gemini or GPT models, choosing Fast or a different Grok effort level, running BugbotCursor's automated PR reviewer that posts inline findings and can push fix commits from isolated VMs. Press Enter for the full definition., creating Automations, building with the Cursor SDK, or paying to keep working after the included pool runs out.

Plan the move before you make it. Start can only be bought while your account is on the free plan, so once you move to any other paid plan you can't switch back to it directly.

Cursor documents two routes: cursor.com/unify for The X SubscriptionThe subscription Cursor is sold through: one plan for Grok, Cursor and X, with Free, Plus, Premium, Super and Ultra tiers, per-seat Teams, a weekly included pool for Cursor models shared with Grok, and third-party models billed at API list price from prepaid credit. Press Enter for the full definition., and the standard billing flow at cursor.com/dashboard/billing, priced in USD, for a legacy Pro, Pro+, Ultra or Teams plan.

On The X SubscriptionThe subscription Cursor is sold through: one plan for Grok, Cursor and X, with Free, Plus, Premium, Super and Ultra tiers, per-seat Teams, a weekly included pool for Cursor models shared with Grok, and third-party models billed at API list price from prepaid credit. Press Enter for the full definition., Cursor puts Plus closest to Start, but when a paid account switches, the unify flow offers Premium and above. Premium is also the first tier that adds third-party models, Cloud AgentsAgents that run in a Cursor-managed virtual machine, check out the repo, do the work and open a pull request, then shut down, with no load on your laptop. Press Enter for the full definition., Automations, BugbotCursor's automated PR reviewer that posts inline findings and can push fix commits from isolated VMs. Press Enter for the full definition. and Fast mode with effort levels.

Before you move, save a month of usage history and list the requests that Start couldn't complete. That record separates a real plan limit from a prompt, environment or repository problem that would follow you to the next plan. It also lets you check later whether the higher tier is earning its price.

If none of those triggers applies, stay. Cursor's launch post describes Start as covering desktop, web, iOS and the CLI, and the plan includes cloud agent work with Cursor's own models. Pay for more when an excluded tool changes an outcome you care about.