Safer alternatives

Higher-scoring alternatives to Cursor

Scored against the same Balanced rubric as Cursor. We compare services in the same category — Developer — and surface those that out-score Cursor overall.

Comparing against

Cursor

https://cursor.sh/

Risky

Raw score 39

Tied 368th · 14th percentile

In Developer: Tied 40th · 8th percentile

MariaDB

https://mariadb.org

StrongRaw score 76+37 vs source

Aliyun

https://aliyun.com/

StrongRaw score 74+35 vs source

1st · 100th percentile

Datadog

https://datadoghq.com/

StrongRaw score 73+34 vs source

Tied 2nd · 98th percentile

ThemeForest

https://themeforest.net/

StrongRaw score 73+34 vs source

Tied 2nd · 98th percentile

Cloudinary

https://cloudinary.com/

StrongRaw score 70+31 vs source

Tied 4th · 93rd percentile