# Cursor – Anysphere

## Kurzbeschreibung
**"Built to make you extraordinarily productive, Cursor is the best way to code with AI."**


**Cursor** is an AI-powered development environment for software development with agents, autocomplete, CLI, cloud agents, and code review features.


Officially, Cursor is positioned as a tool that enables developers to delegate tasks to agents, write code faster, and work in parallel across multiple environments. More recent releases add, among other things, an agent-centric interface, parallel multitasking with subagents, canvases, and automations.

## Claim
Built to make you extraordinarily productive, Cursor is the best way to code with AI

## Geeignet für
- API Integration
- Automation / Workflows
- Productivity & Planning
- Programming / Software Development
- Websites / Landing Pages

## Kernfunktionen
- App Development
- AI Agents
- Programming

## Preismodell
- **free:** Free use without a credit card, limited agent requests and limited tab completion.
- **subscription:** **Pro** Extended agent limits, access to frontier models, MCPs, Skills, Hooks, and Cloud Agents.


**Pro+** Everything in Pro plus significantly more usage for OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini models.


**Ultra** Everything in Pro plus very high usage and priority access to new features.


**Teams** Everything in Pro plus shared chats, Commands and Rules, centralized billing, usage analytics, org-wide Privacy Mode, RBAC, and SAML/OIDC SSO.
- **other:** **Enterprise** Pooled Usage, Invoice/PO Billing, SCIM, AI Code Tracking API, Audit Logs, granular admin/model controls, Priority Support, and Account Management.


**Bugbot **Separate code review/bug detection offering with Pro, Teams, and Enterprise options.

## DSGVO und Datenschutz
**Gesamteinschätzung:** Conditional

**Overall assessment of hosting & data: **

Cursor is primarily a cloud-supported AI IDE with a local editor, backend services, agents, model providers, codebase context, and optional team/enterprise controls. Full on-premises hosting of the Cursor platform is not publicly documented as a standard option. Positive aspects include Privacy Mode, ZDR with model providers, SOC 2 Type II, SSO/RBAC in team plans, model blocklists, and admin governance. Critical concerns remain cloud dependency, subprocessors, model routing, and unclear EU data residency. 


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Conclusion: **

Cursor is very strong for productive AI software development; for sensitive codebases, Privacy Mode should be mandatory, and Team/Enterprise with model controls, SSO, RBAC, and DPA should be used.









[Privacy Policy](https://cursor.com/de/privacy) [Security](https://cursor.com/de/security)

**GDPR assessment**: From a GDPR perspective, Cursor is conditionally to well suited, especially with Privacy Mode enabled and for Team/Enterprise use. 


**Positive** is that Anysphere provides a Data Processing Addendum, addresses EU/UK data protection law and Standard Contractual Clauses, and refers to SOC 2 Type II, annual penetration tests, and subprocessor review. Also positive: When Privacy Mode is enabled, Cursor implements technical and contractual measures such as Zero Data Retention with model providers, so that code data is not stored by model providers or used for training. 


**Negative** is that Cursor is a US-adjacent cloud/SaaS tool, uses subprocessors, and there is no publicly documented general EU-only hosting as a standard. 


**Server location:** No confirmed general EU server location; however, Cursor states that it does not use infrastructure in China. Further link: Cursor Security, Data Use, DPA.


[Privacy Policy](https://cursor.com/de/privacy) [Security](https://cursor.com/de/security)

## Hosting und Daten
- **On-Prem / lokales Hosting:** teilweise / indirekt
- **Private Cloud / Rechenzentrum:** unknown
- **EU SaaS / Managed:** teilweise / indirekt
- **Hybrid:** teilweise / indirekt
- **AVV / DPA:** abgedeckt
- **Kein Training auf Kundendaten:** abgedeckt
- **Open-Source / Transparenz-Pfad:** teilweise / indirekt

## Standort
**Land:** USA

**Taxonomie:** USA

Anysphere, Inc., 2261 Market Street STE 86466, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA.

## Vorteile
- Very strong focus on agentic software development rather than just chat in the editor.
- Parallelization: agents can work locally, in worktrees, in the cloud, and via remote SSH.
- Specialized tab model for very fast autocompletion.
- Pro includes frontier models, MCPs, Skills, Hooks, and Cloud Agents.
- SOC 2 Type II and publicly documented security/privacy materials.

## Nachteile
- No publicly documented on-prem/self-hosted model for the complete service; the AI functions run via Cursor infrastructure and model providers.
- Primary servers are located in the USA; therefore, data protection for EU organizations is not “automatically” unproblematic.
- When Privacy Mode is disabled, Cursor may use code/prompt/editor data to improve AI functions and for model training.
- Even when using your own API key, requests still continue to run through the Cursor backend according to Cursor.
- The Free plan is functionally limited; additional usage may be billed on a usage-based basis.

## Quellen
- Offizielle Website: https://cursor.com/

## Letzter Datenstand
2026-04-25

## Originalseite
https://kifox.ai/en/ki-tools/cursor-anysphere-en/