Cursor Launches $7 India Pricing Tier Weeks Before SpaceX's $60 Billion Buyout Closes
Cursor introduced a India-only subscription priced far below its standard Pro plan, its biggest push yet into the coding assistant's third-largest market as SpaceX's acquisition of parent company Anysphere heads toward a Q3 close.
Cursor rolled out Cursor Start, a India-specific subscription tier priced at roughly ₹649 a month (about $7), well under its standard $20-a-month Pro plan. The launch lands weeks before SpaceX's all-stock acquisition of Cursor's parent, Anysphere, is expected to close in Q3.
- Cursor Start bundles Composer 2.5 and Grok 4.5 but excludes frontier OpenAI and Anthropic models, Bugbot, and Auto Mode
- India is already Cursor's third-largest market globally and has its highest concentration of power users
- Cursor's India user base has more than tripled over the past year
- SpaceX agreed to buy Anysphere in a $60 billion all-stock deal announced June 16, 2026, with closing targeted for Q3
The cut-price tier signals Cursor is betting on volume in a price-sensitive market rather than pushing its full frontier-model lineup, a strategy other coding assistants may face pressure to match. Compare coding models head to head in testingmodels.com's coding arena.