Cursor now builds and hosts web apps from a prompt. Who gets it, and what it costs

What Cursor launched

On November 5, 2026, Cursor’s changelog announced Build Live Apps: “Describe what you want to create and Cursor will handle the rest: build the app, set up a database, configure auth, and deploy it.” A cloud agent does the work. It “will scaffold the web app, spin up a Postgres database if needed, set up authentication behind Cursor SSO, and provision hosting,” and if the app needs your own systems, such as a data warehouse, it asks for the secrets. Cursor’s docs add that “The agent never sees the values.”

An app can start from nothing, which “creates a new repository on Cursor Origin,” Cursor’s own code host, still in early beta, or from an existing GitHub repository. GitLab is “coming soon.” It works only in the cloud: “Remember to use a cloud agent; this feature is not supported locally.”

When you publish, you pick the app’s URL, Cursor runs its security checks, and “If all checks pass, Cursor returns a live link.” Each app is deployed “in a dedicated account it creates for your team, or for you on an individual plan,” kept apart from every other team’s and user’s.

Who can use it

“Apps is available on all paid plans with access to cloud agents,” say the docs, and that leaves out the two cheapest. Per Cursor’s cloud agent docs, “You need a plan that includes Cloud Agents: Premium and higher, Teams, Enterprise, or a legacy paid plan. Free and Plus don’t include them.”

Plan, checked November 9, 2026	Price a month	Live apps
Free	$0	No
Plus	$8	No
Premium	$30	Yes
Super	$100	Yes
Ultra	$200	Yes
Teams	$30, $100 or $200 a seat	Yes; public links off until an admin allows them
Legacy Pro, Pro+ and Ultra	$20, $60 and $200	Yes
Legacy Teams	$40 or $120 a seat	Yes

The prices are from Cursor’s models and pricing page for The X Subscription, which Cursor now sells with Grok and X, and its legacy plans page. The legacy rows only help if you’re already on one: “New customers start on The X Subscription.”

What it costs

Cursor hasn’t put a price on the hosting. Its changelog and docs list the plans, but no rate and no limits for an app’s hosting, database, storage or visitors. TechRepublic, which went through the pricing, came to the same place: “The company hasn’t published a separate price schedule for the databases and hosting provisioned through Build Live Apps.”

What Cursor does publish is the cost of building. “Cloud Agents use your plan’s usage like other agent work, at the selected model’s rate,” and it asks you to set a spend limit the first time you use them. On The X Subscription, Cursor’s own models, such as Grok 4.7 and Composer 2.5, draw on the plan’s weekly pool, while Claude, GPT and Gemini are “available in Cursor at the model’s API list price from the first request, paid from your prepaid credit.” The model you build with decides most of what a build costs.

Read the terms at the bottom of the docs, too. They say “hosting is separate from, and is not part of, our services, and is provided ‘as is’ and ‘as available,’” and that an app “may be revoked, terminated, removed, or suspended” for breaking Cursor’s rules “or for business, financial, or legal reasons.”

How it compares with ChatGPT Sites, Lovable and Replit

ChatGPT’s Sites is the closest match: Codex builds the site, and a ChatGPT plan hosts it. OpenAI has put a date on its price. “Hosting is free through December 31, 2026. Starting January 1, 2027, we’ll turn on metering and you’ll pay overages only for usage above your plan’s included monthly hosting allowance,” says its guide, which lists the proposed rates, and “Each Site’s database can store up to 10 GB,” per its help center.

App builder	Plan you need, checked November 9, 2026	What hosting costs	Builds with
Cursor	Premium, $30 a month, or a legacy paid plan	Not published	A cloud agent, on Cursor’s models or others at API prices
ChatGPT Sites	Plus, $20 a month; Pro from $100	Free through December 31, 2026; then metered above the plan’s allowance	Codex
Lovable	Free; Pro from $25 a month for 100 credits	Credits, after a 20-credit monthly Cloud grant	Lovable’s agent
Replit	Starter, free, for one app that expires after 30 days; Core $20 a month	From your monthly credits, then usage-based	Replit Agent

The other two rows come from Lovable’s plans and credits pages, and from Replit’s pricing and publishing costs, where “All publishing costs are deducted from your monthly credits.”

Cursor makes the most sense for internal tools at a company that already codes in Cursor. Sharing with “specific people, groups, or your entire team” needs no login setup of your own, and team admins “can see every app and secret on the team.” For a public site on the cheapest plan with a known price, ChatGPT Sites and Lovable cost less to start.

How to build and publish one

1. Start a cloud agent. In the desktop app, select Cloud in the dropdown under the agent input, or start one at cursor.com/agents or in Cursor for iOS.
2. Ask for an app, in those words. “Be explicit that you want Cursor to build an app.” Cursor’s examples include “Build an internal app where my team can submit bug reports and track their status” and “Deploy this repo as an app.”
3. Try the preview. Cursor shows a tray with the app; ask the agent for changes until it works.
4. Publish. Pick the URL and let the checks run. If one fails, Cursor lists what to fix; tell the agent to fix it and publish again. “Nothing goes live before you choose to publish.”
5. Choose who sees it: people you invite, your team, or, on individual plans, anyone with the link.

What to check before you share it

Four checks run before every publish and stay on “even when the security review is off”: they block secrets written in app files, block credential files, never publish .env files and never publish source maps. “On top of these, an AI security review reads the app’s files and blocks serious issues before the app goes live.” Team admins can add rules to that review, approve publishes it blocked, “except for malicious code, hardcoded secrets, or exposed credentials,” and unpublish any app.

The checks look for leaked keys, not every mistake. TechRepublic notes that Cursor “hasn’t said whether its automated checks test every application for authorization flaws, such as one signed-in user being able to access another user’s records.” If an app shows people’s own data, sign in as two of them and make sure neither sees the other’s before you share it widely.

On Teams and Enterprise, “Public sharing is disabled by default,” and an admin can also turn Apps off for the team. For a script or Grok Bot to open a private app, give it a Cursor API key in the x-cursor-app-token header; “The key only works as a header.”

If the app is only for you

Not every tool needs hosting. If you’re the only one who’ll use it, any coding agent can build it and run it on your own computer, and Cursor’s local agent, Claude Code and Codex all can. In Enjoy, an agent builds it as one of your tools: it lives in your project, opens with one click on your computer or your phone, and runs on your computer, built by the agent and AI plan you already use. Enjoy doesn’t host tools for other people, though: only your own devices with full access can open one. See pricing.

What Cursor hasn’t said

• What hosting costs, or whether it’s free for now, and what happens to a live app if you drop to Plus or cancel.
• The limits: how many apps a plan can publish, how much traffic they can take, or how big their databases can grow. ChatGPT Sites, by comparison, caps each database at 10 GB.
• Where apps run. The docs say each team gets its own hosting account, but not whose cloud or which regions.
• Your own domain. The docs mention a URL you pick and, in the terms, a subdomain, and nothing about connecting a domain you own.

We’ll update this memo when Cursor publishes a price.