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Cloudways vs Cursor

Managed cloud hosting across DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Google Cloud
vs. AI-native code editor — VS Code fork with deep AI integration

Cloudways website ↗Cursor website ↗

Pricing tiers

Cloudways

Autonomous — Free Trial
3-day free trial. 1 server, 20 GB disk, 150 GB bandwidth.
Free
Flexible — DO Micro
DigitalOcean-backed. 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB storage, 2 TB bandwidth. Starting tier.
$11/mo
Flexible — DO Medium
4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB, 5 TB bandwidth.
$88/mo
Autonomous — Growth
WordPress-optimized autoscaling. 1 baseline server, 20 GB disk, 150 GB bandwidth.
$100/mo
Autonomous — Scale
2 baseline servers, 50 GB disk, 250 GB bandwidth.
$200/mo
Flexible — DO 8XL
24 vCPU, 128 GB RAM, 2.56 TB storage, 11 TB bandwidth.
$342/mo
Autonomous — Plus
3 baseline servers, 100 GB disk, 1 TB bandwidth.
$400/mo
Enterprise
Custom autoscale, volume pricing.
Custom
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Cursor

Hobby (Free)
Free. Limited Agent requests + Tab completions. No credit card.
Free
Pro
$20/month. Extended Agent limits, frontier models, MCPs + skills + hooks, cloud agents.
$20/mo
Teams
$40/user/month. Shared chats + commands + rules, centralized billing, RBAC, SAML/OIDC SSO.
$40/mo
Pro+ (Recommended)
$60/month. Everything in Pro + 3x usage on OpenAI, Claude, Gemini.
$60/mo
Ultra
$200/month. 20x usage multiplier + priority access to new features.
$200/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Pooled usage, SCIM, AI code tracking API + audit logs, priority support.
Custom
Cursor website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing auto-free-trial on Cloudways vs hobby on Cursor.

MetricCloudwaysCursor
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Cloudways · 17 features

  • Autonomous (WordPress) — Fully managed WordPress with autoscaling.
  • Backups — Automated daily + on-demand. Retention configurable.
  • Bot Protection — Cloudflare Enterprise bot filtering add-on.
  • Bot Scaler — Autonomous: auto-scale based on traffic patterns.
  • Breeze (WP cache plugin) — In-house WordPress caching plugin.
  • CloudwaysCDN — Built-in CDN add-on (StackPath-backed).
  • Flexible Plans — BYO-sized servers on any of 5 providers. Full control over stack.
  • Free Let's Encrypt SSL — 1-click cert install + auto-renewal.
  • Free Migration — 1 free app migration per plan. Cloudways team moves your site.
  • Horizontal Scaling — Auto-scale app servers (Autonomous plans).
  • Malware Protection — Add-on ($4/app/month). Scan + clean.
  • Object Cache Pro — Included on certain plans. Redis-backed object cache for WP.
  • SafeUpdates — Automated WordPress plugin/theme updates with rollback.
  • Staging Environments — 1-click staging clones with push-to-live.
  • Team Collaboration — Invite team members with granular role permissions.
  • Thunderstack (Optimized) — Apache + Nginx + Varnish + Redis + Memcached preconfigured for speed.
  • Vertical Scaling — Resize server specs without migration.

Cursor · 15 features

  • Agent Mode — Autonomous multi-file editing + tool use. Runs terminal commands with confirmati…
  • Background Agents — Run agents in the cloud to tackle longer tasks async.
  • BugBot (PR reviews) — AI reviewer on GitHub PRs.
  • Chat (⌘L) — Conversational chat with codebase context.
  • Cmd-K Inline Edit — Highlight code + ⌘K → natural language edit instruction.
  • Codebase Indexing — Embedding-based semantic search over your codebase.
  • Composer — Multi-file edit sessions with full context.
  • .cursorrules / Project Rules — Custom system prompts per project to steer the AI.
  • MCP Support — Add Model Context Protocol servers to extend agent capabilities.
  • Privacy Mode — Data never used for training; zero-retention routing.
  • Skills & Hooks — User-defined skills library + lifecycle hooks.
  • Tab (multi-line completion) — Predictive completions including next-edit suggestions.
  • Team Shared Context — Share chats, commands, rules across team.
  • VS Code Extension Compat — Most VS Code extensions work via the marketplace.
  • YOLO Mode — Auto-approve all agent actions (for trusted workflows).

Developer interfaces

KindCloudwaysCursor
CLI—Cursor CLI
RESTCloudways API—
MCP—Cursor MCP support
OTHERCloudways Platform (web UI), Server SSH Access, SFTPCursor Desktop App, Cursor Rules (.cursorrules), Privacy Mode
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