Every AI tool, scored on the hours it hands back.

Cursor 3's Agents Window runs parallel agents across worktrees and the cloud — the most polished agentic editor there is. June's Teams repricing is the catch.

Terminal-native, with the deepest reasoning ceiling on the board. Ships multi-file work unattended — and over-edits fastest when the brief is loose.

Still the quiet value of the category: ten dollars, three hundred premium requests, Opus-class models underneath. Out-reasoned on the big refactors, unbeaten on price.

Deep Research now ships the deliverable, not just the answer — slides, sheets and dashboards from one prompt. It still invents the odd citation on the deep cuts.

Postgres, auth and storage in an afternoon, not a sprint. The free tier is generous; egress and add-ons climb the moment you scale.