What is Cursor Router?
Picks a coding model per request in Cost, Balance or Intelligence mode, inside Cursor.
Who is Cursor Router best for?
Cursor Router is best for teams on Cursor's Teams or Enterprise plans who want to spend less on models without picking each one.
Teams with a growing model bill
Routine requests go to cheaper models and hard ones to frontier models; in early access, three large accounts saved 30% to 50% on routed requests compared with sending everything to Opus 4.8.
Developers who would rather not pick models
You select Auto, choose Cost, Balance or Intelligence, and the router decides which model handles each request.
Admins who set model policy
Admins can switch it on per team or group, limit which modes people can use, set the default mode and block specific models.
Agents built on the Cursor SDK
The same router is available in the SDK as the auto-smart model, with a setting for cost, balanced or intelligence.
How much does Cursor Router cost?
Cursor Router comes with Cursor's Teams plan, at $40 per user a month for a Standard seat or $120 for a Premium seat, and each routed request is billed at the list price of the model it goes to.
- Cursor Router on by default in Auto
- Central billing, usage analytics and SAML/OIDC SSO
- Cloud agents and automations with shared team context
- 5x the Standard limits on Agent
- Higher Grok Bot usage limits
- Everything in Standard
Billed yearly, Standard is $32 and Premium $96 per user a month. Enterprise is priced through sales and adds pooled usage, invoice billing, SCIM and model access controls; there an admin has to switch the router on. The router is not part of the free Hobby plan or the Pro, Pro+ and Ultra plans. Every Auto request is billed at the list price of the model it is routed to, and requests that land on third-party models also carry Cursor's token rate of $0.25 per million tokens. Balance and Intelligence modes use up included usage faster than Cost mode. Prices exclude tax. Full pricing on cursor.com. We checked these prices on .
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Questions about Cursor Router
What is Cursor Router?
Picks a coding model per request in Cost, Balance or Intelligence mode, inside Cursor.
Who is Cursor Router for?
Cursor Router is best for teams on Cursor's Teams or Enterprise plans who want to spend less on models without picking each one.
Is Cursor Router free?
No. Cursor Router only runs on Cursor's Teams and Enterprise plans, so the cheapest way to get it is a Teams Standard seat at $40 per user a month. Cursor's free Hobby plan and its individual Pro, Pro+ and Ultra plans do not include it.
Does Cursor Router cost extra on top of the Teams plan?
Cursor lists no separate fee for the router. Each Auto request is billed at the list price of the model it is sent to, drawn from your included usage and then on-demand usage, and third-party models add Cursor's token rate of $0.25 per million tokens.
What are the best Cursor Router alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are Pareto Code Router.
Where can I try Cursor Router?
On its official website, cursor.com.
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