8 Best Cursor Cloud Agents Alternatives (2026)

The best alternative to Cursor cloud agents in 2026 is Cloudroom, because it runs Claude Code, Codex and 4 more agents in the cloud on the subscriptions you already pay for, and its free plan includes 100 cloud agents every 30 days. If you only use Claude, Claude Code cloud sessions come with Claude Pro at $20 a month. If you only use ChatGPT, Codex cloud comes with ChatGPT Plus at $20 a month. Devin is the closest match to the old Cursor Pro, and OpenHands fits companies that need agents inside their own network. I have used Cursor cloud agents, Claude Code cloud and Codex cloud. I work at Cloudroom, so weigh that as you read.

TL;DR

• Best overall: Cloudroom, fully open source, with a free plan and your own Claude and ChatGPT subscriptions.
• Best for Claude-only users: Claude Code cloud sessions, in Claude Pro at $20/mo.
• Best for ChatGPT-only users: Codex cloud, in ChatGPT Plus at $20/mo.
• Closest to the old Cursor Pro: Devin, Pro at $20/mo with models from 4 labs.
• Best for enterprise self-hosting: OpenHands, in your own VPC.
• Best if your company already pays for Copilot: GitHub Copilot cloud agent, Pro at $10/mo.
• Best free Gemini option: Jules, 15 tasks a day.
• Also worth a look: Factory, Pro at $20/mo.

What changed with Cursor cloud agents?

On Cursor's new plans, cloud agents need Premium at $30 a month, and Claude and GPT models cost extra on top of it. SpaceX completed its $60 billion purchase of Cursor's parent company, Anysphere, on August 14, 2026. On October 12, it bundled Cursor with Grok and X Premium into one plan called The X Subscription.

Cursor's pricing page now lists 5 tiers: Free, Plus at $8, Premium at $30, Super at $100 and Ultra at $200 a month. Plus runs only Grok models. The included usage covers Grok models, and it refreshes weekly. Third-party models such as Claude and GPT are "billed separately at API list prices, through top-ups".

If you pay for a Cursor plan today, you can keep it for now. A Cursor staff member wrote in the announcement thread that users who do not switch "will, sometime in the future, be migrated with advance notice", and that "there isn't a one-to-one replacement for Pro+".

OpenAI is leaving as well. On August 28, 2026, it announced that it will stop supplying its models to Cursor, with a proposed shutoff on November 12, 2026, and that it will not provide future models. So the newest OpenAI model in Cursor is GPT-5.6.

So Cursor's new plans center on Grok, the model of its new owner. To me, that goes against what Cursor was: an editor with the best models from every lab. On the Vals Index, Grok 4.7 scores 54.95% and Claude Haiku 5.5 scores 54.44%. On Cursor's own price list, Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, against $2 and $6 for Grok 4.7. Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores 67.04% and beats Grok 4.7 on 20 of 22 shared Vals benchmarks. Artificial Analysis ranks Grok 4.7, in its own Grok Build agent, 4th on its coding agent index, so Grok is a capable model.

One Cursor user put it this way in the same thread: "Grok is not great yet at solving super complex things. Claude code here I come."

How do the alternatives differ?

The alternatives split into 3 kinds, so pick the kind first.

1. One company's cloud, on a plan you may already pay for. Claude Code cloud sessions run on your Claude plan, and Codex cloud runs on your ChatGPT plan. Each runs only its own company's agent and models.
2. Hosted agents with their own plans. Devin, GitHub Copilot, Jules and Factory sell their own agent and bill their own usage.
3. Open-source platforms that run other agents. Cloudroom runs Claude Code, Codex and 4 more agents on your own subscriptions, and its app and core are open source under Apache 2.0. OpenHands is MIT-licensed, runs its own agent with your API key, and can also run Claude Code, Codex or Gemini CLI.

Cursor used to sit between kinds 1 and 3, with one agent and models from every lab. Since October 12 it is closer to kind 1, because only Grok models are included.

Cursor cloud agents alternatives compared

Last checked October 13, 2026, on each vendor's own pricing page or docs.

1. Cloudroom: best overall

Best for: Cursor users who want Claude and OpenAI models in the cloud again, on the subscriptions they already pay for.

Cloudroom is a desktop app for coding agents on macOS and Linux. Local threads run 9 agents on your computer, Cursor's included. Cloud threads run Claude Code, Codex, Pi Agent, OpenCode, fx and Hermes, each in its own Linux sandbox with its own Git branch. Each agent signs in with your own account and calls its model provider directly, and Cloudroom never bills you for tokens.

It ranks first for Cursor users because it gives back the model choice that Cursor had. Claude Code brings Claude models, Codex brings OpenAI models, and Pi Agent works with many providers. You pick the agent and the model for each thread, in one app. Cloudroom is fully open source. The desktop app and the core are both Apache 2.0, so you can read them, fork them, and run the core on your own Linux server.

You start a cloud agent from the app or from the CLI:

room-cli thread spawn --project PROJECT --machine cloud --provider claude-code \
  --model claude-sonnet-5-5 --request-id invoices-01 \
  --prompt "Move invoice PDF generation into a background job and open one PR."
room-cli thread tell THREAD_ID "Also add a test for invoices over 100 pages."

A sandbox sleeps after 5 idle minutes on the free plan, and never while the agent works. Your next message wakes it with its files and history. Teleport moves a Claude Code, Codex, Pi Agent or OpenCode thread between your Mac and the cloud. Cloud threads also have a terminal, a browser and a virtual screen for computer use. When the work is done, the agent opens a pull request from its branch.

The free plan includes 100 cloud agents and 25 hours of cloud compute every 30 days, plus unlimited local agents. Pro costs $50 a month for 1,000 cloud agents and 100 hours. You can share any thread as a read-only link. The one honest con is that several people cannot work inside the same thread today.

2. Claude Code cloud sessions: best for Claude-only users

Best for: developers who only use Claude and already pay for Claude Pro or Max.

Claude Code cloud sessions run Claude Code on an Anthropic VM, so the work keeps going after you close the laptop. They left research preview on September 23, 2026, and you start them from the web, the desktop app or the CLI. They count toward your plan's usage limits "alongside the rest of your Claude and Claude Code usage", with no separate charge for the cloud VM, so parallel tasks use up your limits faster.

Cloud sessions clone and push only through GitHub. Repos on GitLab or Bitbucket can be sent in, but changes cannot be pushed back. Your user-level CLAUDE.md, skills and MCP servers stay on your machine unless you commit them to the repo.

3. Codex cloud: best for ChatGPT-only users

Best for: developers who only use OpenAI models and already pay for ChatGPT.

Codex cloud runs each task in its own workspace that "can keep working while your computer is asleep". ChatGPT Plus includes Codex on the web, in the CLI, in the IDE extension and on iOS, plus a Slack integration and automatic code review. Plus covers GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, with limited GPT-6 Astra usage. Local messages and cloud chats share one allowance, and OpenAI says "cloud tasks may use more of your allowance than local messages". An API key alone does not unlock the cloud features.

4. Devin: closest to the old Cursor Pro

Best for: Cursor users who want one $20 plan with models from several labs, without a separate Claude or ChatGPT subscription.

Devin Pro costs $20 a month and includes Devin Cloud, its hosted agent. Pro includes models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and SpaceXAI plus open models, and extra usage is billed at API prices. Max costs $200 a month. Teams cost $80 a month plus $40 per developer seat, for up to 200 users. An idle session sleeps after 30 minutes and uses no quota while it sleeps. The /handoff command sends a task from the Devin CLI to a cloud session and brings the pull request back to your machine.

5. OpenHands: best for enterprise self-hosting

Best for: companies that need coding agents inside their own VPC, with SSO and support.

OpenHands is an MIT-licensed coding agent that you can run locally, in OpenHands Cloud, or in your own VPC. The individual cloud plan is free. You bring your own API key or use OpenHands' models "at cost, with no markup", and it includes Jira and Slack integrations. Through ACP (the Agent Client Protocol, a standard way for an app to drive a coding agent), OpenHands can also run Claude Code, Codex or Gemini CLI. The Enterprise plan adds self-hosting in your VPC and SSO.

Other alternatives worth knowing

GitHub Copilot cloud agent works on issues you assign to Copilot and runs in GitHub Actions. It comes with Copilot Pro at $10 a month, which includes $15 of GitHub AI Credits. Each session stops after 59 minutes, and each task gets one branch and one pull request. Pro+ at $39 a month can also hand tasks to Claude and Codex agents, in preview.

Jules is Google's coding agent on Gemini models. The free tier allows 15 tasks a day and 3 at once. Google AI Pro raises that to 100 tasks a day and 15 at once, but paid Jules plans work only with @gmail.com accounts.

Factory sells Droids, its own coding agents. Its Pro plan costs $20 a month and includes cloud and local background agents, plus managed "Droid Computers" for remote runs. Max costs $200 a month for about 10 times Pro's usage.

What do you lose when you leave Cursor cloud agents?

No alternative matches every Cursor cloud agent feature, so check these 5 before you move.

• Where you start agents. Cursor starts cloud agents from Slack, Linear, GitHub and Bitbucket comments, its iOS app, the web and an API. Codex cloud has Slack, and OpenHands has Slack and Jira. Cloudroom has no Slack or Linear trigger.
• Repo hosts. Cursor works with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps. Claude Code cloud and Copilot push only to GitHub.
• Computer use. Cursor cloud agents control a desktop, record videos of their work, and let you take over the remote desktop. Cloudroom cloud threads have a virtual screen for computer use, but you cannot take it over.
• Setup files. Your .cursor/environment.json and .cursor/hooks.json do not carry over. Each alternative has its own setup.
• Polish. Cursor's app is polished, and Cursor is an established product.

Which one fits you?

• If Grok models are enough for your work, stay on Cursor, because Premium at $30 includes cloud agents.
• If you only use Claude, use Claude Code cloud sessions.
• If you only use ChatGPT, use Codex cloud.
• If you want one $20 plan with models from several labs, the way Cursor Pro used to work, use Devin.
• If your company needs agents inside its own VPC with SSO, use OpenHands.
• If your company already pays for GitHub Copilot, use its cloud agent, because it needs no new vendor.
• If you want free Gemini tasks, use Jules.
• If you want Claude Code and Codex side by side in the cloud, on your own subscriptions and in an open-source app, use Cloudroom.

The short version

Cloudroom is my pick for best overall, because it is open source and runs Claude Code, Codex and 4 more agents in the cloud on your own subscriptions. If you use only one lab, Claude Code cloud or Codex cloud is the simplest move. Cursor still has the most ways to start an agent and the most repo hosts. I work at Cloudroom, so weigh that as you read.

You can create a free Cloudroom account, read cloud coding agents compared, or see the best apps for running multiple Claude Code and Codex agents.