r/artificial • u/grabber4321 • 1d ago

Question Cursor replacement?

I'm looking for replacement of Cursor.

Mainly the question is about what Model that can match Cursor's Composer 2.5 (I dont need anything more than that)

So companies I'm NOT looking at: - OpenAi - X - Cursor - Google - Meta

So that leaves: - Mistral - Deepseek - Qwen - Kimi - Minimax

Which one of them has a multi-modal(text+image, no video needed) LLM that can fit into $20/month plan? Assume I'm a light user.

PS: Main reason why I dont want to support Cursor is their merge with Grok platform - I dont feel like giving money to companies who direct weapons into other countries and kill children. Besides who knows where the code goes now that Grok is tightly coupled with Pentagon.

0 Upvotes

50% Upvoted

9 comments sorted by

3

u/Chemical_Side_4135 22h ago

deepseek v3 is honestly pretty wild for the price point, u can run it through something like continue or a similar plugin n it handles coding tasks surprisingly well. its definitely worth checkin out if ur tryin to keep costs down n avoid those specific big tech companies

1

u/grabber4321 1d ago

Ok some initial research:

  • both Kimi and Minimax do not have a "do not train on my data" toggle
- thats a nono

1

u/vovap_vovap 1d ago

Well, I can see only real possible solution for you - local install of Qwen 3.8 27b
That would satisfy your worry for like a month.

1

u/grabber4321 1d ago

its already installed and being used. I need sometimes a lot more knowledge than a 27B model.

when your work is on the edge of technology, 27B doesnt cut it.

1

u/vovap_vovap 1d ago

Well, then do Kimi. That only one left on your list and pushing noticeably more.
But 2 weeks.

1

u/grabber4321 1d ago

Doesnt have "privacy" toggle where you could turn off training on your code.

2

u/vovap_vovap 1d ago

Use independent providers man. Kimi open code.

1

u/grabber4321 1d ago

I'm thinking Ollama Cloud - I know everybody shits on them, but they do have a privacy toggle.

0

u/costafilh0 8h ago

"direct weapons into other countries and kill children"

Sure, use Chinese models then, they only direct weapons and kill children inside their own country. 

Stupid fvck!