Cursor vs Codex for teams: which should builders use?
A buying guide for engineering teams: per-seat prices, what each seat includes, usage limits, admin controls (SSO, SCIM, privacy, analytics, spend limits), where each tool runs and PR code review, comparing Cursor Teams with OpenAI Codex as it comes in ChatGPT Business and Enterprise.
 Cursor |  OpenAI Codex | |
|---|---|---|
| Team plans | Teams (self-serve, priced per seat) and Enterprise (custom, contact sales) | Codex comes with ChatGPT Business (self-serve, 2 to 200 seats) and ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu (contact sales). For CI you can also run Codex on an API key at API rates |
| Seat prices (monthly vs annual) | Premium $30, Super $100 or Ultra $200 per user/mo, plus Free $0 seats for members who bring their own plan. cursor.com/pricing lists monthly prices only; no annual discount is published | Standard seat $25/user/mo billed monthly or $20 billed annually. Premium seat $125/user/mo monthly or $100 annually. 2-seat minimum, mix seat types freely. Enterprise: custom pricing (credit-based or token-based) |
| What a seat includes | The Cursor editor, agent, CLI, cloud agents and automations, and Bugbot, with a weekly usage pool for Cursor's own models (Grok 4.7, 4.6, 4.5 and Composer 2.5). Super is 3.75x Premium usage, Ultra 12.5x | ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work and Codex: CLI, IDE extension, ChatGPT desktop app, Codex cloud, GitHub code review, Slack and Linear. Premium seats get 5x Standard usage and no 5-hour limit |
| Models | Cursor models are included in the seat. Third-party models (GPT, Claude, Gemini) bill at public API list price plus the Cursor Token Rate ($0.25 per million tokens), from the team's prepaid balance from the first request | OpenAI models only, included in the seat: GPT-6.1 Sol (OpenAI's pick for complex work), GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna |
| Is usage pooled? | Not on Teams: each paid seat has its own weekly pool, and usage doesn't transfer between members. Pooled usage is an Enterprise feature | Not on Business: each seat has its own allowance (a 5-hour window plus weekly limits; Premium has no 5-hour limit). Optional workspace credits are pooled across the workspace. Enterprise flexible pricing uses one shared credit pool with no fixed per-seat caps |
| When someone hits the limit | Work continues on the team's shared prepaid balance (one-time top-ups or Auto Top-up), billed at token rates | Business: if the workspace has bought credits, work continues from the shared pool; if not, the feature is blocked until an owner adds credits (auto recharge available). Credits are valid for 12 months. Anyone can also run extra local chats on an API key |
| Spend controls | One monthly additional-usage limit for the team, a default per-member limit and per-member overrides. Enterprise adds group-level spend limits and granular spend controls | Business: credit usage alerts, budgeting and spend controls in Workspace settings > Billing. Enterprise: overage limits (0 blocks credit use once the committed pool runs out) and spend controls by group through RBAC |
| SSO and provisioning | SAML 2.0 / OIDC SSO on Teams at no extra cost, with domain verification and auto-enroll on SSO sign-in. SCIM is Enterprise-only | SAML SSO and MFA on Business. SCIM, Enterprise Key Management and role-based access control with custom roles are Enterprise |
| Privacy and data | Privacy Mode (no training on your code by Cursor or model providers) can be enforced team-wide on Teams, plus custom Chat data retention. Cloud agents store encrypted repo copies only while they run. Privacy Mode is on by default for Enterprise | No training on your business data by default on Business and Enterprise. Enterprise adds custom retention policies and data residency in ten regions |
| Analytics and audit | Teams: web dashboard with AI share of committed code, a usage leaderboard and CSV export. The analytics API and audit logs are Enterprise | Business: basic user analytics. The Codex analytics dashboard, Analytics API, and Compliance API with audit logs are listed for Enterprise |
| Where it runs | Cursor's desktop editor, the Cursor CLI in any terminal (also headless in scripts and CI), and cloud agents in isolated VMs, started from the editor, web, iOS, Slack, GitHub, Linear or the API | Codex CLI (open source, Apache-2.0), the IDE extension for VS Code, Cursor and Windsurf (Xcode and JetBrains have their own integrations), the ChatGPT desktop app, and Codex cloud on web, mobile and desktop. codex exec and the SDK cover scripts and CI |
| Cloud agents | Run in parallel in isolated VMs with full dev environments. Repos from GitHub (Cloud and Enterprise Server), GitLab (Cloud and Self-Hosted), Bitbucket Cloud or Azure DevOps | Codex cloud tasks run in hosted environments with setup scripts, secrets and internet access controls, on connected GitHub repos. Business seats get larger VMs for cloud chats. Off by default on Enterprise until an admin turns it on |
| PR code review | Bugbot is included on Teams and billed by usage from the team's prepaid credit. Works with GitHub (including Enterprise Server), GitLab (including Self-Hosted), Bitbucket (including Data Center), Azure DevOps and Origin. Autofix runs on cloud agent credits | Codex code review on GitHub: comment @codex review or turn on automatic reviews. It flags only P0 and P1 issues and follows Code Review Rules in AGENTS.md. Uses your plan's usage, then credits. Security Review is in research preview |
| Integrations | Slack, Linear, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps for agents; MCP servers; an API to start agents | GitHub (@codex on issues and PRs), Slack, Linear, MCP and plugins. ChatGPT Business also connects Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and more |
| Central admin | Centralized billing and team-wide privacy settings on Teams, plus a team marketplace for internal rules, skills and plugins. Enterprise adds auto-run, browser and network controls; repository, model and MCP access controls; audit logs and service accounts | Managed requirements.toml for local runs on every plan. Cloud-managed config policies and Codex access tokens for trusted automation on Business and Enterprise. Separate controls for local Codex, Codex cloud, plugins and API access |
| Billing | Card on self-serve plans; invoice/PO billing is Enterprise-only. Bills per active paid seat, prorated when you add someone mid-cycle | Business: card, monthly or annual; added seats are charged prorated right away, and reductions apply next cycle. Enterprise: invoicing, volume discounts |
| Pricing (approx.) | Free tier; paid plans from $8/mo (Plus) up to $200/mo (Ultra); Teams from $30/user/mo | Limited on ChatGPT Free and Go ($8/mo); Plus $20/mo; Pro from $100/mo; Business from $20/user/mo (annual); or API usage |
| Our rankings | #1 in Vibe coding, #1 in Coding agents, #6 in UI generators, #2 in Indie games | #3 in Coding agents |
What a 10-person team pays
At list prices before tax: 10 Cursor Premium seats are $300/mo, and any GPT, Claude or Gemini usage in Cursor is billed on top at API list price plus $0.25 per million tokens. 10 ChatGPT Business Standard seats are $250/mo billed monthly or $200/mo billed annually, and Codex usage is included up to each seat's limits. A mixed team works on both: 8 Cursor Premium + 2 Super seats is $440/mo, and 8 Business Standard + 2 Premium seats is $450/mo monthly ($360/mo annual). Usage beyond the included limits costs extra on both. For credit-based plans, OpenAI's rate card says Codex averages about $100 to $200 per developer per month, and that varies a lot with model, parallel runs and automations.
How usage limits work for teams
Neither self-serve plan pools included usage. On Cursor Teams, each paid seat gets a weekly pool for Cursor's own models. Everything else, including OpenAI models from the first request, comes from one prepaid team balance that admins top up and cap with a monthly limit. On ChatGPT Business, Codex shares one allowance with ChatGPT Work. Standard seats get the same estimates as Plus (OpenAI says roughly 15 to 160 local messages per 5 hours on GPT-6.1 Sol), weekly limits may apply, and cloud tasks use more than local ones. Premium seats get 5x that with no 5-hour limit. Past the limit, owners can buy workspace credits that everyone draws from.
Can a team run both?
Yes. The Codex IDE extension installs in Cursor, and a ChatGPT Business seat covers it with the same limits as the CLI and Codex cloud. Some teams give everyone Cursor seats for the editor, cloud agents and Bugbot, and add ChatGPT Business seats for people who want GPT models without paying API rates inside Cursor. If you do, pick one bot for PR review so pull requests don't get two sets of comments.
Pick Cursor if…
Your team wants one editor for everyone, with cloud agents and Bugbot that work on GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps, analytics that show the AI share of committed code, and the option to use models from several labs. Budget separately for GPT or Claude use: on Teams those bill at API list price plus the Cursor Token Rate.
Pick OpenAI Codex if…
Your team mostly wants OpenAI models and you'd rather have them inside a flat seat ($20/user/mo billed annually) than pay per token. It also suits teams on GitHub that are terminal- or agent-first, want Codex in whatever editor each developer already uses, or want ChatGPT for non-engineers on the same plan.
Our verdict
For teams that mainly want OpenAI models, ChatGPT Business is the cheaper and simpler buy. Codex comes with every seat from $20/user/mo (annual), along with ChatGPT for the whole company, and the extension also runs inside Cursor. Cursor Teams seats ($30+/user/mo, monthly) include only Cursor's own models and bill GPT at API rates. Pick Cursor for one shared editor, multi-model choice, and cloud agents and Bugbot on any major Git host, since Codex cloud and code review are GitHub-only. On both, SCIM and audit logs are Enterprise-only.
Frequently asked questions
Is Codex included in ChatGPT Business?
Yes. Both Standard ($25/user/mo monthly, $20 annual) and Premium ($125 monthly, $100 annual) seats include ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work and Codex. New Business workspaces can't add the old Codex-only seats (closed to new workspaces since June 24, 2026).
Can my team use GPT models in Cursor Teams?
Yes, but not from the seat's included pool. On Teams, third-party models including GPT bill at public API list price plus Cursor's $0.25 per million token rate, paid from the team's prepaid balance.
Does Codex code review work with GitLab or Bitbucket?
OpenAI's docs cover GitHub only, through @codex review or automatic reviews. Cursor's Bugbot covers GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps.
Which one has SCIM and audit logs?
On both, only the Enterprise plan. Cursor Teams and ChatGPT Business both include SAML SSO.
Is there an annual discount?
ChatGPT Business, yes: $20 instead of $25 per Standard seat, and $100 instead of $125 per Premium seat. Cursor's pricing page lists monthly seat prices only.
Facts and prices checked on vendor pages on Oct 16, 2026: Cursor pricing, Cursor Team Pricing docs, Cursor for Teams: get started, Cursor SSO, Cursor usage analytics, Cursor Enterprise docs, Cursor privacy and data governance, Cursor Cloud Agents, Cursor CLI, Cursor Bugbot, ChatGPT pricing, OpenAI Business pricing, ChatGPT Business FAQ, Flexible pricing (credits) for Business and Enterprise, ChatGPT rate card (Business, Enterprise), Codex pricing, Codex cloud, Codex CLI, Codex IDE extension, Codex code review on GitHub, ChatGPT and Codex in Slack, Codex admin rollout guide, Codex roles and workspace permissions, Codex workspace analytics. Plans and limits change often, so confirm before you buy.