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Four AI coding surfaces, four pricing tiers, one question for the Indian solo shop: which two do you actually pay for? We ran every tool through real tasks for thirty days and the answer is not the one Twitter keeps yelling about.
Cursor 3 ships an Agents Window that runs parallel AI agents across local machines, worktrees, SSH, and cloud, without interrupting the main editor. The ten-open-tabs workflow is over.
I switched my main editor to Cursor 0.42 with Claude Sonnet 4.6 and ran it for a week. This is the setup I landed on, including the rules file that keeps the agent honest.
Windsurf and Cursor both got serious upgrades in 2026. I used each as my primary IDE for a month. This is the comparison that landed me on the editor I now use full-time.
Cursor 3 (the unified agent workspace) vs GitHub Copilot Workspace. Feature comparison, pricing in INR, when to pick each, and migration tips. An honest take on both.