Cursor
A code editor that writes and edits code from a plain-language description. For staff automating data work, not for everyday writing.
Careful with sensitive material
Never put this into it
Do not paste a witness's real name, ID number, or exact address into filenames, sample data, comments, or test fixtures inside a project built with Cursor unless Privacy Mode is switched on. With it off, which is the default on Free and Pro accounts, that code and whatever real data is embedded in it may be used to train Cursor's and its model providers' systems.
A safer tool to use instead
Cursor is a code editor that writes the code for you. You describe the change in ordinary language and it edits the files.
It earns its place on repetitive digital work: cleaning a messy spreadsheet, renaming a thousand files, pulling the same three numbers out of a hundred PDFs. It is not a writing or research tool, and the code it produces can run perfectly while doing the wrong thing, so someone has to read it.
It indexes your whole project folder for context, not only the file open on screen. Whatever real data is sitting in that folder travels with your question. OpenCodeOpenCodeSafe for sensitive materialOpen sourceMITHas a free version: OpenCode itself is completely free and open source. Cost, if any, comes only from whichever AI model provider you choose to connect. Free if you connect a local model.View tool pointed at a local model keeps that work on your machine.
What happens to your data
Where this data goes
- Cursor servers and its AI model providers (United States and elsewhere)
Trains on what you type?
By default yes, but there is a setting to opt out.
How long it is kept
Cursor's own Data Use page states: with "Privacy Mode" switched off, "we may use and store codebase data, prompts, editor actions, code snippets, and other code data and actions to improve our AI features and train our models." With Privacy Mode switched on, Cursor states customer data is not used for training and it maintains zero-data-retention agreements with its model providers. Privacy Mode is available on every plan including Free, but is off by default on Free and Pro accounts: a user has to find it in settings and turn it on. Team and Enterprise admins can force it on for everyone.
Account required
- An email address
Getting it, and using it in Iraq
Access in Iraq
- Paid plans typically need a card issued outside Iraq.
Cursor does not publish a country allowlist or blocklist the way OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google do; no report of it being blocked in Iraq was found. As with other paid SaaS tools, organisations in the region report that Iraqi-issued cards are often declined; this is a widely reported pattern, not a documented Cursor policy. The free plan needs no card.
Language quality
No one has published a measurement for this.
Arabic (Modern Standard)
Cursor is a code editor, not a document translation or transcription tool, and it publishes no per-language natural-language accuracy figures for the models it connects to. Untested.
Iraqi Arabic
Not applicable in the same sense as a translation tool, and no benchmark was checked. Untested.
Kurdish (Sorani)
Not applicable in the same sense as a translation tool, and no benchmark was checked. Untested.
Sources
- Data Use & Privacy OverviewCursor
- Cursor PricingCursor
Last checked: 2026-08-31