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Amazon Q vs Cursor comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Q
Ranking in AI Code Assistants
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
4.0
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Cursor
Ranking in AI Code Assistants
4th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
AI Software Development (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the AI Code Assistants category, the mindshare of Amazon Q is 6.4%, down from 6.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cursor is 17.2%, down from 30.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Code Assistants Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon Q6.4%
Cursor17.2%
Other76.4%
AI Code Assistants
 

Featured Reviews

Jayesh Patil - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Software Engineer
Connectors and guardrails facilitate question-answer setups effectively
There isn't such an issue we have faced with Amazon Q regarding speed increasing. Syncing and indexing takes a lot of time, and they need to improve upon that. Remaining everything is good for us, and that is also acceptable as we can set it as a nightly job. Once it's done, it takes around one hour max for any number of documents. We were trying to address specific issues and challenges by implementing Amazon Q in our environment because currently, they don't provide any APIs directly. We find it difficult to integrate with our product. The second challenge is while connecting Jira, we need the ACLs to maintain our security, but it doesn't allow us to connect to Jira if our ACLs are on. We need to turn them off to connect to it. Even though we connected with the support team of AWS, they were not able to resolve our issue, so we were disappointed at that moment. As a part of improvement, we don't see any improvement areas for Amazon Q at present. We first need to test that we can integrate it with our product. We need the APIs before we can suggest improvements.
Rusira Sathnindu - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
AI coding has accelerated our feature delivery and has transformed how our team builds services
I have been noticing recently that Cursor introduced their own model, which is pretty limited; it is very fast, but it is not smart. They might have to improve that, along with the agent selection methodology. When you select auto, you expect it to use the best agent possible and think of the money savings, but it does not always work as expected, sometimes providing bad code or code that has bugs. I think the auto mode selection can improve. Another concern is the pricing; we have been paying a lot for Cursor recently, which I feel has increased within the last few months, possibly due to our usage going up. We are paying an amount similar to a developer's salary for Cursor now. I believe all the needed improvements are primarily around the auto agent selection mode and pricing. If they could be more transparent about it, that would be appreciated. We only see the bill at the end of the month, and it is often a high amount, so transparency in the pricing would be very helpful for us as developers.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The insight capability is specifically the best one because if searching for data, it will take some amount of time and can be really complex manually; with Amazon Q, it was able to give me quick insights in a couple of seconds with summarized results, which is something really amazing."
"There is a lot of return on investment from using Amazon Q because the number of developers needed or the number of researchers needed, the number of automation people needed has been drastically reduced."
"The explanation and documentation capabilities are excellent."
"Amazon Q has been very helpful in improving efficiency—when I started with the company, processing an item would take 30-40 minutes; now, within 10 minutes, tasks are completed and it has made the job easier and faster."
"The best feature Amazon Q offers is the code security scan, which actually depicts the threat assessment of the code or whether a particular code snippet can be utilized by attackers to find loopholes."
"Amazon Q is able to understand human language regarding the context and scan through folders to ensure best practices are followed."
"Amazon Q really helps in those types of situations, and when I get stuck, when I don't know what the code is supposed to mean, or if I'm just stuck in a loop and can't go forward, Amazon Q develops and gives me a better solution of all the possibilities and scenarios I could run."
"I particularly appreciate that Amazon Q offers fast and context-aware responses because it understands the development context and provides relevant answers that save time."
"Cursor positively impacts my organization by providing great feasibility and better reliability, enabling faster development processes."
"Previously, tasks that would take weeks or months can now be completed within days because of these AI tools."
 

Cons

"While great for standard tasks, it sometimes struggles with more complex or multi-layered problems in large code bases."
"I discovered that the application logs me out automatically after some time, which becomes problematic as I then lose access to my chat history."
"One most important improvement would be having deeper domain-specific intelligence for Amazon Q."
"If I start with a prompt in one tab and then try to continue in another, it does not retain that context."
"The model is not able to give answers properly with the traffic it is facing, so it needs to be scaled more."
"Sometimes feedback is needed immediately. It takes a bit of time because there is a workload."
"One improvement for Amazon Q is that I use it in Visual Studio, and in Visual Studio, I am not given an option to upload an image in Amazon Q."
"Amazon Q is trained with good data, but it sometimes lags when I want to code for a specific task."
"Sometimes Cursor does get stuck, which should be addressed, though the UI remains very good."
"Another concern is the pricing; we have been paying a lot for Cursor recently, which I feel has increased within the last few months, possibly due to our usage going up."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Computer Software Company
10%
University
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise13
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon Q?
One improvement for Amazon Q is that I use it in Visual Studio, and in Visual Studio, I am not given an option to upload an image in Amazon Q. Also, this is one part of it. The second part is the c...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Q?
My main use case for Amazon Q is that we have access to it in our company, and on a daily basis, we receive a lot of requirements from clients to build websites and probably do all the other work a...
What advice do you have for others considering Amazon Q?
My advice to others looking into using Amazon Q is very simple. Go and take a shot on Amazon Q and build cool applications. If someone has any existing project, go ahead and start analyzing the com...
What needs improvement with Cursor?
Sometimes Cursor does get stuck, which should be addressed, though the UI remains very good. The terminal can get stuck when there are many backend Docker processes running or when I need to check ...
What is your primary use case for Cursor?
I primarily use Cursor primarily to build applications, including front end and back end, as well as React Native apps. When using Cursor for front end and back end systems, I utilize technologies ...
What advice do you have for others considering Cursor?
My advice to others considering Cursor is that it is very good to use. I would recommend a context strategy to help them work effectively with the IDE.
 

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Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Q vs. Cursor and other solutions. Updated: April 2026.
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