Cursor (Anysphere)
AI coding IDE that became fastest-growing app to $500M ARR
Anysphere's Cursor reached a reported ~$500M+ ARR in 2025, among the fastest software companies ever to that milestone, and raised at a ~$10B+ valuation. It demonstrated that a thin application on top of frontier models could capture enormous revenue and consume huge inference volumes. Coding is the first vertical where AI reached durable product-market fit and pricing power.
ARR
~$500M+ (2025)
How it fits the stack
Cursor (Anysphere) with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.
Cursor (Anysphere) in the AI stack. Cursor (Anysphere) with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.
Graph data (text) — 5 entities, 4 relationships
- Cursor (Anysphere) —depends on→ Anthropic
- Cursor (Anysphere) —uses→ Claude (Opus / Sonnet)
- Cursor (Anysphere) —depends on→ Inference economics / token deflation
- Cursor (Anysphere) —uses→ Model Context Protocol (MCP)
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