Kimi Allegretto costs $39/mo; Cursor Pro costs $20/mo. Kimi's higher price does not buy comfortable headroom because its shared credits drain too quickly.
Cursor Pro vs Kimi Allegretto: choose Cursor Pro. Measured on Cursor Pro, one pass of our fixed task set fits about 220 tasks a week with Composer 2.5. Kimi Allegretto costs $39/mo; Cursor Pro costs $20/mo. Prices are the providers' own list prices, and the verdict is ours rather than a score.Measured
Our verdict
Choose Cursor Pro. It includes the IDE and lets you move between models when one is wrong for the job.
Kimi has strong visual instincts, but its limits drain too quickly. Allegretto costs more and still isn't worth recommending.
Cursor Pro lets you switch between providers. Its agent runs inside the editor, which suits people who still read and edit the code themselves. Composer 2.5 is not capable enough for serious work. OpenAI plans to leave Cursor on November 12, 2026, which will narrow the model choice.
Pros
Agent built into the IDE
Models from several providers
Cons
Composer 2.5 is weak
OpenAI plans to leave Cursor on November 12, 2026
Best for People who still read their code and want to switch between models.
How far it goes: about 50 times a month
Our whole real-world issues and spec planning pass runs about 50 times a month on this plan.
That works out at about 41c of the subscription per run, at the list price.
Measured on this plan, at 2.0%/1m of its allowance per run. A share belongs to the plan it was measured on, so we never subtract one plan's from another's.
Allegretto gives K3 more credits and parallel agents. The shared limit still runs out before ordinary work is done. K3 has also regressed in our use since release. We do not recommend it.
Pros
Good visual design
Long context
Parallel agent tools
Cons
The limit drains too quickly
K3 has gone backwards in our use
Best for Nobody.
How far it goes: we have not measured this plan
The K3 subject sat out the latest weekly grading run, so there is no current scorecard; see the leaderboard for graded alternatives.
Verdicts and prices are the quiz's versioned editorial catalog, last reviewed 2026-10-01. The plan cards keep measured evidence separate from the recommendation. Any other pair composes on the subscription comparison, and the quiz turns your answers into a recommendation.