Why people are looking for one
Cursor is a real product. Great people work on it. And it has a pricing problem that's driven a chunk of its community to actively shop around.
The credit model confuses people on purpose. Prompts cost different amounts depending on model, context window, and whatever internal tuning changed that week. Power users routinely watch a month's credits vaporize in a weekend and can't tell you exactly why.
Even fans have stopped defending it. The company apologized publicly in the middle of 2025. Windsurf picked up defectors. “Cursor credits disappear faster than you think” is a meme now, not a hot take.
If that's your experience, this page is for you.
Stop renting your agents. Own the orchestrator instead.
How DevboardAI is shaped differently
Cursor is an IDE-first tool. It replaces your editor with a fork of VS Code that has AI baked in. You stay in the editor, you chat with the AI, you accept suggestions. The AI runs in Cursor's cloud.
DevboardAI is dashboard-first. It sits next to your editor, not inside it. You describe what you want to build, it generates a sprint, and the orchestrator runs every task against your repo on your machine — using the CLI agents you already have installed (Claude Code, Codex, Kimi).
Neither is better in the abstract. They're answering different questions. Cursor answers “how do I code faster?”. DevboardAI answers “how do I ship my backlog while I'm not at my desk?”.