On 5 November 2026 Cursor added Build Live Apps to its changelog. You start a cloud agent, tell it explicitly that you want to build an app, and Cursor scaffolds the web app, sets up a Postgres database if needed, puts sign-in behind Cursor SSO, provisions hosting and gives you a live link. Cursor's docs say the feature is "not supported locally": it works only from a cloud agent.
Where the code comes from: new projects get a repository on Cursor Origin, or you can deploy an existing GitHub repository; GitLab and other Git providers are "coming soon". Each app runs in a dedicated hosting account isolated from other customers. When an app needs an outside system, Cursor asks for the secrets and, according to its docs, the agent does not see their values.
Checks before going live: "Nothing goes live until the checks pass and you explicitly publish the app," Cursor says. Fixed checks block publishing when secrets or credential files are found in the app's files (.env files are excluded and source maps are removed), and an AI security review runs as well. Team admins can see every app and secret, add review rules, approve a blocked publish (except for malicious code, hard-coded secrets and exposed credentials) and unpublish any app. Apps can be private, team-only or public; public sharing is available on individual plans and is off by default on Teams and Enterprise.
Who gets it and what it costs: Cursor says it is available on all paid plans with cloud agents enabled. On individual plans, cloud agents start with the $30-a-month Premium plan; the $8 Plus plan does not include them, according to the DEV Community review. As of 6 November, neither the changelog, the Apps docs nor the pricing page listed a hosting price, an app quota or usage limits, and backups, regions and how to export the database are not described. The terms say hosting is provided "as is" and apps can be suspended or removed.
