How to Make Money with Cursor: Eight Documented Paths

Cursor is a coding editor with a built-in assistant. Nobody pays you for having a Pro plan. People pay for add-ons that make Cursor more useful, for cleanup after a Cursor-built site, or for a product a founder actually shipped with it.

This is not the same as selling tools to AI coders, which counts 83 verified businesses across Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, or how to make money with vibe coding. Below are eight stacks on this site that name Cursor as a buyer, a runtime, or the way the product was built. Every number is copied from the stack, with its proof label. The median verified AI business here makes about $300 a month (study).

1. Sell skills that Cursor can install

Stack: Paid Library of Agent Skills for Claude Code & Cursor

Skillry is a paid library of saved instructions that teach coding agents to build websites and other outputs. Cursor is named as a client. ~$3,918 MRR; $12,037 verified revenue last 30 days (TrustMRR/Stripe, Oct 27, 2026). Verified. Hard, 85% automated.

A nearby product is Design Skills That Help AI Build Better Screens, which plugs design rules into Cursor over MCP. ~$3,426 MRR; $3,424 verified revenue last 30 days (TrustMRR/Polar, Nov 1, 2026). Verified. Medium, 85% automated. Compare them on Skillry vs TypeUI: Skills for AI Coders.

Honest catch: many skills are shared for free. Cursor can add a similar library. The last-30-days figure on Skillry is far above the recurring line, so that month was not only subscriptions.

2. Turn Cursor-built sites into WordPress

Stack: Convert AI-Built Sites to WordPress

WPConvert turns sites built with Lovable, Cursor, v0, Replit and similar tools into WordPress. ~$3,359 MRR; $4,424 verified revenue last 30 days (TrustMRR/Stripe, Oct 23, 2026). Verified. Medium, 50% automated. The low automation is the point: someone still checks each conversion.

Honest catch: this work exists because the first draft is shaky. If the builders get good enough, the cleanup bill shrinks. You still review every site.

3. Scan the apps Cursor users ship

Stack: Security Scanner for Apps Built With AI Coding Tools

Afterprompt checks apps built with Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, v0 and Replit for leaked keys and open data. $49 verified revenue last 30 days, mostly non-recurring (TrustMRR/Stripe, Oct 29, 2026). Verified. Hard, 85% automated.

Honest catch: $49 in a month is a real checked number, and it is a small one. Free scanners exist. The pitch only works if the report is clearer than a weekend script. Two larger scanners for AI-built apps are compared on Two Scanners for AI-Built Apps.

4. A canvas that runs Cursor next to other agents

Stack: Run Claude, Cursor & Codex Agents on One Canvas

CNVS runs Claude, Cursor and Codex in parallel on one canvas, including by voice. $3,383 verified revenue last 30 days, mostly non-recurring (TrustMRR/Stripe, Oct 27, 2026). Verified. Hard, 85% automated.

A smaller desktop canvas on this site is Desktop Canvas to Run Claude Code, Codex & Gemini at ~$354 MRR; $642 verified revenue last 30 days (TrustMRR/Stripe, Oct 27, 2026). Verified. Compare them on CNVS vs Morphy: AI Agent Canvases.

Honest catch: “mostly non-recurring” means you need new buyers. Cursor can ship its own multi-agent layout. Hard means you are maintaining a product against tools that change every week.

5. A search product a founder built with Cursor

Stack: AI Search Over Thousands of Founder Interviews

The tagline says Pat Walls built Starter Story’s interview-search app solo with Cursor in about five months. ~$300K annual recurring revenue (founder-reported, Jan 2026). Operator-Reported. Easy, 85% automated.

Honest catch: that figure is the founder’s, from a podcast, not a payment check. He already had the interview library and the audience. Cursor wrote code. It did not create the archive or the subscribers.

6. Better prompts for people who paste into Cursor

Stack: Turn App Ideas into AI-Ready Build Prompts

Valycode turns a rough app idea into a structured prompt you paste into Cursor, Lovable, Claude or ChatGPT. ~$345 MRR; $323 verified revenue last 30 days (TrustMRR/Stripe, Oct 27, 2026). Verified. Hard, 85% automated.

Honest catch: this sits near the directory median. Free chat already writes a spec. You need a prompt that clearly beats a blank Cursor tab, or people will not renew.

7. A mobile builder whose first version was Cursor

Stack: AI Mobile App Builder in the Browser

The tagline says the first version took about two weeks with Cursor, then grew on Reddit with no audience. ~$17K/mo (founder-reported on Starter Story, Jul 2025). Operator-Reported. Hard, 85% automated.

Honest catch: the dollar figure is the founder’s, from 2025. Building the first version in Cursor is not the same as keeping a builder that compiles other people’s apps. Model bills and support tickets are the business.

8. Local-model option: review agent specs on your Mac

Stack: Mac Markdown App for AI Agent Specs

DotMD is a Mac app for reading the instruction files coding agents follow. You comment on a line, the agent sends a fix, you accept or reject. The stack says to sell to Cursor and Claude Code users. The site marks it local plus a hosted model. TrustMRR ~$50 revenue (early). Verified. Local plus a cloud model, Hard, 70% automated.

Honest catch: fifty dollars is a checked early figure, not a living. Markdown viewers are easy to copy. A local loop still needs the agent on the other end. More local packaging is in how to make money with Ollama.

Bottom line

How to make money with Cursor AI, on this site, is packaging around the editor: skills, cleanup, a scanner, a canvas, or a product a founder actually shipped with it. The payment-checked add-ons here run from $49 in a month to about $3,918 MRR. The large “I built it with Cursor” numbers are operator-reported.

Related: selling tools to AI coders, how to make money with vibe coding, how to make money with Lovable, how to make money with Claude, AI side projects for developers, AI side projects for software engineers.

Every stack in this guide, side by side

This guide links 10 stacks. 8 have payment-verified revenue, 1 is rated Easy to build. The typical stack is about 85% automated, so plan on doing the rest yourself. "MRR" means monthly recurring revenue, what subscribers pay each month. Revenue figures come from each stack's source and date; tap a name for the full breakdown.

Stack	Revenue (as reported)	Startup cost	Difficulty	Automated
Paid Library of Agent Skills for Claude Code & Cursor	~$3,918 MRR; $12,037 verified revenue last 30 days (TrustMRR/Stripe, Oct 27, 2026)	Not disclosed	Hard	85%
Design Skills That Help AI Build Better Screens	~$3,426 MRR; $3,424 verified revenue last 30 days (TrustMRR/Polar, Nov 1, 2026)	Not disclosed	Medium	85%
Convert AI-Built Sites to WordPress	~$3,359 MRR; $4,424 verified revenue last 30 days (TrustMRR/Stripe, Oct 23, 2026)	Not disclosed	Medium	50%
Security Scanner for Apps Built With AI Coding Tools	$49 verified revenue last 30 days, mostly non-recurring (TrustMRR/Stripe, Oct 29, 2026)	Not disclosed	Hard	85%
Run Claude, Cursor & Codex Agents on One Canvas	$3,383 verified revenue last 30 days, mostly non-recurring (TrustMRR/Stripe, Oct 27, 2026)	Not disclosed	Hard	85%
Desktop Canvas to Run Claude Code, Codex & Gemini	~$354 MRR; $642 verified revenue last 30 days (TrustMRR/Stripe, Oct 27, 2026)	Not disclosed	Hard	85%
AI Search Over Thousands of Founder Interviews	~$300K annual recurring revenue (founder-reported, Jan 2026)	Not disclosed	Easy	85%
Turn App Ideas into AI-Ready Build Prompts	~$345 MRR; $323 verified revenue last 30 days (TrustMRR/Stripe, Oct 27, 2026)	Not disclosed	Hard	85%
AI Mobile App Builder in the Browser	~$17K/mo (founder-reported on Starter Story, Jul 2025)	Not disclosed	Hard	85%
Mac Markdown App for AI Agent Specs	TrustMRR ~$50 revenue (early)	Not disclosed	Hard	70%