Cursor vs Ultimate.

Cursor and Ultimate. both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Cursor (rank #430) holds a meaningful lead over Ultimate. (rank #996) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (40 vs 19). The gap of 21 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Ultimate. is ahead of Cursor. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Cursor is slightly ahead of Ultimate.. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Cursor is clearly ahead of Ultimate.. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Cursor is clearly ahead of Ultimate.. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Cursor is clearly ahead of Ultimate..

Cursor carries 44,397 GitHub stars across 8 public repos, with 5 repositories active in the last 90 days and 41 external contributors on record. Ultimate. shows 4 stars across 25 public repos, 0 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Cursor's footprint is roughly 11099.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Cursor is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Ultimate. looks better where code quality is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.