Cursor is the best AI code editor there is. It's still an editor: you decide the architecture, write the migrations, wire the auth, and ship it yourself. StackMivo generates the complete application and deploys it, then hands you a standard repo to open in Cursor.
>A booking platform with two user roles, Stripe payments, and an admin dashboard.
These tools answer different questions. Cursor answers "help me write this." StackMivo answers "build me this.
The best in-editor AI experience available. Multi-file edits, agent mode, and tab completion that predicts rather than reacts. Genuinely excellent.
Framework-agnostic by design. It has no opinion that a data model wants a migration and access rules alongside it. You supply that judgement on every file.
It stops at the file. No architecture ownership, no deployment, no live URL. You still assemble, wire, test, and ship.
Priced per developer. Hobby is free; Individual is $20/mo, Teams $40/user/mo, with Enterprise adding SAML/OIDC SSO, audit logs, and privacy mode (verified September 2026).
The whole application. Data models, migrations, controllers, UI pages, CRUD, auth flows, REST and GraphQL endpoints and admin panels, generated together.
Convention-correct output. Clean structure, dependency injection, typed properties, automatic code formatting and generated tests. Built to pass code review
Deployed, not just written. One click to your own infrastructure, with migrations and queue workers handled.
A standard repo afterwards. Open it in Cursor and keep going.
Same prompt, different unit of work. One accelerates the developer; the other delivers the application. Most teams want both.
Cursor has the strongest developer loyalty in this entire category, and it earned it. The complaints aren't about quality. They're about scope, and about the fact that an editor can only help with the part of the job that happens in an editor.
Cursor is the right tool for editing code and will stay installed. StackMivo is built for developers, agencies and founders who need the application itself: real data models, migrations, auth and admin panels, deployable to the cloud or your own server in one click. If you're looking for a different editor, Cursor's competition is Copilot, Windsurf, or Zed, not this. If you're looking to stop hand-building the first 80% of every project, keep reading.
| Feature | StackMivo | Cursor |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Starts from (paid) | $5/mo · 30 credits | $20/mo Individual |
| Free tier | 20 credits, 2 projects | Hobby, free |
| Team pricing | Seats included per tier | $40/user/mo |
| Billing unit | Shared credits per build | Per developer seat |
| Category & output | ||
| What it produces | A deployed application | Edits inside your codebase |
| Architecture plan before generation | ✓ Approved by you | — |
| Database schema + migrations | ✓ Generated | You write them |
| Auth flows and policies | ✓ Sanctum, gates, policies | You write them |
| Queues, jobs, scheduled commands | ✓ | You write them |
| REST + GraphQL API generation | ✓ | — |
| Admin panel generation | ✓ Filament-ready | — |
| Pest/PHPUnit tests generated | ✓ | On request, per file |
| Laravel-native conventions | ✓ Enforced | Framework-agnostic |
| In-editor multi-file editing | Browser editor + terminal | ✓ Best-in-class |
| Works on any language | — One stack by design | ✓ |
| Works on large existing codebases | Import + refactor, Pro plan | ✓ Core strength |
| Deployment | ||
| One-click deploy targets | Laravel Cloud, Forge, self-hosted | — |
| Auto migrations, queue restart, instant rollback | ✓ | — |
| Ends at | A live URL | A saved file |
| Team & governance | ||
| Git export | GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket | Works with any repo |
| Role-based access + audit log | Business plan and up | ✓ Enterprise |
| SSO (SAML/OIDC) | Enterprise | ✓ Enterprise |
Be honest about the split here. If you want a different editor, these aren't it: look at GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, or Zed. If you want something that builds the application rather than helping you type it, these are the tools teams evaluate.
| Tool | Primary focus | Start price* | Best for | Common tradeoff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| StackMivo | Production-ready full-stack apps | Free / $5/mo | Founders, agencies and dev teams | One backend stack by design |
| Lovable | Prompt-to-app, React + Supabase | Free tier, credit-based | Non-technical founders, prototypes | Not Laravel; credits expire |
| Bolt.new | In-browser JS full-stack builder | Free / $25/mo | Fast JS/TS prototypes | Node runtime; no PHP path |
| v0 (Vercel) | React UI generation | $30/user/mo | Frontend components | UI only; backend is on you |
| Replit | Cloud IDE + AI agent | Free / $20/mo | Learning, hosted experiments | Generic output, not Laravel-idiomatic |
| Base44 | All-in-one no-code builder | Credit-based | Non-technical internal tools | Limited code ownership |
*Cursor, Replit, v0 and Bolt.new prices verified September 2026. Lovable and Base44 price client-side — check their pricing pages directly.
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A booking platform with two user roles, Stripe payments, and an admin dashboard.
Blade, Livewire, React + Inertia, or Vue + Inertia.
Models, migrations, controllers, auth, and APIs, live-previewed as you go.
Laravel Cloud, Forge, or your own server. Or export to GitHub.
Setup takes under 10 minutes. Most developers generate their first working app in their first session.
Cursor isn't going anywhere and shouldn't. This is about which tool starts the job.
Most of our customers do both: generate the application here, then live in Cursor. The next section is the actual split.
This is what most of our developer customers actually do. There's no migration and nothing to uninstall.
Describe the product, approve the architecture plan and pick your frontend. Models, migrations, auth, APIs and an admin panel come out together.
One click to Laravel Cloud, Forge, You now have a live URL on day one, which is a very different conversation to have with a client than a repo.
Standard code, no proprietary wrappers. Every file is where a developer expects it, so Cursor's codebase context works properly from the first prompt.
The differentiated business logic, the edge cases, the thing the product is really about. That's where an editor earns its subscription, and it's now the only work left.
Ask StackMivo for a new module and it lands with full context of the existing app. Renames cascade across models, controllers, views, and templates.
No, and it isn't meant to be. Cursor is an AI code editor; StackMivo is an app builder. StackMivo generates and deploys the full application, then you open that standard repo in Cursor for day-to-day work. Most of our developer customers run both.
Probably not. If you want a Cursor alternative in the same category, look at GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, or Zed. StackMivo is useful to you if the problem is that you're hand-building the same foundation on every project.
With enough prompting and your own architectural decisions, you can build anything in Cursor. It's an excellent editor. What it won't do is decide your schema, generate the migrations, test data and access rules together, produce an admin panel, or deploy the result. That work stays with you.
Import and refactor of an existing codebase built on our supported stack is available on the Pro plan. For large legacy codebases, Cursor is genuinely the stronger tool. That's its core strength, and we'd rather say so.
Yes. It's standard code with no proprietary runtime. Export it to GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket, open it in any editor, and hand it to any developer.
Cursor is $20/mo for an individual and $40/user/mo for teams, per developer. StackMivo is from $5/mo on shared credit tiers with seats included, and it's buying delivery rather than editing speed. Teams that use both usually find the combined cost is still less than the build time it removes.
It follows proven conventions, is formatted automatically by default and comes with tests generated alongside. It's structured the way a production app should be, and built to pass code review.
Keep your editor. Skip the first two weeks. Start free with 10 credits and see your first app generated and deployed today.