Chainguard vs Cursor

Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities

Cursor leads in AI visibility (97 vs 36)

Chainguard

EmergingSecurity

General

Seattle software supply chain security (founded 2021); $892M+ raised, $3.5B valuation (Apr 2025), $40M ARR growing 640% YoY with zero-CVE container images for ANZ Bank/Canva/GitLab competing with Snyk for DevSecOps.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
D36
Category Rank
#398 of 1167
AI Consensus
56%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
37
Perplexity
44
Gemini
44

About

Chainguard is a Seattle, Washington-based software supply chain security company — having raised over $892 million total including a $356 million Series D in April 2025 at a $3.5 billion valuation and an additional $280 million growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund in late 2025 — providing enterprises with hardened open source container images and virtual machine base images rebuilt from source daily with zero known CVEs (common vulnerabilities and exposures), eliminating the vulnerability debt that accumulates in standard open source distributions. Founded in 2021 by CEO Dan Lorenc (9 years at Google securing code and infrastructure), Kim Lewandowski (Google representative on the Open Source Security Foundation Governing Board), Matt Moore (Google, creator of the original "distroless" container image), and Ville Aikas (co-founder of Kubernetes), Chainguard's founding team pioneered the open source supply chain security concepts — sigstore (code signing), SLSA (supply chain levels for software artifacts), and distroless containers — that became CISA and NIST software security standards. The company grew from ~$5 million ARR in 2023 to $40 million ARR by January 2025 (640% year-over-year growth) and projects exceeding $100 million ARR before end of 2026. Chainguard serves 150+ paying enterprise customers including ANZ Bank, Canva, GitLab, HPE, Snap, Wiz, and Anduril.

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Cursor

LeaderDeveloper Tools & Platforms

Agentic IDE

$2.3B raised at $29.3B valuation; $2B+ ARR (Q1 2026); used by 50%+ of Fortune 500. Dominant commercial AI coding tool; built on VSCode fork with native agent mode. Competing with GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, and Lovable in the vibe-coding wave.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
A97
Category Rank
#1 of 1
AI Consensus
74%
Trend
up
Per Platform
ChatGPT
89
Perplexity
99
Gemini
99

About

Cursor is an AI-powered code editor built on Visual Studio Code that integrates advanced language models to provide intelligent code completion, generation, debugging, and refactoring capabilities directly in the development workflow. The company serves software developers seeking to accelerate coding productivity through AI assistance while maintaining full control and understanding of their code. Cursor delivers value through contextual code suggestions that understand entire codebases, natural language commands to modify code, inline AI chat for explaining complex code, and a familiar VS Code interface that requires minimal learning curve for existing developers.

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AI Visibility Head-to-Head

36
Overall Score
97
#398
Category Rank
#1
56
AI Consensus
74
stable
Trend
up
37
ChatGPT
89
44
Perplexity
99
44
Gemini
99
27
Claude
99
33
Grok
96

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