AI Agents Now Build and Publish Live Web Apps
Cursor's Build Live Apps moves coding agents from writing code to hosting it, available now on paid plans with cloud agents.
Updated on Nov. 6, 2026 in Artificial Intelligence
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Cursor has introduced Build Live Apps, a feature that generates a web application from a natural-language prompt given to an AI agent, then publishes it to a user-chosen domain. The feature is available on paid Cursor plans that support cloud agents, starting at the $30-per-month Premium plan. It is a shipped product rather than a research preview.
Why it matters
The move extends AI coding agents from writing code into deploying and hosting finished software, handling the database, sign-in and infrastructure steps that normally require separate engineering work. It signals that coding-tool vendors are competing to own the full path from prompt to live application.
The announcement is a product launch rather than a benchmark, and it gives no performance or reliability measurements for generated applications. The verifiable figures are the plan prices, which place the feature behind a paid tier that includes cloud agents, and the team-plan starting price of $30 per user per month.
The players
Cursor
An AI-native code editor whose cloud agents and team plans compete in the emerging market for AI-assisted software development tools.
The details
Users open a cloud agent in Cursor and describe the application they want, and the agent generates a working web app from that request. When an application needs persistent storage, Build Live Apps creates a Postgres database, a widely used open-source relational database. Before publication, Cursor runs deterministic checks alongside AI-based reviews, and when an application needs to reach an outside system, the tool asks the user for credentials.
Timeline
Cursor announced Build Live Apps on November 5, 2026.
The Tech Race
Build Live Apps extends Cursor's cloud-agent product, which is sold in tiers from $30 to $200 per month, into deployment and hosting. The move places Cursor in direct competition with AI tools that aim to take a prompt all the way to a published application.
Build Live Apps is available now on paid Cursor plans that include cloud agents, starting at $30 per month. Users on the $8-per-month Plus plan cannot access the feature because that tier excludes cloud agents.
The takeaway
The trajectory is clear: coding agents are moving from writing code toward owning deployment, databases and access control. Readers can watch whether Cursor publishes data on how many applications pass its pre-publication review and how team administrators use the override and unpublish controls.
Further reading
For broader context on how AI agents are being used to build software, see Artificial Intelligence.
Source note: This article includes information reported by TechRepublic.
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