Cursor Launches GitHub Rival Origin as Code-Hosting Platform

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AI coding startup Cursor, now officially part of SpaceX, launched Origin this week - a code-hosting platform designed to handle repository storage, collaborative editing, pull requests and codebase browsing, putting it in direct competition with GitHub.

The timing was striking. On the same day Origin went live, GitHub suffered a worldwide outage lasting over six hours, with a nearly 20% error rate reported globally. That incident was not isolated: a recent LeadDev analysis counted 257 GitHub outages over the past year, with reporter Charles Humble describing “a visible exodus of high-profile users.”

Origin is built to work alongside GitHub rather than replace it outright. “Your GitHub repos can sit alongside the ones Cursor hosts,” the company wrote in its blog. “Connect GitHub to Cursor, pick your org, and you’ll see the repos you can sync. Select one and Cursor pulls it in.” Cursor has also said “agent native” features and a broader “app ecosystem” are coming to Origin, without sharing further details. GitHub, founded in 2007 and acquired by Microsoft in 2012, remains the world’s largest code host with around 180 million developers as of last October.

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