If you are a developer you are familiar with GitHub which is the platform where you can store your codes and share it with your team for review and working together it is helpful in many ways, and it has been the only place for developers to store their codes.
Now Cursor has introduced a new hosting platform named Origin where we can store and manage code online very similar to GitHub and it is connected with Cursor’s hosting ecosystem. Origin began rolling out in beta on August 17, 2026 — the same day GitHub suffered a global outage lasting nearly six and a half hours, with error rates hitting close to 20% on pull requests, issues, and the API. The timing sparked plenty of jokes online, though most reports note product launches like this are usually locked in weeks ahead, so it was likely a coincidence rather than a calculated jab at GitHub.
It’s also worth knowing who’s behind Origin now. Cursor, formerly known as Anysphere, was acquired by SpaceX in a reported $60 billion all-stock deal that closed just days before Origin’s launch. That means paid Cursor users hosting code on Origin are now doing so on infrastructure owned by SpaceX — a detail that matters if you care about who has access to your code.
We cannot say Origin is a full alternative to GitHub but Origin lets you host repos, browse codes, open pull requests, and sync with GitHub. On the feature side, Origin includes a dedicated “Codebase” tab in the Cursor desktop app, a CLI for cloning and pushing repos, full pull request support (diffs, comments, and merging), and code browsing and search. At launch, it also ships with integrations for Vercel, Depot, and Buildkite for previews and CI, alongside compatibility with existing GitHub Actions workflows.
Currently, Origin has been available only to paid users as part of the beta version.
