Run Cursor with a Local Model: Privacy-First AI Coding Without a Subscription

A guide shows how to use Cursor or VS Code with local AI models instead of cloud APIs.

It centers on an OpenAI-compatible server like Ollama and a code model such as Qwen 2.5 Coder 14B.

Cursor offers only limited custom-model support, while Continue.dev provides deeper local-model integration.

The approach keeps code private, works offline, and avoids per-token AI costs, with tradeoffs in hardware and inference speed.