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Claude Code
Cursor
Feature
Claude Code
Cursor
Type●
CLI (Agentic)
IDE (VS Code Fork)
Pricing●
Pro $20/mo, Max $100/$200/mo
Free + Pro $20/mo, Ultra $200/mo
Free Tier●
✗No
✓Yes (2,000 completions/mo)
Primary Model●
claude-sonnet-4-6
Composer-1 (default) + Claude / GPT-5 / Gemini 3.1
Context Window●
1M tokens (Sonnet 4.6 / Opus 4.7)
Model-dependent (up to 1M)
IDE Support●
Terminal, VS Code, JetBrains, Desktop, Web, iOS, Slack
Cursor IDE only
Open Source
✗No
✗No
Agentic Mode●
✓Yes (default mode)
✓Yes (Composer + Background Agents)
MCP Support
✓Yes
✓Yes
Multi-Model●
✗No (Claude models only)
✓Yes (Composer-1, Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.7, GPT-5, Gemini 3.1 Pro)
Inline Completions●
✗No
✓Yes (Tab completion)
Platform●
macOS, Linux, Windows (WSL)
macOS, Windows, Linux
SWE-bench Verified●
82%
73.5%
HumanEval●
94%
91%
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