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VS Code fork with a real codebase index, background cloud agents and a CLI.

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Overall in coding agents
7of 17 · score 75.6
Data coverage
88%
23 of 26 fields sourced

Best for

  • •Large monorepos where agentic grep runs out of context before it finds anything
  • •Teams who want to review agentic diffs in an editor rather than a terminal
  • •Shops wanting background PR-opening agents without wiring up CI

Strong on

  • +Permissions allowlist + OS sandbox 1/17
  • +Opens PRs Yes 1/16
  • +Background agents Yes 1/16
  • +Where it stops 4 1/15
  • +Surface standalone editor, CLI, web, cloud delegate 2/17
  • +Repo indexing embeddings index 3/16

Weak on

  • −Licence proprietary 11/16
    Better: Codex CLI: Apache-2.0
  • −Local models No 12/17
    Better: Codex CLI: Yes
  • −Entry price $20/seat/mo 13/16
    Better: Gemini CLI: $0/seat/mo
  • −BYOK Partial 14/17
    Better: Claude Code: Yes

vs GitHub Copilot (Agent HQ)

  • •Ahead on Plan mode: Yes vs Partial
  • •Ahead on Checkpoint & undo: Yes vs Partial
  • •Behind on Local models: No vs Partial
  • •Behind on Repo indexing: embeddings index vs hybrid index + agentic

How Cursor scores among 17 coding agents23 of 26 fields known

Features8

Surface2nd
standalone editor, CLI, web, cloud delegate
2/17
Leader: GitHub Copilot (Agent HQ) · GitHub-native, IDE extension, CLI, web, cloud delegate
docs.cursor.com · 2026-01-15
Default model
Cursor's in-house Composer model, with frontier models selectable
Model breadth
multi-vendor
9/17
Leader: opencode · any provider / router
· 2026-01-15
Repo indexing3rd
embeddings index
3/16
Leader: Devin · hybrid index + agentic
docs.cursor.com · 2026-01-15
Plan mode1st
Yes
1/17
Checkpoint & undo1st
Yes
1/16
· 2026-01-15
Headless / CI1st
Yes
1/17
Local models
No
12/17
Leader: Codex CLI · Yes

Agentic7

Where it stops1st
4
1/15
MCP1st
Yes
1/17
· 2026-01-15
Subagents
Partial
8/16
Leader: Claude Code · Yes
Hooks1st
Yes
1/14
Skills / commands1st
Yes
1/17
· 2026-01-15
Background agents1st
Yes
1/16
· 2026-01-15
Opens PRs1st
Yes
1/16
· 2026-01-15

Governance & control3

Permissions1st
allowlist + OS sandbox
1/17
BYOK
Partial
14/17
Leader: Claude Code · Yes
Licence
proprietary
11/16
Leader: Codex CLI · Apache-2.0
· 2026-01-15

Pricing3

Pricing model
subscription + token overage
9/16
Leader: opencode · BYOK tokens only
cursor.com · 2026-01-15
Entry price
$20/seat/mo
13/16
Leader: Gemini CLI · $0/seat/mo
cursor.com · 2026-01-15
Token markup3rd
Partial
3/16
Leader: Windsurf · Yes

Traction3

GitHub stars
—
· 2026-11-07
Terminal-Bench
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· 2026-11-07
Bench model
—
· 2026-11-07

Positioning1

Positioning
The AI code editor, built to make you extraordinarily productive.
cursor.com

Timeline1

First release
2023-03-01

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