Amp vs. Cursor CLI

Feature	Amp	Cursor CLI

Tagline	The frontier coding agent	Ship code with agents right from your terminal
Website	https://ampcode.com	https://cursor.com/cli
Language	typescript	typescript
Release Date	April 14, 2025	August 7, 2025
Last Updated	May 7, 2026	April 28, 2026
Provider Type	AI Lab	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	deep	deep
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	Yes
Voice Mode	No	Yes
IDE Integration	VS Code	Cursor IDE, Xcode, Android Studio, JetBrains, VSCode, Neovim
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	No	No
Context Window	Model-dependent	Up to 1M tokens
Supported Models	Claude Opus 4.7/4.5, Sonnet, GPT-5.5, GPT-5.3-Codex, Gemini 3.1 Pro / Flash	Composor 2, Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5, Codex 5.3, Gemini 3, Grok
Pricing Model	Usage Based	Freemium
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free daily grant, then usage-based	Free / $20-200/mo
Source Code Availability	Proprietary Software	Proprietary Software
Source Code		N/A
Development State	active	active