Ante vs. Cursor CLI

Feature	Ante	Cursor CLI

Tagline	Self-contained Rust agent harness with native offline inference	Ship code with agents right from your terminal
Website	https://ante.run/	https://cursor.com/cli
Language	rust	typescript
Release Date	December 23, 2025	August 7, 2025
Last Updated	September 4, 2026	June 29, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	basic	deep
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	No	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	Yes
Voice Mode	No	Yes
IDE Integration	None shipped; `ante serve` exposes a JSONL protocol for editor plugins	Cursor IDE, Xcode, Android Studio, JetBrains, VSCode, Neovim
Hooks / Extensions	No	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	No
Context Window	Model-dependent	Up to 1M tokens
Terminal Bench 2.0	#24 · 69.4% ±2.1 ¹
Supported Models	17 built-in presets: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini and Vertex, xAI Grok, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Zai, Ali Coding Plan, Antix, plus any OpenAI-compatible endpoint via ~/.ante/catalog.json and any local GGUF model through the bundled llama.cpp	Composor 2.5, Claude Fable 5, Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, Codex 5.3, Gemini 3.5, Grok 4.20
Supported Subscriptions	Claude Code ChatGPT	—
Pricing Model	Free, BYOK	Freemium
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (alpha preview)	Free / $20-200/mo
Source Code Availability	Proprietary Software	Proprietary Software
Source Code	https://github.com/AntigmaLabs/ante	N/A
Development State	active	active