Cline CLI vs. Cursor CLI

Feature	Cline CLI	Cursor CLI

Tagline	Autonomous coding agent right in your terminal	Ship code with agents right from your terminal
Website	https://cline.bot	https://cursor.com/cli
Language	typescript	typescript
Release Date	October 2, 2025	August 7, 2025
Last Updated	June 29, 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	Yes	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	Yes
Voice Mode	Yes	Yes
IDE Integration	VS Code, JetBrains, Zed, Neovim, Emacs	Cursor IDE, Xcode, Android Studio, JetBrains, VSCode, Neovim
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	No
Context Window	Model-dependent (up to 1M)	Up to 1M tokens
Supported Models	AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Mistral, DeepSeek, Meta, Azure, Cerebras, 30+ providers	Composor 2.5, Claude Fable 5, Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, Codex 5.3, Gemini 3.5, Grok 4.20
Supported Subscriptions	ChatGPT Claude Code	—
Pricing Model	Freemium	Freemium
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (BYOK) / $20/mo per user	Free / $20-200/mo
Source Code Availability	Open Source (Apache-2.0)	Proprietary Software
Source Code	https://github.com/cline/cline	N/A
Development State	active	active