Codebuff vs. Cursor CLI

Feature	Codebuff	Cursor CLI

Tagline	AI coding assistant for your terminal	Ship code with agents right from your terminal
Website	https://codebuff.com	https://cursor.com/cli
Language	typescript	typescript
Release Date	November 4, 2024	August 7, 2025
Last Updated	April 28, 2026	April 28, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	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	None - terminal only	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 tokens
Supported Models	Any supported OpenRouter model	Composor 2, Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5, Codex 5.3, Gemini 3, Grok
Pricing Model	Freemium	Freemium
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free 500 credits/mo / $100-500/mo	Free / $20-200/mo
Source Code Availability	Open Source (Apache-2.0)	Proprietary Software
Source Code	https://github.com/CodebuffAI/codebuff	N/A
Development State	active	active