Codewhale vs. Cursor CLI

Feature	Codewhale	Cursor CLI

Tagline	Community-driven coding agent that runs a different model per role	Ship code with agents right from your terminal
Website	https://codewhale.net/	https://cursor.com/cli
Language	rust	typescript
Release Date	January 19, 2026	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	deep	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	Editors via ACP (registry submission pending)	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	30+ providers: DeepSeek, Claude, GPT, Kimi, GLM, Qwen, Grok, Mistral, Xiaomi MiMo, Alibaba Model Studio, SiliconFlow, OpenCode Zen, Hugging Face; local via vLLM, SGLang, Ollama	Composor 2.5, Claude Fable 5, Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, Codex 5.3, Gemini 3.5, Grok 4.20
Supported Subscriptions	ChatGPT SuperGrok	—
Pricing Model	Free, BYOK	Freemium
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (BYOK)	Free / $20-200/mo
Source Code Availability	Open Source (MIT)	Proprietary Software
Source Code	https://github.com/Hmbown/CodeWhale	N/A
Development State	active	active