Continue vs. Cursor CLI

Feature	Continue	Cursor CLI

Tagline	The open-source AI code assistant	Ship code with agents right from your terminal
Website	https://continue.dev	https://cursor.com/cli
Language	typescript	typescript
Release Date	August 21, 2025	August 7, 2025
Last Updated	April 28, 2026	April 28, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	No	Yes
Git Integration	basic	deep
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	No	Yes
Voice Mode	No	Yes
IDE Integration	VS Code, JetBrains IDEs	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	Claude Opus / Sonnet / Haiku, GPT-5 / pro / mini, Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen, Llama, Local models for Ollama	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 (BYOK) / $10/mo	Free / $20-200/mo
Source Code Availability	Open Source (Apache-2.0)	Proprietary Software
Source Code	https://github.com/continuedev/continue	N/A
Development State	active	active