Cursor CLI vs. fx (by Vercel)

Feature	Cursor CLI	fx (by Vercel)

Tagline	Ship code with agents right from your terminal	Tiny, open, embeddable, native coding agent by Vercel.
Website	https://cursor.com/cli	https://fx.sh
Language	typescript	zig
Release Date	August 7, 2025	August 17, 2026
Last Updated	June 29, 2026	August 19, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	No
Git Integration	deep	minimal
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	No
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	Yes
Voice Mode	Yes	No
IDE Integration	Cursor IDE, Xcode, Android Studio, JetBrains, VSCode, Neovim
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	No
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	No	Yes
Context Window	Up to 1M tokens	Model dependent
Supported Models	Composor 2.5, Claude Fable 5, Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, Codex 5.3, Gemini 3.5, Grok 4.20	All Vercel AI Gateway supported models, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, z.AI, Moonshot, etc
Pricing Model	Freemium	Free, BYOK, Usage Based
Free Tier	Yes	No
Price Range	Free / $20-200/mo	0 - $20 / mo / Custom (Vercel AI Gateway)
Source Code Availability	Proprietary Software	Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Source Code	N/A	https://github.com/vercel-labs/fx
Development State	active	active