Cursor CLI vs. Goose CLI

Feature	Cursor CLI	Goose CLI

Tagline	Ship code with agents right from your terminal	An open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions
Website	https://cursor.com/cli	https://block.github.io/goose/
Language	typescript	rust
Release Date	August 7, 2025	December 4, 2024
Last Updated	April 28, 2026	June 3, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	deep	basic
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	Cursor IDE, Xcode, Android Studio, JetBrains, VSCode, Neovim	Cursor, VSCode, JetBrains IDEs
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	No	Yes
Context Window	Up to 1M tokens	Model-dependent
Terminal Bench 2.0		#58 · 54.3% ±2.6 ²
Supported Models	Composor 2, Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5, Codex 5.3, Gemini 3, Grok	Works with 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Google, Mistral and works with 400+ models on OpenRouter.
Pricing Model	Freemium	BYOK
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free / $20-200/mo	Free (BYOK)
Source Code Availability	Proprietary Software	Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Source Code	N/A	https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose
Development State	active	active