Cursor CLI vs. Plandex

Feature	Cursor CLI	Plandex

Tagline	Ship code with agents right from your terminal	Open source AI coding agent for large projects and real world tasks
Website	https://cursor.com/cli	https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex
Language	typescript	go
Release Date	August 7, 2025	March 14, 2024
Last Updated	April 28, 2026	June 11, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	No
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	No
Git Integration	deep	deep
Multi-File Editing	Yes	No
Auto Test Running	Yes	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	No
Voice Mode	Yes	No
IDE Integration	Cursor IDE, Xcode, Android Studio, JetBrains, VSCode, Neovim	None - terminal only
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	No
Web Search	Yes	No
Local Model Support	No	Yes
Context Window	Up to 1M tokens	2M tokens effective
Supported Models	Composor 2, Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5, Codex 5.3, Gemini 3, Grok	Any OpenAI-compatible models and 400+ models from OpenRouter.
Pricing Model	Freemium	Free
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free / $20-200/mo	Free (self-hosted)
Source Code Availability	Proprietary Software	Open Source (MIT)
Source Code	N/A	https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex
Development State	active	inactive