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Claude Code vs Cursor
Compare Claude Code vs Cursor: pricing, context window, benchmarks (coding, math, reasoning), capabilities. Updated April 2026.
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claude.com/claude-code ↗ Cursor
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Free tier
Not free — requires Claude Pro or API credits
Limited completions, GPT-4o-mini default
Standard plan
Claude Pro — $20/mo
Pro — $20/mo
Top plan
Claude Max 20× — $200/mo
Business — $40/mo
API input / 1M tokens
$3.00 Best
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API output / 1M tokens
$15.00 Best
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Capability
Context window
1M Best
200K
Max output tokens
64K Best
8K
Knowledge cutoff
2026-03
Live (web)
Benchmarks
Coding (LiveCodeBench)
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Math (AIME 2025)
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Reasoning (GPQA Diamond)
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Human pref. (LMArena Elo)
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Features
Image input
✓
Partial
Voice mode
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Web search
✓
✓
File upload
✓
✓
Image generation
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Code execution
✓
✓
Agent / tool use
✓
✓
Persistent memory
✓
✓
Claude Code
Anthropic's CLI coding agent. Same Claude models as the chat product, but optimized for autonomous, multi-file refactoring with bash + edit tools. Strongest at large-codebase reasoning.
Cursor
IDE-integrated coding tool, not a chat AI. Routes to Claude, GPT, Gemini under the hood. Best autocomplete + agent mode in the IDE-tools class.
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