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Comparison	Claude Code✓ Anthropic's terminal-based AI coding agent with 80.9% SWE-bench, Agent Teams, and GitHub Actions Subscription	Claude Opus 4.6✓ Anthropic's frontier reasoning model: 80.9% SWE-bench record, 1M token beta context, and adaptive thinking Pay-per-use	Cursor✓ The AI-native code editor with $1B+ ARR, 25+ models, and background agents on dedicated VMs Freemium	Windsurf✓ AI-native IDE with Cascade agents and SWE model family Paid
Category	AI Coding CLI	AI Model	AI-Powered IDE	AI-Powered IDE
Pricing	Claude Pro: $20/month Claude Max 5x: $100/month Claude Max 20x: $200/month Teams: $25-$150/seat/month API Usage: Opus 4.6: $5/$25 MTok \| Sonnet 4.6: $3/$15 MTok	API on-demand: $5 per 1M input tokens; $25 per 1M output tokens	Hobby: $0/month Pro: $20/month Pro+: $60/month Ultra: $200/month Teams: $40/user/month	Free: $0 Pro: $15/user/month Teams: $30/user/month Enterprise: Contact sales
AI Models	claude-opus-4-6claude-sonnet-4-6	claude-opus-4-6	Claude Opus 4.5Claude Sonnet 4.5Claude Sonnet 4.6GPT-5GPT-5.2+4 more	SWE-1.5 (fast agent model)SWE-1SWE-1-mini (for autocomplete)BYOK: OpenAI model families (availability varies by account/provider routing)BYOK: Anthropic Claude (e.g., Sonnet/Opus/Haiku)+2 more
Context Window	200K tokens standard; 1M token beta available on Opus 4.6	200,000 tokens (1M beta)	Up to 272K tokens (codebase-wide context via RAG indexing)	Fast Context retrieval; context size depends on chosen model
Capabilities	Code Completion Code Generation Code Review Debugging Refactoring Testing Documentation Chat Agentic Mode Multi File	Code Completion Code Generation Code Review Debugging Refactoring Testing Documentation Chat Agentic Mode Multi File	Code Completion Code Generation Code Review Debugging Refactoring Testing Documentation Chat Agentic Mode Multi File Voice Input	Code Completion Code Generation Code Review Debugging Refactoring Testing Documentation Chat Agentic Mode Multi File
Platforms	macOSLinuxWindows	APIWebDesktopiOSAndroid	macOSWindowsLinux	macOSLinuxWindows
Languages	Any language via local files and repositories	Any (via API)	All languages supported by VS Code	JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaC++C#+7 more
Open Source	No	No	No	No
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Users	N/A	N/A	1M+ daily active users	N/A
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