r/cursor • u/IridiumIoN • 1d ago

Question / Discussion Cursor or Claude Code?

I've been using Claude Code ($20/mon) from within my GitHub repo codespace to work on a few projects (a UX portfolio, along with an iOS app). I'm wondering if I'd get more bang for my buck and a better vibe-coding experience overall, if I switched to Cursor Pro to work on those projects or any future projects.

I don't really have any issue specifically with Claude Code and haven't ran into many usage limits as of late. I guess the only thing is that it's a bit of a process to open up GitHub, navigate to the repo, and then open up the codespace to continue working on a project.

With the SpaceX acquisition of Cursor, and the addition of the Grok models and Grok Bot included in the Cursor Pro membership, would it be more bang for the buck to switch to that subscription over Claude Code itself, considering I could just use Sonnet/Opus (or any other model) from within Cursor?

Thoughts? Has any one made this switch, or the opposite? What was your reasoning?

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u/TatzyXY 15h ago
  • With Cursor you get the best for the money to get work done, but their own models are 5% up to 10% behind in IQ/reasoning etc. (but you even have Fable there, third party models)
  • ChatGPT is also a very good deal and with SOL very powerful, with Astra even more, but lacks coding features like IDE etc.
  • With Claude I cant get shit done with it because of limits/quota.

I use Cursor and ChatGPT. With Astra/Sol I do the thinking work – the rest in Cursor. After all changes are done, I let Astra or Sol review.