| Claude Code | Cursor Agent | |
|---|---|---|
| arenaElo | 1420 | 1378 |
| humanEval | 93.1 | 91.2 |
| sweBench | 64.3 | 62 |
| mmlu | 92.3 | 88.7 |
| gpqa | 65.2 | 59.4 |
| aime | 88 | 85 |
| Price in/out ($/M) | $15 / $75 | $0 / $0 |
Claude Code is terminal-first with hooks, MCP and background runs: the power-user pick. Cursor gives you a visual IDE, diff UX and a model router across Claude/GPT/Gemini. Ship agents in Claude Code; iterate on UIs in Cursor.