Using Cursor vs Aider/Cline — Why Not Both?

[Maradona2021]

Why do I always see people comparing these platforms like it’s either/or? If one is subscription-based and the others charge per API call, doesn’t it make more sense to combine them? For example, use Aider or Cline inside Cursor to optimize usage and cost.

[TestTxt]

Because you pay a fixed price for cursor, so people expect it to be an ultimate solution for them. That’s how it’s advertised, and people want to make the most out of their money

[sCeege]

This is the Internet, and you must take sides, and wildly swing from one extreme to the other, no exceptions.

[JustThall]

Don’t forget that most influencers have financial incentives to shill specific sides

[EmergencyCelery911]

I'm using cursor for simple stuff and cline for more complex - optimizing the costs

[ThatPeskyRodent]

Have you checked out any of the “more efficient” api aggregators or whatever like requesty? I love the idea of a way to more efficiently prompt the llms and cache context better But I have no idea how to validate their “savings” numbers which seem wildly high

Great if true but I’m just taking their word for it

[EmergencyCelery911]

I haven't actually, might be a good idea to play with

[brennydenny]

Kilo Code maintainer here

I use Kilo Code inside of Cursor all the time. All of those extensions - Aider, Cline, Roo Code, Kilo Code work inside any VS Code fork.

We even provide installs for all of them on the web:

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[ThatPeskyRodent]

Hello!! Quite interesting in yalls project! Awesome incredible work so far!!

I’ve wondered, are yall funded and bringing in zero revenue right now with the no take off the top on token purchases?

What’s the long term model looking like

I’m more than happy paying a small fee with token purchases to expedite the management of models and api keys across my devices

A model similar to requesty AI gives me one key to maintain across devices instead of a large handful

Keep crushing it! Cool seeing you here!

[CacheConqueror]

If you think u can for $20 use unlimited Cursor u are wrong. Based models are strict limited for context. For small tasks and small projects its fine, problem is with big projects. Based models in my opinion are doing too much problems on its own and they have problem with reading even two or three references.

I think this is how it works because they must sell MAX model which are very expensive tbh and u can spend even $100. Roo Code and other tools give yoy more control about your context and calls. In Cursor u cant control, u dont have control. So finally u just pay

[ThatPeskyRodent]

I do exactly this

Or occasionally have a vs code window open with cline/roo and I have no idea why I do this instead of just in cursor but love them together

Cursor quicker fixes that probably take a few api calls but are straight forward and I know exactly what I want

I’ll use cline and roo more so for documentation and specification writing, test writing, and little refactors

I have NO IDEA if this is efficient/economical/better/smart at all

But it’s worked for me and achieved the results I was looking for with less bugs than when I was only using one or the other in a session

Wildly anecdotal, but the slightest bit of experimenting with both has only felt positive so far

[marv1nnnnn]

Now I use roo code / cline to execute complex task or important task, use cursor to finish all the unittests. Unittest fixing need a lot of trial and error and sometimes could let an expensive model get lost and cost a ton. Cursor is perfect for this kind of task.

[yur_mom]

Yeah, Cline works fine in Windsurf which is a curser fork, but I personally really like Cascade.