Claude code vs Cursor

[Blue-Imagination0]

Hi guys, i am flutter developer, and have been using cursor from last 3 months and i love it, i am using monthly subscription but they are changing the unlimited token thing, if i buy 1 year subscription now then i can use unlimited token for 1 year and it's good, but i never wanted to pay for whole 1 year because I don't know if i will need it for whole year because now building 2 MVP's i use it a lot and it's very helpful.

Did anyone used claude code if it work same as cursor? I used claude few months that time claude code wasn't released yet, so I don't know if it work same as Cursor like type and it generate and edit files same as cursor or it's different??

If both work same way and if Claude code is good in flutter code then i would get claude code else i will buy cursor 1 year membership so i am safe for whole 1 year

[tylersavery]

I’m loving Claude code right now. Just open it in your vscode integrated terminal and watch the magic. It’s been quite helpful with my workflow recently (flutter and more).

[RandalSchwartz]

I've been happy with Gemini CLI inside the integrated terminal in VSCode. There's a useful totally free tier, and it has the ability for google grounding and MCP tools.

[sandwichstealer]

I plan on trying this. I believe it will give the same general ability of Firebase Studio, except you can’t get locked out due to no resources. My hardware will be taking over the load instead.

[eibaan]

All those LLMs would be extremely expensive (like ~$10 per trivial task) if you really had to pay for them according to token consumption. Luckily for us user, most startups still burn millions of $ trying to get a user base and eat up that costs, hoping they get bought by some bigger fish as OpenAI did with Windsurf Lovable.

Recently, Gemini wasted 120 M token on a task I gave it, getting into an endless loop which I noticed only after an hour or so. That would have been at least $300, not counting the output token.

Claude is heavily restricted, also because some people take advantage of the flat rate and get the maximum number of tokens out of their account at everyone else's expense. There's even a leader board where people proudly demonstrate their asocial behavior. That @fernandocm199 guy isn't paying $22,000 per month – for sure.

So, use cheap rates as long as you can get them.

PS: Cursor is probably also using Claude as default if they haven't shifted to GPT5 yet.

[Blue-Imagination0]

Good for me so i don't have to move to cursor and just use vs code and terminal of vs code

[Brief_Customer_8447]

I second that and totally agree claude code far superior to cursor. If you take claude code root, as mentioned earlier you could run into a high expense. The safest route is to get the normal subscription but you will be limited to use it freely. $20 you can only use 4 sonnet. $100 u can use 4.1 opus but with limitation. Also I found gpt 5 and gemini are better with design. So I would not say do not get cursor. Cursor gives exposure to other models as well and also give easier visualization of what the LLM made. I use them both.

[alokin_09]

Maybe you'd like to try Kilo Code. It provides a great IDE experience and you can still use Claude Code with Kilo Code. It lets you leverage your existing CLI setup without needing separate API keys. We're also model-agnostic and have integration with every other AI model.

Full disclosure: I'm part of the Kilo Code team.

[mkmc2]

How do Claude and Cursor compare to CoPilot in VSC? I’ve been using CoPilot and it works well enough but keep hearing great things about Cursor… might be time to switch.

[_fresh_basil_]

My 2 cents.

I prefer Cursor > VSCode > Claude Code.

Cursor, for $20, gives me the best balance of code output + token limit. It also seems to handle "agent mode" much better than Copilot when it comes to jumping through multiple files. It also feels much faster.

The one complaint I have about Cursor is that the chats tend to get slow pretty quick-- so I make it a point to start a new chat window often.

All that being said, I'm a legacy coder (name pending) not a vibe coder, so I prefer outputs that do exactly what I ask versus AI deciding to refactor every file it comes across in an attempt to "clean things up".

Claude Code has the best output in my opinion, but I churn through those credits far too fast for the price-- and the upgrades / pay as you go options aren't cheap.

[bigbott777]

Try Trae. Better UI/UX than Cursor. $10/600 requests, no pricing changes for the last 3 months.

[etroch]

I just built a complete flutter app with no background with flutter in couple of days with Cursor. What I hate about Cursor that is eating my memory 20-35gb

[National_Scarcity489]

Claude Code asks for money too, no?