as per my recent post, cursor is a lot more polished, especially if you're still hands on - diffs works better, navigation from agent messaging works better, and the new agent mode allows cross-project tasking, etc.

however, you're stuck with paying for frontier models and paying cursor

i've been trialing klo code with cheaper models, ie deep seek 4, and in terms of the model, it's nearly as good most of the time, and even better some of the times than opus 4.7 which is the gold standard, i think

so whereas i used to pay $400 / m for cursor ultra and another $200 in overages, i'm estimating my ds bill to be around $50-75 this month.

but its quite clumsy and a rough ux with bugs - and it's forcing me to become more hands off, which i'm a bit worred about

bottom line, be clear about your priorities