Cursor vs OpenCode

Bottom line

Cursor has a free plan plus paid upgrades, while OpenCode is free. OpenCode is open source and Cursor is not. You can run OpenCode on your own machine or server; Cursor is hosted by the vendor.

Which one should you try?

Cursor

Freemium

Best for Developers who want an agent to plan and edit across a codebase

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OpenCode

Free

Best for Developers who want an open-source coding agent in the terminal

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Pricing, capabilities and platforms side by side. Prices are as of the "Pricing checked" date in the table.

Cursor

AI code editor, CLI and cloud agents. Free plan; Plus $8/month uses Grok only; third-party model use starts with Premium.

OpenCode is an MIT-licensed AI coding agent for the terminal that works with the model provider you choose, including local models. We installed it and ran three agent tasks: 9 of 9 passed with Claude Opus 5.5, 3 of 9 with a 3B local model.

Attribute	Cursor	OpenCode
Pricing	Freemium	Free
Price	Free; Plus $8/month (Grok models only); Premium $30/month plus third-party model usage; Teams from $30/user/month	Free (MIT). Optional Zen models pay as you go; Go $10/mo, Go Plus $40/mo
Pricing checked	Oct 17, 2026	Oct 19, 2026
Free trial	Not stated	Not stated
Open source	No	Yes
Has API	Yes	Yes
Self-hosted option	No	Yes
Platforms	Desktop app (macOS, Windows, Linux), CLI, cloud agents, Slack, GitHub	Terminal, Desktop (beta macOS/Windows/Linux), IDE extension
Pros	One agent workflow spans the desktop editor, a CLI, Slack and GitHub pull request reviews, per Cursor's homepage. The model picker offers models from several providers plus Cursor's own Composer models. A documented Cloud Agents API and SDKs let teams start agents from code.	Passed all 9 of our agent tasks with Claude Opus 5.5. Works with the provider you choose, including a local model behind an OpenAI-compatible server. Open source under the MIT license.
Cons	Third-party models are billed separately at API list price, so costs vary with model choice. Plan names and prices changed after the SpaceX acquisition; the lowest paid tier covers Grok models only. The pages reviewed do not describe a self-hosted option.	With a 3B local model it passed 3 of 9 tasks (only the simplest one), so plan on a larger model. It reaches out to models.opencode.ai and registry.npmjs.org, and downloads provider packages on first use, so offline setups need those pre-installed. The vendor lists its desktop app as beta.

Made up your mind?

Cursor

Freemium

Best for Developers who want an agent to plan and edit across a codebase

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OpenCode

Free

Best for Developers who want an open-source coding agent in the terminal

Visit OpenCode See full review

Specs come from each tool's own site and docs (how we test). AIDiveForge is editorially independent.

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