You Already Pay for Claude Code and Codex. Do You Still Need Cursor?
Hermes IDE: Download free · Star it on GitHub — one console for every coding agent, on macOS, Windows and Linux Book: AI Agents Pocket Guide · AI in TypeScript — the 5-book series Me: xgabriel.com | GitHub Claude Pro, $20. ChatGPT Plus, $20. Cursor, $20. Three AI lines on one card statement, $60 a month at list price, and on most days the code that lands in your repo came out of Claude Code or…
The article explores the pricing of AI coding tools and whether adding a third tool, Cursor, is necessary. It explains that ChatGPT Plus, Claude Code, and Codex are all essentially paying for model access, while Cursor provides an editor with built-in model access. The author suggests that paying for two of these separately might be redundant, as the third tool already covers the editor cost.
It then details the different plans and pricing for each tool, highlighting that Cursor's Individual plan includes access to frontier models and cloud agents, while Warp's Build plan includes $20 of agent usage included each month. The article suggests that if you primarily use the unique features of each tool, then paying for Cursor might be worth it.
However, if you mostly use them as a way to access Claude Code and Codex, then adding Cursor may not provide significant additional value.
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