Comparison · under IB-CODE-2026.2
Cursor vs Grok Build
| Cursor | Grok Build | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Anysphere | xAI |
| Pricing | Pro $20/mo + token-based SDK usage | SuperHeavy intro $99/mo for first 6 months (then $299/mo); API at $0.20 / $1.50 per Mtok in/out |
| Default model | Composer 2 (proprietary) — switchable to Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.5 Pro | Grok 3.5 (Grok Build proprietary fine-tune); 256K context; 70.8% SWE-bench Verified |
| CLI surface | ✓ | ✓ |
| Eval status | queued | deferred |
Comparison pending — neither side evaluated yet
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About each tool
Cursor
Cursor is the IDE-first agentic coding tool with $2B ARR by Feb 2026 (fastest B2B SaaS scaling on record). The Cursor SDK released April 29 2026 exposes the agent harness programmatically for the first time — codebase indexing, semantic search, subagent spawning, hooks, MCP. Evaluations under IB-COD…
Grok Build
Grok Build launched May 14 2026 in early beta — xAI's entry in the agentic coding CLI category. The novel feature is multi-agent arena mode: up to 8 concurrent sub-agents working on parallel branches with a coordinator selecting the best result. Pricing is the steepest in this list for individual us…