cmux vs Cursor
cmux is an orchestrator by Manaflow. Cursor is an AI-native IDE by Anysphere. Every cell below is read from the directory data and points back to a vendor page.
 cmux |  Cursor | |
|---|---|---|
| General | ||
| Layer | Orchestrator | AI-native IDE, Terminal agent, Cloud agent |
| Vendor | Manaflow | Anysphere |
| Platforms | macOS, iOS | macOS, Windows, Linux |
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later Open source | Proprietary Proprietary |
| Status | active | active |
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Entry price | Free | Free |
| Top individual plan | $30/mo | $200/mo |
| Team seat | $35/user/mo | $40/user/mo |
| Included usage | — | $20/mo Pro |
| Beyond the plan | — | Blocked, API list price |
| Part of a plan | — | — |
| Models | ||
| Providers | Alibaba, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Vendor models, Google, Meta, MiniMax, Mistral, Moonshot, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, xAI, Zhipu inherited | Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Vendor models |
| Bring your own key | BYOK | Partial BYOK |
| Local models | No | No |
| Features | ||
| Git worktrees | No | Yes |
| Parallel agents | Yes | Yes |
| Subagents | No | Yes |
| MCP client | No | Yes |
| Browser automation | Yes | Yes |
| Remote execution | Yes | Yes |
| Mobile companion | Yes | No |
| Diff review | No | Yes |
| Checkpoints | No | Yes |
| Plugins | No | Yes |
| Hooks | No | Yes |
| Tab completion | No | Yes |
| Works with | ||
| Runs | Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, Aider, Cline | — |
| Runs inside | — | cmux, Conductor, dmux, Emdash, Herdr, JetBrains AI, Orca, Paseo, Superset, T3 Code, Vibe Kanban, Warp |
| Pricing verified | 2026-08-23 | 2026-08-25 |