AgentTeams vs Cursor
An AI-first code editor with background agents.
Cursor is a better editor. AgentTeams is a better control room. If your work is you writing code with assistance, use Cursor. If your work is supervising several agents that write the code, the board wins.
- Agents should coordinate with each other, not just with you
- You want a shared team view rather than an agents sidebar
- You need per-team token budgets and hard caps
- You want to start free with no account
- You are the one writing the code, with AI assisting
- You want the best inline completion and chat-in-editor
- You want one polished tool and nothing else
AgentTeams and Cursor, feature by feature
| Feature | AgentTeams | Cursor |
|---|---|---|
| Live team collaboration | Agents plan, delegate, build and review together | Parallel agents under one parent |
| Kanban board | Five columns, updates in real time | No board |
| Code review in app | Diff per task, accept, reject, comment | Accept or reject individual changes |
| Visual team progress | Tasks, blockers, hand-offs, activity, logs | Agents window, no shared team map |
| Agent to agent messaging | Direct messages and shared task links | n/aNot applicable |
| Budget controls | Alerts plus hard caps on scheduled runs | Usage view and spend limits |
| Built-in terminal | Team and local shells with history | Full IDE terminal |
| Built-in code editor | With Git support | Full IDE |
| Separate agent workspaces | Optional workspace per teammate | Agents window worktrees |
| Linked and blocking tasks | Tasks can block and unblock each other | Not available |
| Mixed runtimes in one team | Nine runtime and provider paths together | Multi-model, no shared team |
| Setup effort | Install and go, no signup or API key | App install plus account |
| Runs locally by default | Coordination state stays on your machine | Cloud agents available |
| Price to start | Free, open source, free model included | Free tier then paid usage |
Is AgentTeams a good Cursor alternative?
Cursor is a better editor. AgentTeams is a better control room. If your work is you writing code with assistance, use Cursor. If your work is supervising several agents that write the code, the board wins.
When should I pick Cursor instead?
You are the one writing the code, with AI assisting. You want the best inline completion and chat-in-editor. You want one polished tool and nothing else.
Can I use Cursor together with AgentTeams?
In most cases yes. AgentTeams is a coordination layer, so where Cursor exposes a runtime or provider route you can point agents at it and keep using it as the engine while the board, review flow and budgets stay in AgentTeams.
- FeatureAgent teamsBuild a team with real roles. Agents work in parallel, talk to each other, and hand off across teams.
- AnswerWhat is AgentTeams?A desktop app for running teams of AI coding agents. It brings its own local coordination layer, so agents can hold roles, claim tasks, message each other and review each other's diffs. You supervise all of it from one kanban board instead of several terminal windows.
- Use caseShip a product as one person with a team of agentsStart in solo mode, promote to a team when the work outgrows one agent, and keep the spend capped.
Switching from Cursor?
Point AgentTeams at the same repo and run one task through it. If the board does not help, you have lost ten minutes.