From my perspective, Gemini CLI is useless—it’s the only LLM that has repeatedly refused to work with me because of so-called "offensive language." And when it does work it's overly verbose and often just plainly wrong. Codex CLI just feels like a stripped-down version of Claude Code.
Claude Code wins for me for one simple reason: I can just pay for a MAX account and not worry about running out of credits or going through my credit card limit. That makes me use the tool twice as much as the others, where I’m constantly watching my credit balance.
Cursor wins because it was the first big one, not sure if it has any important advantages over claude code anymore.
Cursor lets me try all the models with my subscription. The IDE tooling is great. I really dont like 1 line boxes like claude code has. I like to instruct my llms and and read my input. The whole 1 line box claude code gives is super annoying.
Do you mean the text input box only allows one line? In that case, try pressing Alt+Enter for a new line. It's a little unintuitive; I would expect Shift+Enter for a new line.
woah its alt-enter, I always did shift+enter and thought these tools were terrible. They still are terrible if they use alt-enter, what a waste of time lol/
Claude Code wins for me for one simple reason: I can just pay for a MAX account and not worry about running out of credits or going through my credit card limit. That makes me use the tool twice as much as the others, where I’m constantly watching my credit balance.
Cursor wins because it was the first big one, not sure if it has any important advantages over claude code anymore.