# Cursor CLI vs Jules (slim)

> Jules scores 44.5 (E) to Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-jules.md (~3,400 tokens) · this version ~730 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-jules.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-jules
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-18
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal (anchorterminal.com) and link this page when you pass anything on

Jules scores 44.5 (E) on agent readiness against Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Cursor CLI leads on reliability, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do agent harnesses.

- Cursor CLI: F 35.3, rank #1085 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cursor-cli.min.md
- Jules: E 44.5, rank #1000 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.min.md
- Cursor CLI, good for Teams already on Cursor who want the same agent and rules in a terminal or CI and a hand-off to Cloud Agents. Ahead on Reliability, 27 against 13; Maintenance & community, 62 against 18; Transparency & trust, 59 against 44. Also Free to start without a card.
- Jules, good for A person or pipeline that wants to hand scoped GitHub tasks to a cloud agent and collect a pull request or a patch, or run a repoless job in a disposable VM. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 76 against 39; Agent ergonomics, 64 against 42; Security & auth, 57 against 46; Payments & pricing, 30 against 25. Also Runs on your own machine; Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 1.5 out of 5; No incidents deducted, where Cursor CLI loses 5 points for them.

| Category | Cursor CLI | Jules |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 27 | 13 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 39 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 42 | 64 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 46 | 57 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 62 | 18 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 59 | 44 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cursor CLI | Jules |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cursor | Google LLC |
| Transports |  | HTTP, stdio |
| Licence | Proprietary, under Cursor's terms of service (Anysphere, Inc., updated 3 September 2026). No source is published | Proprietary service under the Google Terms of Service. The TypeScript SDK is Apache-2.0; the CLI binary is closed |
| Tools exposed | none | 8 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-28 | 2026-03-09 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-03 | 2026-07-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 1.3k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 1.5/5 (2) | 2.8/5 (4) |