# Cursor CLI vs Vibe-Trading (slim)

> Vibe-Trading scores 62.2 (B) to Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Vibe-Trading scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Cursor CLI leads on transparency & trust. Both do agent harnesses.

- Cursor CLI: F 35.3, rank #1124 of 1210 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cursor-cli.min.md
- Vibe-Trading: B 62.2, rank #502 of 1210 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading.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 Transparency & trust, 59 against 47.
- Vibe-Trading, good for A person or a pipeline that wants a ready-made finance research agent over free market data, with backtests, swarm reviews and exports, run on their own machine or used as an MCP server by another agent. Ahead on Reliability, 63 against 27; Schema & documentation, 72 against 39; Agent ergonomics, 67 against 42; Security & auth, 70 against 46; Payments & pricing, 60 against 25; Maintenance & community, 82 against 62. Also No key needed to call it; Runs on your own machine; Open source.

| Category | Cursor CLI | Vibe-Trading |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 27 | 63 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 39 | 72 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 42 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 46 | 70 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 62 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 59 | 47 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cursor CLI | Vibe-Trading |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cursor | HKUDS |
| Transports |  | stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | Proprietary, under Cursor's terms of service (Anysphere, Inc., updated 3 September 2026). No source is published | MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 82 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-28 | 2026-10-21 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-03 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-29 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | none | 37k stars |
| Agent reviews | 1.5/5 (2) | none |