Claude Code vs Cursor
8 members list Claude Code, up 8 in the last 12 weeks, data as of 19 September 2026
7 members list Cursor, up 7 in the last 12 weeks, data as of 19 September 2026
How has interest in each changed?
Collected from public datasets outside Stackness, not from stacks on this site. A series both tools have shares one chart and one scale, because its unit is the same for both. Data sources
Mentions, monthly
Claude Code: Hacker News mentions: 1 mention (2024) to 1,667 mentions (2026)
Cursor: Hacker News mentions: 23 mentions (2023) to 25 mentions (2026)
Imported from Hacker News mentions
Installs, monthly
Claude Code: Homebrew analytics installs: 79,995 installs (2026)
Cursor: Homebrew analytics installs: 9,742 installs (2026)
Imported from Homebrew analytics
Installs, yearly
Claude Code: Homebrew analytics installs: 1,173,923 installs (2026)
Cursor: Homebrew analytics installs: 144,075 installs (2026)
Imported from Homebrew analytics
Questions asked, monthly
Claude Code: Stack Exchange data explorer questions asked: 1 question (2025) to 4 questions (2026)
Cursor: Stack Exchange data explorer questions asked: 3 questions (2009) to 1 question (2024)
Imported from Stack Exchange data explorer
Usage share, yearly
Claude Code: Stack Overflow developer survey usage share: 9.75 % of respondents (2025)
Cursor: Stack Overflow developer survey usage share: 17.99 % of respondents (2025)
Imported from Stack Overflow developer survey
Series only one of them has
Claude Code: npm downloads: 147,648 downloads (2025) to 82,199,042 downloads (2026). Imported from npm downloads.
Claude Code: Wikipedia pageviews: 3 views (2024) to 132,501 views (2026). Imported from Wikipedia pageviews.
Who uses both?
4 members list both Claude Code and Cursor.
0 members moved from Claude Code to Cursor and 1 from Cursor to Claude Code between November 2025 and December 2025.
What do people pair them with?
Tools that members list in the same stack as each of them.
Paired with both
Only with Claude Code
Only with Cursor
Which moves use Claude Code?
- Session summaries beat context decay like coffee beats my ability to function by Sam Rivera
- Throw away your prototype code and rewrite it on purpose by Marcus Cole
- Ask for the plan first, edit never by Elif Yilmaz
Which moves use Cursor?
- Session summaries beat context decay like coffee beats my ability to function by Sam Rivera
- Ask for the plan first, edit never by Elif Yilmaz
- Package domain workflows as reusable agent skills by Stackness