Different jobs
Cursor and Claude Code are ranked on different jobs. This page quotes those placements and does not merge the letters.
They are not on the same list, so there is no combined rank. Cursor is provisional S-tier on AI Code Editors & IDE Agents: One of the most widely adopted AI IDEs; full agent, multi-model, cloud agents on paid tiers. Cursor is provisional A-tier on Cloud / Async Coding Agents: Cloud agents and automations included from the Premium tier, tightly integrated with the editor. Claude Code is provisional S-tier on Terminal Coding Agents: Benchmark-setting terminal agent and one of the most-starred coding-agent repos (150k+).
AI-first code editor (VS Code-based) with agent mode, cloud agents and Bugbot code review.
One of the most widely adopted AI IDEs; full agent, multi-model, cloud agents on paid tiers.
Cloud agents and automations included from the Premium tier, tightly integrated with the editor.
Anthropic's agentic coding tool for terminal and IDE: understands the codebase, edits files, runs commands.
Benchmark-setting terminal agent and one of the most-starred coding-agent repos (150k+).