$200 Claude/cursor vs $200 Claude CLI

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Claude CLI will not give you access to the other models. Claude isn’t an ultimate LLM. Also, Grok-4 and GPT-5 will soon be released

The Best AI Models to Use (and Why Claude Isn’t One of Them)

Context I’m not entirely sure why everyone is so obsessed with Claude. Sure, it’s solid as an SWE, but it’s not the smartest model out there. And if you take a look at the benchmarks, the “Thinking” version isn’t that far ahead of the regular one. Certainly not twice as good. From what I understand, based on reading its “Thinking” outputs, that mode acts more like a TODO list — it lets the model be a bit more efficient, that’s all. Also, Claude has actually been the most expensive model for ove…