Compare · Tier B
CodeHerder vs Cursor
Cursor's background agents, tied to its own harness and billing, now paired with Graphite's code review after Cursor's December 2025 acquisition.
What Cursor actually ships
- Background agents running on Cursor's own harness and billing
- Graphite's code-review tooling, pulled directly into the same product stack since the December 2025 acquisition
Where it's strong
- A tight, single-vendor loop from agent to review, inside one product a lot of developers already use
How CodeHerder differs
- Cursor makes one vendor's harness and billing the whole product; CodeHerder treats harness and model choice as something the buyer controls
Model and harness plurality is a deliberate CodeHerder design goal, precisely because Cursor and the other vendor-integrated background agents make a single vendor's harness and billing the whole product.
Capability snapshot
CodeHerder vs Cursor, capability by capability
Every row traces to the same source as the full matrix, where the full legend lives. In short: "not published" means no public evidence was found, not that the feature is absent. Verified as of 2026-08-08.
| Capability | CodeHerder | Cursor |
|---|---|---|
| Concurrent agents | Published | Published |
| Multi-vendor harnesses | Published | Not published (as of 2026-08-08) [1] |
| Customer-owned machines | Published | Not published (as of 2026-08-08) |
| Multi-machine routing | Published | Not published (as of 2026-08-08) |
| Automatic work assignment | Published | Not published (as of 2026-08-08) |
| Capability-based routing | Published | Not published (as of 2026-08-08) |
| Atomic claiming | Published | Not published (as of 2026-08-08) |
| Dependencies | Published | Not published (as of 2026-08-08) |
| Custom workflows | Published | Not published (as of 2026-08-08) |
| Server-enforced gates | Published | Not published (as of 2026-08-08) |
| Agent handoffs | Published | Not published (as of 2026-08-08) |
| Persistent shared memory | Published | Not published (as of 2026-08-08) |
| Live terminal / view | Published | Unverified |
| Human takeover / steer | Published | Unverified |
| Cost per task | Published | Unverified |
| Cost per stage/model | Published | Not published (as of 2026-08-08) |
| Hard $ cap | Published | Not published (as of 2026-08-08) |
| Schedules | Published | Unverified |
| Webhooks / API / CLI | Published | Unverified |
| Self-host full platform | Published (Enterprise) | Not published (as of 2026-08-08) |
- Factory (Droids), Devin, and Claude Code Agent Teams are each vertically integrated — the product's whole thesis is a single vendor's own agent(s), so "multi-vendor harness support" isn't just unpublished, it's outside the product's own stated shape. Still written as "not published" rather than a claim of proven absence, per this tree's own rule.
Sources
Verified against Cursor's own site as of 2026-08-08.
- Cursor: welcoming Graphite
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