Magic.dev vs Poolside vs Cursor vs Anthropic API
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Magic.dev
Frontier coding model with 100M-token context window
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Cursor
AI-first VS Code fork — agentic, codebase-aware editing
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Anthropic API
Token-metered API access to Claude Opus, Sonnet and Haiku
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| RECATOOLS Score | 5.8 / 10 | 7 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 | 8.7 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Contact | Enterprise | Freemium | Paid |
| Free tier | — | — | Hobby plan — standing free tier (not just a trial), 2,000 completions / 50 slow premium requests per month, no card required | — |
| Paid from | — | — | $20/month (Pro); Pro+ $60/month; Ultra $200/month; Teams $40/user/month | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | — | — | 1m+ developers | — |
| Founded | 2022 | — | 2022 | 2023 |
| Maker | — | — | SpaceX | — |
| Verdict | Magic.dev is an AI research company building frontier code-generation models, best known for pursuing extremely long context windows (its LTM models targeting up to 100M tokens) aimed at reasoning over entire codebases a... |
Poolside's premise — a coding model trained with reinforcement learning from actual code execution, deployed inside your own AWS environment rather than through a third-party API — is still one of the more credible infra... |
Cursor is the most polished AI-first code editor going — a VS Code fork that bakes model-aware autocomplete, multi-file agent edits and chat-with-your-codebase into the core editing loop. Tab completion and Composer are... |
The Anthropic API remains the most direct route to Claude's reasoning and coding strength, with clean Python and TypeScript SDKs, well-documented tool use, prompt caching that cuts repeated-context cost by 90%, and a 1M-... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.