Is Claude Code 5x Cheaper Than Cursor? I Ran 12...

In Part 1 of this series, I noticed something strange while using Claude Code's Max 20x plan: it was the same $200/month as Cursor Ultra, doing the same work, but my Claude Code utilization was stuck at 16% while I had been burning through Cursor's token budget. In Part 2, I figured out how to push past 50% utilization with parallel Claude Code agents. Given that I could use so many more Sonnet/Opus tokens on Claude Code, my first instinct was: "is Claude Code actually 5x cheaper than Cursor?" A