Cursor vs Claude Code for game development: price and output rights

Side-by-side from each vendor's own pricing and terms pages, checked 2026-10-15. Prices shown exactly as displayed (promos and billing period noted).

The licence question first

Cursor: free tier: commercial use allowed. Paid: commercial use allowed (Same). Details
Claude Code: free tier: n/a. Paid: commercial use allowed (Consumer Terms s.4: subject to compliance, Anthropic assigns to you all of its right, title and interest (if any) in Outputs). Details

	Cursor	Claude Code
Free tier	Free: limited agent and chat requests	Not included in Free plan (pricing table: Claude Code 'No' on Free)
Paid price (as shown)	Plus $8/mo (Grok models only); Premium $30/mo; Super $100/mo; Ultra $200/mo; Teams $30+/user/mo	Pro $20/mo monthly ($17/mo annual); Max from $100/mo
Credits / cost per asset	not stated	not stated
Licence: free tier	Terms 5.3: you retain rights in Inputs; Anysphere assigns its rights in Suggestions to you	n/a (Claude Code not included on Free)
Licence: paid	Same	Consumer Terms s.4: subject to compliance, Anthropic assigns to you all of its right, title and interest (if any) in Outputs
Export / engines	Editor (any engine)	Terminal/IDE agent (any engine)
API / MCP	MCP access controls listed (Enterprise); third-party models via API price	API via Anthropic Platform (separate commercial terms)
Affiliate	not stated	not stated