Cursor Desktop vs ServerEngine

Cursor Desktop puts an agent inside your editor, on Cursor's own subscription. ServerEngine puts many agents side by side outside any editor, on the Claude or ChatGPT plan you already pay for, and lets them work across your folders and your servers.

Cursor Desktop

The Agent Workspace in ServerEngine: four agent panels in a grid work on their own jobs at the same time - a landing page, generative art, an analytics dashboard and an ROI calculator - each keeping its own checklist, editing files with the new lines shown as green diffs and checking its own work in a headless browser, while one of them takes a spoken follow-up asking for higher quality.

Feature by feature

	Cursor Desktop	ServerEngine
Models	Frontier models and Grok, picked per request.	Claude Code, Codex CLI, Grok Build, OpenRouter and local Ollama, chosen per agent.
Your existing subscription	Cursor is its own subscription. Each plan includes an amount of model use, and anything beyond it is billed on demand in arrears.	Runs on the Claude, ChatGPT or Grok subscription you already have, or your own OpenRouter key. One provider runs dry, switch the agent to another.
Agent Workspace	Agents in the editor, cloud agents and a mobile app, each in its own pane or thread.	A grid of agents working side by side, each with its own task, model and folder. Every session is saved and restored on startup.
Talk or type	Work is driven by typed prompts. Voice is not among the announced features.	Speak your prompt with local speech-to-text, and hear the answer once the task is done.
Memory	Rules per repository, with a team marketplace for shared rules, skills and plugins.	One memory shared by every model, filed per work folder, growing into a neuron you can open and manage in the chat.
From your phone	A mobile app, and a chat bot that reaches the agent outside the editor.	Slack and Discord reach the agents in your workspace, one channel per agent. WhatsApp reaches the main chat, approvals included.
Agents on a schedule	Automations, on the paid plans.	Any prompt on a timetable, each with its own model, reasoning effort and allowed skills, and a live transcript while it runs.
Plans you can follow	Changes arrive as diffs to review, with agentic code review from Bugbot.	Plan mode proposes the work first, then ticks each step off a checklist you watch. You decide skill by skill what has to ask first.
Code editing	The heart of the product: a full editor built around the agent.	The fastest code editor for agents: built in pure C++, with batched calls so edits land in a fraction of the time - on any folder, with no editor to live inside.
Built-in skills	MCP servers, skills and hooks, plus a marketplace to share them.	Code, browser, computer use, image generation, GitHub, Cloudflare, Stripe, Jira and more, each switched on individually.
Work on your servers	The repository in front of you, plus cloud sandboxes.	On the Commander plan the agent also works on the servers in your network or a VPS in the cloud, inside scopes you approve.
Keep it local	Privacy mode keeps your code out of training, but the models still run in the cloud.	Runs on your own Windows machine. With an Ollama model, nothing leaves your network.

Models

Cursor Desktop

Frontier models and Grok, picked per request.

ServerEngine

Claude Code, Codex CLI, Grok Build, OpenRouter and local Ollama, chosen per agent.

Your existing subscription

Cursor Desktop

Cursor is its own subscription. Each plan includes an amount of model use, and anything beyond it is billed on demand in arrears.

ServerEngine

Runs on the Claude, ChatGPT or Grok subscription you already have, or your own OpenRouter key. One provider runs dry, switch the agent to another.

Agent Workspace

Cursor Desktop

Agents in the editor, cloud agents and a mobile app, each in its own pane or thread.

ServerEngine

A grid of agents working side by side, each with its own task, model and folder. Every session is saved and restored on startup.

Talk or type

Cursor Desktop

Work is driven by typed prompts. Voice is not among the announced features.

ServerEngine

Speak your prompt with local speech-to-text, and hear the answer once the task is done.

Memory

Cursor Desktop

Rules per repository, with a team marketplace for shared rules, skills and plugins.

ServerEngine

One memory shared by every model, filed per work folder, growing into a neuron you can open and manage in the chat.

From your phone

Cursor Desktop

A mobile app, and a chat bot that reaches the agent outside the editor.

ServerEngine

Slack and Discord reach the agents in your workspace, one channel per agent. WhatsApp reaches the main chat, approvals included.

Agents on a schedule

Cursor Desktop

Automations, on the paid plans.

ServerEngine

Any prompt on a timetable, each with its own model, reasoning effort and allowed skills, and a live transcript while it runs.

Plans you can follow

Cursor Desktop

Changes arrive as diffs to review, with agentic code review from Bugbot.

ServerEngine

Plan mode proposes the work first, then ticks each step off a checklist you watch. You decide skill by skill what has to ask first.

Code editing

Cursor Desktop

The heart of the product: a full editor built around the agent.

ServerEngine

The fastest code editor for agents: built in pure C++, with batched calls so edits land in a fraction of the time - on any folder, with no editor to live inside.

Built-in skills

Cursor Desktop

MCP servers, skills and hooks, plus a marketplace to share them.

ServerEngine

Code, browser, computer use, image generation, GitHub, Cloudflare, Stripe, Jira and more, each switched on individually.

Work on your servers

Cursor Desktop

The repository in front of you, plus cloud sandboxes.

ServerEngine

On the Commander plan the agent also works on the servers in your network or a VPS in the cloud, inside scopes you approve.

Keep it local

Cursor Desktop

Privacy mode keeps your code out of training, but the models still run in the cloud.

ServerEngine

Runs on your own Windows machine. With an Ollama model, nothing leaves your network.

The best upgrade for your AI agents

Run many agents side by side. Every session is saved and restored on startup. Switch between Workspaces and use your favorite models from Claude Code, Codex CLI, Grok Build and OpenRouter while sharing the same memory system.

Integrates with Claude Code CLI
Integrates with Codex CLI
Integrates with Grok Build
Integrates with OpenRouter API
Integrates with Ollama App

Why type every prompt? Just talk.

Explaining a goal out loud is quicker than typing, and easier to get into detail. Speak your prompt and the agent answers back once the task is done.

Hey, I'm SENTRI. What can I help you with today?

Your agents get smarter over time

The agent learns and acts based on your conversations. Every memory is linked to a work folder. Memories grow into a neuron you can manage within the chat.

Tied to your desk? Not anymore.

Send a message from your phone. Your agents keep working while you enjoy some free time.

Two phones side by side showing the same Slack thread. On the left the agent is asked to build a landing page for a burger shop and deploy it to Cloudflare, and reports each step as it finishes. On the right it is told to use the Cloudflare skill and then to validate the page in a browser, which it does and confirms the site is live.

The fastest code editor for agents

Lightning-fast code edits. How? It's built in pure C++ and makes use of batch calls to significantly improve performance.

Plug in your integration

Bring your own model

ClaudeClaude Code · use your subscription

CodexCodex CLI · use your subscription

GrokGrok Build · use your subscription

OpenRouterSelf powered · use your API key

OllamaFully local · stays in your network

S.E.N.T.R.I

$24

billed monthly

The AI agent & Workspace

S.E.N.T.R.I Agent
Agentic Workspace
Multi-step task planning
Agents on a schedule
Agent skills & approvals
Coding agent integration
Local speech-to-text
Voice responses

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Commander

$50

billed monthly

S.E.N.T.R.I + Server management & API.

Everything in S.E.N.T.R.I
Zero-trustSecretless authentication: the agent only knows the hostname. agent access
Agent Guardrails (ScopesScopes are approved host groups for S.E.N.T.R.I)
Remote Manager
Admin Console
RESTful API access

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Enterprise

Custom

Compliance-grade automation, priced to your needs.

Everything in Commander
Managed script automation
Integrated script editor
Create and save runbooks
Signed script execution
WinGet software deployment
User audit logs
Q.U.O. HR onboarding app
Priority support

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