Usually, regular photography lenses are the better choice for stills.

Cine lenses can offer a few benefits for still photography: a very long focus throw can make precise manual focusing easier, and a stepless aperture can enable niche creative effects by changing aperture during an exposure. Parfocal behavior can also help in some action or sports situations.

But for most still photographers, those advantages are minor compared with the downsides. Cine lenses are typically larger, heavier, and slower to use, especially outside controlled studio work. More importantly, still-photo lenses often provide features that are much more useful for photography, such as autofocus and image stabilization.

So unless you specifically need precise manual focus handling or another cine-specific behavior, a cine lens is generally not a meaningful upgrade for still photography. It’s usually paying for video-oriented design rather than a major stills advantage.