[image] I have multiple single shot requests that are costing me $15 ~ $18 a request… I understand I am using opus 4.6 using MAX but it used to not be more than $0.80 ~ $1.5 per request..now it’s 10x ? Is this normal? A bug?

You were doing 10M token requests with opus for $1.5? Can you hover over the larger requests and show the token breakdown? My Auto requests are like 99% cache reads. I wonder what yours are. [image] Scenario A — 90% cached Suppose the 10M tokens are: 9M cached input 0.5M new input 0.5…

Thanks this is useful. So are those prices (roughly) accurate how they calculate? I’m not sure how many token, but the requests were essentially the same scale (obviously that doesn’t mean it didnt fetch/used much more input tokens). All I meant was, the more i am paying this week, the more expens…

Hover over the tokens and it should show you the breakdown. Yes those examples should roughly equate to how Cursor charges per request. This is from their website . [image] It would be worth comparing them to last weeks token usage and breakdown. Maybe the requests in general are using differen…

This was the $18.40… i’m being charged for cache read or what?.. no way having 20,079 output should cost that much right? [image]

Yea this doesn’t add up. Should be like $8 at most. Breakdown by % of cost Cache read: ~89% ($6.94) Output tokens: ~6% ($0.50) Cache write: ~4% ($0.35) Input tokens: ~0% There has to be something else going on. Do these requests have to be “MAX”, maybe “MAX” is causing other charge…

Based on @y4my4my4m ’s screenshot, Max Mode is enabled! [image] y4my4my4m: [image] When using Max Mode, requests are twice as expensive when input exceeds 200k tokens, so I think the costs are largely expected here (if you double the manual calculations, you arrive at the number shown in the…

Where is the pricing of Max Mode explained? I don’t see much about it on the pricing page . Is it really as simple as 2x normal cost?

Just curious, what is to stop a generation from costing someothing like $250 ~ 350 in one request? Say if it can store cache in the millions. What are the limits? If I leave it running for a long plan, many features, etc. Can it just keep going up indefinitely?

You have to hover over the (!) icon on each model, it shows descriptions about legacy models and 200k+ token pricing. I think Claude’s own pricing page also uses the same pricing method. Though I feel like we need some kind of limiter or cost reminder per process, because the fact that it can cost m…

[image] Anthropic just announced 1M context GA at standard pricing for Opus 4.6 & Sonnet 4.6, when will Cursor reflect this? Help Thanks for flagging! We’ve already updated our pricing to reflect Anthropic’s new standard 1M rates, which no more 2x multiplier ab…

$20 for a single request

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