Why are we paying $20, what’s the point now?
$20 grants you access to 500 premium requests.
Right now, in addition to that, you still get access to slow requests. Just not with the latest models, which have only been released in the last 72 hours, and are only being restricted due to limits imposed at the provider level.
Cursor as a business can not operate if their supplier just bricks all models and still charges for access that doesnt work. It does NOT work even with usage based pricing enabled.
Cursor operates with multiple suppliers and many models, including:
- Proprietary models such as Anthropic and OpenAI
- Open source models hosted on their own compute, such as DeepSeek models
Cursor does not “charges for access that doesn’t work.”. This is a disproportionate exaggeration of the current situation.
What’s currently happening is that free users cannot access the latest model that was released in the last 72 hours due to restrictions at the model provider level.
You still have access to many other capable models from other providers, as well as the same models you had access to last week, while this temporary issue is resolved.
Please see Claude 3.7 + GPT 4.5 - now available in Cursor! for updates.