Additional question on claude subscription

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Hi,

Great product, really like it so far. I noticed this question and I am in the same situation, my org pays for a claude pro subscription but I cannot choose another tool that easily.

I was a bit confused by the answer, because so far I have been using cursor by using my anthropic key, so you actually can use cursor with your claude pro account I suppose? However, today I got a message that I ran out of completions.

Given the situation I have two questions:

  1. When the docs mention “completions” does that mean tab completions only? So basically the auto-suggest feature? Do I understand correctly that this is a separate in-house model and therefore in my situation I can use all cursor features except for auto suggest (cmd-k and chat still work)? Are there any other features I am missing now that I ran out of completions?
  2. If I would switch to cursor pro, is there any downside to not using my anthropic account? Would it have the same speed for instance, because I see you have 500 fast requests. Does a call to my current anthropic account count as a fast or slow request?
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Hey, yes, completions is Cursor Tab, and it uses our own model. This feature won’t work with your API keys.

With your API key, you’ll only have access to chat and inline chat (Cmd + K). Other features are available only with a subscription.

If you upgrade to the Pro plan, all Cursor features will work for you. The speed will be the same as with your API key.

Using your API key is equivalent to fast requests in Cursor, so everything will work fine.

I hope I clarified this for you! If you have more questions, feel free to ask.

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Thanks for the swift response. Can you help me understand what things are included in “other features” that I would be missing out on?

If my anthropic key request equals a fast request, doesnt that mean that after 500 request with pro I go back to the slow requests and it would be better to include the anthropic key again whenever I hit 500 requests? (again, I have the anthropic account anyway)

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All the features available in Cursor are described here: Features | Cursor - The AI-first Code Editor
Except for Composer and Composer with Agent, we haven’t added their descriptions yet, but you can check out an overview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAe1IQtHqVU

Regarding the question about requests, yes, when you run out of 500 requests, you’ll be switched to slow requests, and you can use your API key (again, only for chat and inline chat). In this case, you’ll still have all the working features of Cursor, including Cursor Tab, chat, and Composer.