Hi there,
You’re definitely not alone in noticing this – many users have reported the same sudden increase in credit consumption over the past weeks, and it’s not your imagination.
What’s happening:
“Auto” mode is no longer unlimited as of September 15, 2025 (or your next billing cycle after that date). Since you’re on a monthly subscription and we’re now in December, this change has fully kicked in for you.cursor+1
Auto now consumes credits from your monthly allowance at these API rates :cursor
Why it feels sudden:
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The August announcement stated changes would take effect “at your next billing cycle”, so monthly subscribers are only now experiencing the full impactcursor
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Since Cursor 2.0 (late October), Auto has become significantly slower and appears to route more frequently to GPT-5 Codex, which many users find less efficient reddit+2
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Longer response times and more tokens = faster credit burn cursor+1
The solution:
Stop using Auto and manually select a specific model like Claude Sonnet or Composer 1. This gives you much better control over your usage, and for most coding tasks, these models perform just as well (or better) than the current Auto behavior without the unpredictable credit consumption.cursor+1
Many in the community have switched to manual model selection and report much more stable, predictable usage.
Question:
- Have you tried Composer 1 ?