Bad Usage Reporting on 3rd Party Extension

Bug Reports
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Right, max mode won’t charge usage based money if you’re below the rate limits. Note though, that with Max mode you can hit rate limits faster because it allows unlimited context (up to the size of the model’s context window)

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22

How exactly are these rate limits calculated? Is it based on context?

23

Zack, this is something very important to document clearly. Please provide feedback to your team that this needs to be made more obvious. My frustration with this new pricing has dropped substantially with this new information.

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24

Yeah, by default all Pro and Ultra plans are unlimited requests with rate limits (burst rate limits and local rate limits; burst rate limits can be dipped into at any time for particularly bursty sessions but are slow to refill. Local rate limits refill fully every few hours).

If a user uses up both their local and burst limits; their options are:

  1. switch to cheaper models which have higher rate limits
  2. have a usage based price limit set and dip into usage based price (until the next rate limit reset)
  3. upgrade to an ultra plan which has 20x rate limits.
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25

Exactly. The docs at Cursor – Models & Pricing don’t reflect the new pricing model at all.

26

It looks like teams is still on the old model, when are they planning to switch (I have a Pro account for me and Teams acount for ~20 developers)? I need to see how this impacts us based on our costs.

28

Looks like it’s time for a new Ultra plan for the team, I guess…

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29

I dont understand this new pricing model at all. I dont know if I’m being charged…

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@Zackh1998 Thank you for clarifying this. To my knowledge, your post is the only place where this is confirmed for now.

Let me add one comment: it should be clear and transparent to users when they have hit the rate limit, and whether a new request is going to go against usage-based pricing or not.

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I’m not against that, thnks for the response Zack! I like to take my time between prompts, I perform better at a lower frequency.

All in all this seems like an upgrade in favor of the user, and I finnally sprung for usage at the same time, because I am developing a need for the more expensive models.

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Hi, this will be the case. When you hit a rate limit, you will see an error in-app that tells you this, and either suggests you swap to a different model or will offer you to enable usage based pricing.

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