Hey team,
I just got the email saying “Composer 1 is now available and free to try in Cursor for a limited time.”
But when I opened Cursor, the model wasn’t available for free - it still required credits.
Could you please clarify what “free to try” actually means?
Thanks!
Yep just tested it and it’s not free, it was not free during the cheetah beta period, it’s strange timing. Paid → Paid → Free is not the normal flow.
Hey there,
I’m on the PRO plan and already hit my monthly limit last month — before Composer 1 was even released.
Today I received an email saying “Composer 1 is now available and free to try in Cursor for a limited time.”
Naturally, I got excited to finally test it… but when I opened Cursor, I was immediately blocked by the “You’ve hit your monthly limit” message. There’s no way to try Composer 1 unless I increase my spend limit.
So even though the email says it’s free to try, that doesn’t apply if your existing limit is already used up — meaning, for many paying PRO users, it’s not actually free or even accessible.
That feels misleading. If something is advertised as free to try, it should work for everyone, regardless of plan usage. Or at least the message should clarify: “free within your remaining monthly budget.”
I’d really appreciate if Cursor could either
– clarify the messaging, or
– give every user a few actual free turns with Composer 1 so we can experience it before deciding if it’s worth upgrading.
Same here
Hey all - looking into an issue here!
Hey! Thanks for the reports, we found an issue where if you are at 100% or over your current usage cap, the free credits won’t apply. We’ll have this fixed shortly.
yup, at max 100% and can’t use Composer-1, so this will be nice!
will we have to “update” or simply restart cursor?
I’m not at 100% but i’ve been trying it and it’s jacking up the money. It’s pretty expensive. Would be nice if it was free for a while. So i really hope this is the case, just tested it and it still doesn’t say included yet
I’m not at my limit, and just checked my usage dashboard, and each composer1 request is costing me. So I don’t think it’s just at a 100% bug.
Grok Code Fast is also free, but there is a cost to it regardless. So I think they show the value of the API usage regardless of whether it’s free or not.
THey do but it says ‘included’ next to it when it’s free , which the composer doesn’t say
I am on the Pro Plus plan, I have used less than 50% of my usage limit and I haven’t received any email and I still get billed for the Composer. Is it free only for a certain pool of users?
That’s not free, that’s false advertising and fraud
Honestly, you should not waste your time. The model is blazing fast in delivering unusable code. It’s just like the SWE 1.5 from Windsurf. They are simply training on top of an open-source model, possibly from z.ai or a similar source, but this is far from being a truly frontier model.
In fact, I use it to handle some simple problems and fix some bugs. Honestly, its performance is acceptable.
I’m on the Ultra plan and when I us Composer 1 it shows up in usage and it seems the cost comes out of the Ultra usage (aka not free)
I think the problem is still ongoing.
Same here on both my personal and wokr pro plans
