Credit grant makes usage and cost impossible to track

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Hey there,

I am part of an organization that received a credit grant for Cursor, it’s great and we would love to be able to use it more. However, it’s pretty much impossible to track our usage and how many credits individual developers are using, all request we make are marked as free. We reached out to Cursor support (who were very helpful and responsive luckily) and they said:

“The credit grant absorbs all your usage before it hits the on-demand billing threshold, which is why every session shows as “Free” and on-demand shows $0. The usage isn’t actually free; it’s being covered by your credit balance.”

Additionally, the customer support rep mentioned:

“the dashboard doesn’t currently break down per-session costs when a credit grant is active.”

This is functionally preventing us from using Cursor as much as we would like to because we don’t have great guardrails or visibility on usage. A workaround we could technically do is export individual runs and approximate spend based on the pricing page but this is an extremely cumbersome task.

We really want to be able to use Cursor more and deeply integrate it into our work, having better visibility over usage and spend when we have a credit grant would be extremely beneficial.

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Hey @emilio

Thanks for calling this out. This is something we’re tracking!

Are you thinking about this more from a visibility point of view, or adding limits (only allow a user to use x amount of a credit grant?)

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Hey @Colin, thank you for taking a look.

It would be for both, visibility is most important. We don’t explicitly add limits to any engineers yet (because we want to let them experiment as much as they can), but knowing individual spend would help us manage the resources more fairly across the team and would empower individual users to integrate it deeper into their flow.

Honestly, before we had the credit grant, it was really easy to see this with your current UI! Cost per run per user. If that could be enabled even with credit grants, it would be huge.