Cursor changed the Additional API usage recently?

It’s very disappointing, even though I am a 4 month continuous user of Cursor Ultra, paying $200 every fu*king month, and still I did not get even $1 extra. Earlier, I used to get $100 extra, so $500 worth of credit at $200; that was totally worth it, and that’s why I spent credits in similar way this time aswell. I estimated in the same way, and hence I used 100%, even though a few days were left, because I thought it will continue; however, it stopped and started using on demand. That’s very irritating and not good. I feel like I got cheated.

Image for reference (After on-demand usage, i manually disabled it)

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Yeah, it’s not worth it anymore. They’ve also put limits on auto mode.

Yea, no more freebies.

Yeah I made similar threat recently. They removed it, kinda. You’re now stuck with using Auto+Composer “for free”, but even that within limits.

Though I believe in your case you haven’t used just 200$, you used 400$.

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They even mention it here:

So Pro gets +0$ free. Pro Plus gets +10$ free. And ultra still gets +200$ free, which is close to what it was before afaik.

This isn’t my point. Earlier it was $500 total, now it’s effectively $400. I planned my usage assuming the old limit would continue, so I used credits accordingly, and then it suddenly stopped.

The problem isn’t what’s written now, it’s that the change happened without any clear notice. If I had known, I would’ve managed my usage differently.

When was it $500? I have heard $400 for a long time. I am thinking maybe they used to give you an extra $100 every month, but that extra amount was never guaranteed. It’s disappointing that it changed.

Exactly. Extra was never gauranteed however this time you know how much they gave me extra? not even 1 cents. :frowning:

Yes regardless it would be nice to have a clear log somewhere of all changes like these, small and big. Their changelog / blog posts don’t really do it well.

Why are you p1ssed? You get free compute and (a lot of extra) work done. This won’t last forever.

He is saying he no longer gets any free compute. That he has a hard limit at $400. Unless you are referring to the Auto/Composer usage which can be used after the $400 limit.

It may be because they introduced the Auto/Composer usage allowance as well, so maybe they are thinking that once you hit your $400, you would just use Auto/Composer which maybe they give you like $100 of that. Of course Auto/Composer are not as good of models as some of the API ones, but maybe that is Cursor’s logic in where the “extra” usage went.

WTF, i got 0 free extra credit, not even a cent.

Its not like that, for premium models it was $100 extra every fkin month since very long (5-6 month).

In smaller plans ($20) my friend who uses smaller plan still getting almost $20 extra. However I got $0 extra even when I am on $200 plan. Doesn’t that sound irritating?

Look, I value my time and for me time is money. Why would i use smaller models who could have potential to waste my time then opus or gpt which would give me better result.

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Did this start when they introduced the Auto/Composer separate usage allotment?