Hey everyone, I think it’s important to address something critical here. Cursor’s primary revenue comes from subscriptions, and the current pricing model—offering 500 messages for $20—is justified by the high costs of using Claude Sonnet and OpenAI APIs. However, DeepSeek has completely disrupted …

I would love to have option that user can select if the they don’t mind using direct API call to deepseek server (using our own API key) because currently they are more stable and faster than cursor self-hosted.

They don’t use their own, they use fireworks as a provider (I guess they have concern about using deepseek api). Deepseek R1 is performing much better than sonnet 3.5 so far, I have been playing with it and it’s great. I switch back to sonnet and it feel dumb compared to it. I think deepseek R1 is …

if they make any money off the 40% requests they need to seriously reconsider that I just blew through $20 of fast o1 and got almsot nothing done but deepseek is doing it better for free or am i just idk singularity

Deepseek could solve something else, which is Claude 1022 getting unbearably lazy. When using it through Claude.ai I notice it a little bit, but through Cursor it somehow seems to compound or something, I really can’t take it anymore. I just cancelled my subscription. One of the issue with R1 may b…

youre using R1 in chat or composer?

imho, it should be “near” term… I have already stopped using Cursor since I hit the 500 queries on the first week of the month; with DeepSeek, I can use Cline or Aider, for a fraction of the price and get similar or better quality… I’m willing to pay Cursor for the value it brings (the features), …

I’m a retired mathematician, retooling to use AI to support my research. New to the party, I’m not finding the advice I need to extend AI’s reach, so I’m making many experiments. Which language is the best choice for parallel code, balancing its ability to shape my thought, the ease which which AI c…

I have no idea how you guys (who are pro devs of course) can spend 500 requests “almost immediately”. It could be if you request one very tiny thing from llm with a single request, but it is not the Cursor’s problem. I work with cursor every day professionally and it is “good” if I reach 300-400 mon…

The cost is too high based solely on how many queries it takes to get it to “not do something I have explicitly asked it not to do.”

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younio (Y) January 26, 2025, 4:16pm 11

I have just come across this thread and I posted something similar: I asked DeepSeek-R1 about Cursor's pricing model

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