Up until last week I could see my past token usage on my billing info page, and it was also telling me in $ how much it would have cost me. Currently I’m on unlimited Auto until the next billing cycle, when they will start charging for Auto too. (And from which point I am leaving the platform, I can’t afford it.)
From the billing page I could easily find out that my usage in Auto would cost me like $800 each month, even if I chose the Ultra plan for $200 and get $400 included usage for it. I would still end up paying $600 on top of that, because my tokens in Auto mode were used up very very fast. I even had some email exchange with Cursor support about it, I told them that in C++ about 90% of my requests fail, break something that is working, or make very basic mistakes. I tried to make them understand that when I have to retry a request 13 times to be successful once, these prices are unjustifiable. I also explained to them how I managed to figure out my future costs for Auto mode.
It seems the conclusion for them was not to change something to the pricing, to make it fairer, no. Instead they decided to hide the “potential” cost in $ from the Auto usage, if you are still on free Auto - so that you won’t be able to see how much you are actually using.
I am really curious to see if there’s going to be enough enterprise clients and highly paid contractors who will be able to afford to cash out $1-2000 every month for cursor usage.
I noticed this change shortly after I posted about my usage on the forum with screenshots to this exact area in the dashboard with my queries about the pricing.
I agree it was better to see the real cost of the “free” auto mode but I guess they hid it to reduce confusion.