Hey, sorry to hear you are unhappy with our new pricing. Unfortunately, as models have improved, they have also gotten better at reading more of your code, and writing more code in response.
This meant the old, 500 request usage plan wasn’t sustainable for the future! While each request is more expensive to execute, the value the user gets is much higher too.
To reflect this, we switched to a simpler system, now giving you a $ amount of usage each month, which is always at least the same as your plan amount, but most likely more.
This does mean that heavy users of the most expensive models, like Claude 4 Sonnet, may get less than 500 requests each month. However, you can also now get more than 500 requests in a month from cheaper models, including Gemini 2.5 Pro!
In v1.4 which we just released, we’ve added an in-app tracker for your usage to help you know how much you are consuming as you work!
The best recommendation I can give is to give other models and configurations a try. It can be tempting to always use a model with thinking mode enabled, or to always use the best models. However, we’ve found that the vast majority of requests to models in Cursor could’ve been answered by a cheaper model just as well, if not quicker!
We are continuing to work on efficiency to hopefully make things even better in the future, but I do apologise if we have worsened things for you with this change!