I’d like to express that Cursor has become too expensive. It’s a great tool, but the new pricing makes it hard for many independent developers or those from regions with lower purchasing power to afford it. Please consider more affordable or region-based pricing plans.

I’ve tried GPT5.2 and Opus 4.5. They are both great models but very expensive. Grok models should be added back, waiting on 4.2 - Don’t know why 4.1 was never added.

Wow. I’ve been using cursor with sonnet 4.5 for about a week, and I’ve seen a huge uptick in just a few days! A three hour session today for a personal very small app, should not generate $120 worth of tokens!! You must be joking. The output and pricing were very different before upgrading to a larger plan. The requests, similar. I don’t know what type of perks for upgrading. Seems to be quite the opposite, twice the token load and price for very similar requests. Again, one person, three hours, small application… over $120! I’m not building or attempting to refactor the world’s orbit!

[image] Oh well, it used to be better, last time I got almost 200$ from all models, but still it’s not THAT expensive… … [image] Oh…

right?? :joy: cursor must go!!! might as well go back to raw dogging shxt. the essence of creating a solution is being faulted here, one begins to wonder if it is just indians at the backend solving for our prompts, that should explain the exponential token cost….

ignore what the evangelists tell you, something has changed, the cursor team have just chosen to blame it on tokens, same tokens i have been using for the past year? not rocket science….

Same issue here also tried like adding extra $20 bucks to test and nope is so expensive, i will cancel my plan before it renews in 4 days and try windsurf (we use this at work and i use it a lot and only expended 200 requests… using only opus 4.5 thinking….) so thanks cursor you ruined it :slight_smile:

as an update, tried windsurf it become better, and also using antigravity $20 plan you have a refresh of claude every 5 hours, and other for gemini i never reach the limits between both with cursor i used the total of the pro plan with extra 20 on 3 days…

My personal experience is that the cost has suddenly doubled or even tripled. I have been using the Pro version for over a year, with a monthly subscription. It was working fine until November 2025, with $20 automatically deducted each month. By December, in addition to the basic fee, an extra $100 had been spent. This price increase is indeed too steep, a fivefold increase all of a sudden. If this usage continues, it will cost over $100 every month. I have looked at the Pro+ version, but it merely has a proportional increase in usage and price without any discounts. Only those who purchase the $200 version have discounts.

How about actually listing what those “tons of other options” are? So far it appears only Github Copilot and Claude Code seem to come anywhere close to cursors (now deprecated) auto-unlimited usage …

You use claud-4-sonnet for everything? Of course its going to run out fast.. 1.5m tokens can go quickly as its thinking about everything in the background

Cursor is expensive

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valentinoPereira (Nvidia RTX Pro 6000) March 4, 2026, 11:17am 308

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Cursor is expensive

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