Cursor New Unlimited Update

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Hello Team,

I just want to drop my observation about the new Unlimited agent requests. first of all the idea is great, really good, but trust me it really hasn’t been totally amazing, i really think you guys didn’t give this update much thought and research before executing. secondly, it now feels like i am a free user on a platform being limited aggressively when i am building a project, somehow i really now feel like the 500 request might have been okay, maybe instead of 500 request it would have been increased to 1000 requests and then slow requests. it’s crazy that i have to wait hours like literally hours before i can use my favourite agent to continue my work, to me all other agents are sort of dumb, except for the claude agents, but I don’t know for others, maybe some people might have a different opinion. but now i feel like we pro users are no longer prioritize. you guys have a great product, I don’t know how you guys did it but the claude 4 sonnet agent is amazingly smart on cursor than other platforms/IDE claude 4 sonnet. speaking from experience.

but being hit with aggressive rate limits on claude 4 sonnet, it’s really really too much. honestly before i can ship a proper working project it might take months and months, a whole lot of months.

we know you launched the $200 plan for users who need more aggressive resources, but it shouldn’t affect users who are on the pro plan this much. we are customers too, just because this user has more money to spend for resources doesn’t mean you have to look less on the pro users. i understand there has to be rate limiting to mitigate abuse, but c’mon the rate limits are way too aggressive, I’m honestly surprised some pro users are quite about this.

alright lets say we are being rate limited, there’s no visual representation about how long it will take for someone to be able to work again, no clear explanation.

like “you have been rate limited, try again in the next 7 hours or upgrade to the ultra plan for 20x higher limits”

no just straight up asking for upgrade, no clear explanation, some of you who can afford to pay for the $200 ultra plan might not understand how it feels, i don’t expect you to. but the cursor team should be considerate and also give better transparency about how rate limits works, how long it will take to be recharged, and every other transparency needed. its just that simple.

i just had to vent out my piece of my cause, it’s really frustrating, coding especially when you spend more than 5 prompts telling the agent “No this is not what i asked you to do, pay attention and follow instructions”

so you guys should please understand and be considerate to pro users too, we are paying money too not papers.

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Yeah. Thank you

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Totally agree.

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I’m suffering the same thing… no money to migrate to the ultra plan and no middle ground.
Now I’m being charged per request… but charged absurd amounts… frankly I don’t know what to do.

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100% agree.

I have tried to use claude codenwhen I get rate limited. I had so many mistakes that when I wasnt rate limited, I had claude in cursor fix them. I was then rate limited again.

I would even be ok with slow requests or like you said just knowing when it resets.

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I had to turn my usage-based pricing off as I was up to $50. May not sound like a lot, but when you’re watching pennies, it is.

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I haven’t used cursor for a few weeks, but I’ve been expecting this for a while. These tools are loss leaders, they aren’t making a profit they are growing a market share. A number of professionals have suspected a rug pull might occur, in that costs will rise/requests will get limited.

It’s a nudge from free to $20, now it’s a push to $200.

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I moved to a native CLI solution to avoid these pricing and lag issues. Cursor really needs to get their act together on the pricing and offering a decent package for uninterrupted sonnet 4 class work on a daily basis for 100 USD max. That’s the golden ticket. I wish I could go back to Cursor because the UI is better and the checkpoint management - but I couldn’t deal with the service interruptions anymore. It was too much arbitrary change. The moment they provide clean, full performance daily access I am back.

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absolutely dog ■■■■ to be honest its exactly how you said it , lets say new feature is being done in 100 request in those 100 request at least half of it is to correcting for agent , it must be a bug ,if it isnt then its no brainer to do this update

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Use cursor to build a CLI code agent with a 200 dollar plan in a month. Stop using it then! But yeah dont try to sell it becoz cost of running and maintaining such tools is a lot. You wont be able to make any money unless you also start charging huge.
PS: you need to optimize a lot of LLM api calls to maximize your output with minimum tokens becoz good models like Claude 4 comes at a cost. I am not sure :thinking: if you really would be able to save anything unless you endup hosting the model on some managed infra like AWS

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I agree.

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I’ve been a Cursor user since the beginning but when they started with the heavy throttling, the MAX mode, things started to become very frustrating.
I recently switch to Claude Code with the $100/mo plan and boy, it’s a whole new world. If you can afford it, I’d strongly suggest to try it because it’s really superior. The only thing Cursor does better is the Tab auto completion, but believe me, you won’t be using that at all with Claude Code.

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Totally agree. The sluggish response is making me want to leave. Do you have any alternative products to recommend? Moreover, it is not just the speed—the AI has also become significantly dumber.

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While reading the OP, it reminded that Common People episode from Black Mirror :slight_smile:

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One Brazilian account: the Ultraplan costs a fortune here in Brazil, and those limits hit developers who don’t have that money even harder.

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Maybe unpopular opinion here but, Claude code for those who loves Claude 4, is MUCH better than Claude in cursor. Also I quit cursor a while for lack of transparency and pricing issues… anyway VS code with copilot (you have a generous number of requests) same thing as cursor. Then with Claude code (20 usd) you can do the job. Being caught up in a tool is a mistake.

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Yes the point where I can’t see the limit i had reached and my availability, also Very slow reply on emails , and reading half email and giving reply , like I raised issue on why I cant see the new pricing details, and due to on edu plan , they said you are on old plan , but it shows in am new one , and cant opt out , and very bad , also no other way of support like other than email , for genz or 2000 kids we dont use email , to be fair