I asked how I could take advantage of the annual option on Ultra to avoid the charging on Auto for a year, just like everyone else who is switching.
I was told too bad. Ultra subscribers aren’t allowed to do that.
Way to make me just leave.
Who said that? So they’re saying if you subscribed to Ultra for a year today, the unlimited Auto until your next renewal would not apply? This is an odd thing for them to say to someone consider Ultra for a year. Sometimes they’ve had their AI customer service say dumb things in regards to this 9/15 pricing change. I bet @danperks could clear things up on this. Even though he already has here and the blog post was pretty clear and makes no exceptions for what individual plans.
You have also been complaining about Cursor for the past few days, so I am a little hesitant to believe your statement with full faith, and am suspecting you are looking for reasons to be dissatisfied with Cursor and may be willfully misinterpreting something to satisfy your overall dislike of Cursor. Could you provide a screenshot of what they said in regards to “…too bad. Ultra subscribers aren’t allowed to do that.”
The screenshot would be informative to others who are considering renewing.
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Asked the AI right on Cursor’s website and it confirms that you would get unlimited Auto for a year.
Happy to substantiate. You’re right, I’ve been upset lately. That’s no reason to doubt the veracity of my post, though.
Looks like what you posted and what I got back in email contradict.
Yet when I go to buy Ultimate yearly, the option isn’t there. So if it used to be, add this to the list of things Cursor just removed without much fanfare.
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Oh so there just isn’t an option to even buy an annual Ultra. I see. So yea that email makes sense then. I have not heard anyone point this out yet, so its good to know. I wonder what Cursor’s reasoning is for not offering Ultra annual plans.
I have Ultra monthly now. I’ve had it for a few months. Now that Auto’s going to go away as a free option, and buying yearly would get at least a year free, I’m strongly considering doing that. Even with no discount ($2400!), it might be worth it to continue my work.
But that appears to have been rug-pulled.
You think they would prefer the cash flow and offer an annual Ultra plan.
Just a note, I have noticed that gpt-5-mini does not count towards my monthly usage, so I wonder if that will continue after 9/15, which is basically an unlimited Auto.
I guess Cursor never implied that Ultra plans would get a year of unlimited Auto if it was always a monthly plan, so not entirely a rug pull, more like people on the forums hyped it up as if everyone could lock in unlimited Auto for a year, but in reality only Pro plans could.
Grok-code is so cheap, along with gpt-5-mini (unofficially free for now it seems), I wonder if that could replace your unlimited Auto needs basically with like $5/mo of usage from them.
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It is just not viable. Everyone wants free unlimited usage for life. The company just cannot make money doing that.
My thought is this: Do you want Cursor to even be an option a year from now? A competitor in, hopefully, a competitive space, not one that is utterly dominated by one single monster big tech option (i.e. OpenAI…blech!)?
The company needs to make money. Either, make money or die. I’d rather they not die, as right now, Cursor is the only game in town for certain agentic coding things. The space is competitive, so hopefully it won’t remain that way for too long, but if Cursor vanishes from the space due to not having a viable business plan (i.e. giving aways usage for free!!!), then the market will become less competitive…
Just sayin…
That logic makes no sense, though, in light of the fact that they’re offering yearly subscriptions, right now, with unlimited Auto, to Pro members, but not Ultra.
They’re offering it to members who pay LESS.
How do you explain that?
Hi everyone! The situation is pretty easy to explain.
Cursor has a fairly customer‑friendly refund policy, and they also do their best to preserve the benefits of older subscribers, even after making major changes to the plans.
The challenge, though, is that the pricing terms change quite often, and that can trigger a wave of subscription cancellations. There’s also a big difference between refunding someone $200 for a yearly plan and refunding $2000 — one is manageable, the other can wreck budget planning.
Right now, the Ultra plan offers $400 worth of usage. In the past, though, it included 10k requests. From today’s perspective, that looks incredibly generous. If someone had locked in that yearly Ultra plan and kept all those original perks, it could easily become a nightmare for Cursor’s finances.
If people are willing to pay for Ultra, don’t give them free stuff that they would otherwise just pay for. That is their logic I assume. $16/mo Pro plan is basically their gateway plan to get cheap/hesitant people hooked and reliant on Cursor so they eventually buy Ultra. So it makes sense Pro is a bit more attractive. They just want your money.
@Murgur I agree. Refunding a wave of Pro vs a wave of Ultra plans is a huge difference.