So this is much like cloud computing costs, specifically
Database Credits and IOPS:
Credits: In the context of cloud databases, credits often refer to units of consumption that can be used for various activities like compute time, storage, or input/output operations. For example, AWS offers “Burst Credits” for their RDS (Relational Database Service) instances, which allows instances to handle spikes in demand by consuming credits.
IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second): This is a performance measurement used to benchmark the speed of storage devices like SSDs and HDDs. In cloud environments, databases are often provisioned with a certain amount of IOPS to ensure they can handle a specific load of read/write operations.
Generative AI Requests:
Generative AI models, such as those used for vibe coding, often require significant computational resources. These models might rely on databases for storing data, user inputs, or results of AI computations.
When generative AI systems make requests to a database, they can consume IOPS, especially if the requests involve large amounts of data or require high-frequency querying.
The concept of “credits” might also apply if the AI service itself is hosted on a cloud platform that bills based on usage, thus linking the database credit system to the AI’s operational costs.
For $15 the freshly released Warp 2.0 offers 2500 Sonnet 4 requests at 128k context limit. But there are some rate limits probably too. And it’s more of a multi-agents console-based app, with minimal IDE features.
On Cursor I’m on old plan with 500 fast requests and I’m happy with it. It fits my usage pattern since I do less but more context-heavy requests, and new plan doesn’t like big context requests from what I read.
Probably the same as on $20 plan. That was a joke based on $60 plan having 3x more capacity than $20 plan, which is all we know so far.
I got charge for the 1st time yesterday and I hit the rate limit today.
Please could you explain this @danperks, I’m on cursor pro plan for 3 months. Past 2 months I never reach the 500 limit. How I fill all the rate limit within a day?
As an IDE for software development, Cursor’s user scenario involves handling burst requests within short timeframes, which aligns with product iteration cycles. Throttling after just 2 requests clearly kicks pro users out of the game.
And I also need to clarify that last month I hit 500 fast requests and 19$usage based price for using sonnet and gemini thirty days, then this month I switched to new pricing system and hit rate limit and spent 80 dollars in six days.
And the models were laggy, generating few words in minutes 20 percent of the time.
So does Cursor want to be a product used by devs in their daily work or just a toy? Because using it occasionally throughout the month sounds like you guys aren’t aiming to be a daily workhorse like claude code.
I get you guys are probably dealing with a lot of usage strain but you’re at a critical point where people are forming habits on what will be their workflows for years to come.
If I get rate limited all day on your “Pro” plan it’s essentially unusable.
Are people noticing this change since yesterday? Although they’ve said there weren’t any changes, I’m highly suspicious that this change was introduced with the new Pro+ plan.
It’s like offering high-speed internet cheaply, letting everyone stream smoothly for a week, and then intentionally throttling speeds—forcing customers to upgrade to regain their original performance.
I hit the rate limit after only 1 sonnet 4 thinking prompt, it’s ridiculous…!! 500 requests per month was a better option. It is not unlimited; it’s unusable…!!
Cursor has become pretty much unusable for any Agent Chat tasks with new rate limits, every day after handful of requests I get a request limit reached, it creates a bad interruption and worse a really bad feeling about your product. Worse part is total lack of transparency about these rate limits, unlimited part with unknown rate limits is now looking nothing more than just a poorly executed marketing tactic.
I think you are going to loose a lot of customers with this change since other competing IDEs are becoming more attractive now and are a lot more upfront and transparent about their pricing models.
Listen to your customers. It would be a shame to loose you traction now after all you have accomplished so far.
I’ve been using Cursor for over a year, company sponsored. I put up with your buggy app freezing and crashing constantly. Since leaving my job I signed up for Cursor pro a couple of months ago. After the update two days ago I started hitting your rate limit with the same usage. I reluctantly upgraded to the Ultra plan, but I don’t feel good about it. I don’t think your plans provide the correct amount of value. I am now actively working on migrating to one of your competitors.
Cursor could make things a lot more transparent anyway. No little question mark boxes with additional information, just a straight listing of what you get.
