Cursor subscription or openai api?

[sansinner]

What is the advantage of paying for the course subscription instead of paying for the openai api?

[daaniyaan]

if you use a lot, the cost of using your own API key will be much more than $20 a month imo.
but you need to test and see what is your OWN use case.

[kian]

how exactly does cursor offer their services for so cheap

[truell20]

How does Cursor use ChatGPT for so cheap?

We use OpenAI’s reserved capacity option. This gives us a set of dedicated servers that only go to Cursor traffic which 1) drastically improves the caching behavior of our prompts 2) means tokens don’t mean much to us for pricing, just the time it takes to process a request and 3) effectively gives a volume discount.

[jasondainter]

Ive been using cursor a few days. Using the Open AI key I’m up to about 15 USD already and have used it a “fair” amount but not too excessively. So I can certainly concur there paying 20 USD a month to Cursor is well worth it (and which I now do!).

[victorsalles]

I have just recently paid for GPT4 though OpenAI’s website, a decision I now deeply regret after discovering the API usage is accounted for different from the website’s usage, and also after reading the pricing benefits of paying for Cursor directly, I convinced.
Now my question is: When paying though Cursor, will I still have access to GPT4 though their website and other integrations (e.g. MacGPT) or is this license Cursor-only?

[unity_gamedev]

@victorsalles

When paying though Cursor, will I still have access to GPT4 though their website

Like ChatGPT?
I don’t think so, its a totally different company

[WishBorn]

cursor only since you don’t get access to GPT-4 directly.

[daaniyaan]

but he can use the chat. won’t be as clean as chatgpt but it still kinda works.

[GhostKiller]

what do you mean by kinda? Is gpt4 in the chat not the same model as gpt4 in chatgpt? So as long you are using it mainly on your pc, it should be the same right?

[daaniyaan]

i haven’t test it deeply so can’t really response.
you need to see how it is for you own use case.
you have to use this button to ask the question without using he context (current open file).

[FinDevAI]

It’s worth it to have both. I have an OpenAI API key, and went for the Cursor PRO account. Obvisously Anthropic has the best model for coding but I like other features providied by GPT-4o-mini, including producing documention for code, vector stores etc. GPT-3.5 has been pretty good with debuging both flagship LLM’s output on occaision too.