Explaining the Rate Limits — Your “Unlimited” Plan Is Actually Limited

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Clarifying Our Pricing | Cursor - The AI Code Editor

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I came across this information in an official Cursor Twitter post.
To summarize: a company with $500M in MRR had a communication failure. Let’s be honest — they probably went a little too far in the marketing. :sweat_smile:

Here are the real limits — clearly defined:

  • Using Auto mode doesn’t count against your usage,

  • But let’s face it: Sonnet is always the best option for serious development.

So yes, Sonnet is “unlimited”… if your money is unlimited too.

But hey — these barriers won’t last forever.
It’s only a matter of time before we see new models trained and available at more accessible prices. And when that happens, competitors will start offering truly affordable options.

That said, don’t get me wrong: the Cursor team built an amazing editor — something that could really change the way many developers work.
The real issue lies with these “mercenary” models and how they’re priced.

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You call Cusror an “Amazing IDE” I literally restart it 30 times in an 8 hour shift.

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Skill issue, I’ve never had performance-related issues with Cursor

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You’re also probably excited about mobile features.

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In all seriousness I’m experiencing a very very annoying bug where if I reference @statemachine in .go file it crashes. Its something in their code I’m sure. Its highly annoying considering I like to use this tag in my code for my own idiomatic tendencies. No IDE you pay for should behave this way, hell not even a free ide should behave this way.

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I have no idea how to use the mobile features and don’t plan on it - I barely know how to program so the LAST thing I’ll be doing is vibe-prompting from an interface where I can’t even see the files.

As for your issue with Cursor, has anyone else had that issue with statemachine? I can’t find anything on it. How sure are you its not a hardware-issue on your machine? Is it reproduceable?

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Well it just started happening with the most recent update, so maybe no-one has encountered my particular edge case. The only stable version I can use which is kind of nerfed is < 1.0 on up to date Ubuntu. Its absurd for them to call themselves > 1.0 .

This is definitely not my hardware, why would an IDE behave this way. I’m going back to avante I don’t have time to do free debugging for a company that lies and defrauds its customers.

Going back to good ol open source: GitHub - yetone/avante.nvim: Use your Neovim like using Cursor AI IDE!

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