Free gpt 5 is over

Describe the Bug

It was stated that gpt 5 would be free for a week and it would have no limits, but in the end I see exactly the opposite.

Steps to Reproduce

choose any gpt 5 model and try to write to it

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.1.5 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: ef5eeb47a684b4c217dfaf0463aa7ea952f8ab90
Date: 2025-06-21T05:31:17.701Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.17763

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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same here – it is being counted towards my monthly usage limit

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You don’t seem to understand what I’m talking about at all. My limits ran out a long time ago. But when gpt 5 came, I used it endlessly throughout the day. Then, for fun, I changed it to sonnet 4 and a notification about the limits popped up. But when returning to gpt 5, it also appears there now.

Chill bro. The issue is quite similar and there are multiple people complaining about the same thing.

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Hey, please check this:

Question for Enterprise users though - does it means that API cost will take precedence over the current system of requests ? And as such we will be also turned into token-consuming ?

I’ve been using it in CLI but If I need to burn API tokens it may change quite drastically.

Let me get this straight. You spent the equivalent of $760+ while you are riding a free for one year Student plan and you hit a limit (which you were not supposed to) and you come across as frustrated and angry at Cursor that you can’t keep plugging away endlessly while you are over using this resource to the impediment of the rest of us who are getting more lag.

Just because its free its not cool to hammer the system without any consideration for others who are also using who are now experiencing slower responses. If you are paying and providing money so that Cursor can expand their operations in line with their usage then great we all benefit from expanded peak usage. But when you are free and you do this to such a degree things get rationed and performance suffers.

I think Cursor messaging needs to include an asterisk in there next to anything that says free or unlimited etc… to say that users in the top 1% of use for a particular model may be capped if their usage is determined to be disproportionately degrading performance for other users so that you know that overuse may get you capped and you have a backup plan or are more conservative in your use cases.

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Well said. I wish Cursor would do away with anything free in all fairness. It just thrashes the system and makes the pro user experience worse.

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I changed 35k lines of code for free, this dude here must have been over the rooftops to hit the limit :laughing:

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