Free version is fast and responsive, but Pro requires waiting—what's the business logic behind Cursor's approach?

[deanrie]

Hey, here is the official information about this:

Slow Pool Information

Hello! Wanted to give some details on slow pool wait times and why they’ve recently increased a bit… Anthropic Capacity We’re working with Anthropic to scale up Sonnet traffic. At the moment we’re in a capacity crunch and Anthropic cannot sustain more TPM (tokens per-minute), which is hurting the slow pool. Newer Token-Hungry Features For features like agent, context windows are larger. This means we hit capacity limits faster on the slow pool and the slow pool can sustain less traffic at the …