I Finally Canceled My Cursor Subscription

After having my plan forcibly changed and not being able to switch back to the old one, and after dealing with a lot of frustration and disappointment, I decided to cancel as soon as my subscription expired.

I’ve now moved to a Chinese competitor, and honestly, my workflow has never been smoother. I can code all day long without interruptions.

Sure, they apply token limitations — but it’s the model itself (Sonnet-4) that fetches the references intelligently. To keep things flowing and maintain quality, I also use Gemini, thanks to its larger context window. I use it to analyze and break down tasks, which I then send to Sonnet-4 just to execute — and that’s been working surprisingly well.

I constantly update my documentation with the current state of each module and create mini-tasks packed with context. Lately, I’ve solved coding problems using a single prompt several times in a row.

I can easily spend 10+ hours a day just vibing in code, testing and refining flows across three different SaaS projects I’m working on at once — so leaving Cursor honestly felt liberating.

To be clear, Cursor is still a great tool — especially for those who can afford it. Its quality is still superior to most options out there.

But until they improve their pricing (or until my SaaS projects start generating results :sweat_smile:), I probably won’t be back anytime soon…
Well — maybe I’ll try Claude Code first. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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just like to know if this is a subversion technique.

Pretty sure any post that mentioned vibe coding a SaaS is just troll at this point

I tried Trae, its horrible, its exceptionally sluggish, the model instructions are severely modified from my testing. I bought $3 sub to test it and just cancelled it.

I also canceled my Cursor subscription yesterday.

I think a lot of options out there are good, what really got me on cursor is the “unlimited” requests. In my line of work I really need as many requests as possbile. Unfortuantley the only subsitutes to Cursor atm are really bad or aren’t unlimited. If only Cursor could lock in.

Hi, while we appreciate users sharing their thoughts and opinions, both positive and negative, this post is not constructive to the discussion and reads as an attempt to promote other tools.

We are always happy to field any questions on pricing in our Pricing Megathread, but mentions of other tools and software without constructive discussion about Cursor itself is not appropriate for this forum.

For now, I have unlisted and locked this thread.