I’m from Latin America, and as you can understand, I can’t afford to pay $200 a month for Cursor. Since the beginning, I always paid the $20 plan — even if I wasn’t very active, I was here from the start, back when the CEO used to reply your messages in the forum you know what I mean.
After the whole pricing mess, I left Cursor. But now I need to work on my stuff again, and while the alternatives are good, a lot of them are having their own issues… and honestly, I don’t have the patience to deal with that right now.
You won, Cursor team.
Can someone explain clearly what the $20/month plan still gives you? I’ve seen all kinds of things online — some say it runs out in two days, others say it lasts longer with certain models, and some even say it keeps charging you more behind the scenes. (Which I can believe — something similar already happened to me past.)
In short, for $20, you can use Cursor comfortably only with the old pricing model. You can write a message to support, and they might apply it to your account. For example, I received some kind of “promo” message after unsubscribing with such a proposal, so you can try that approach.
The current pricing model is now token-based. However, tokens burn very fast for exactly the same effort as before. The Cursor team claims that you can spend tokens worth at least your plan’s price equivalent, or probably more. In my experience, I hit the usage limit for only a few hours at a time, but that’s sufficient for my needs.
Overall, they silently removed the opt-out option even for users who subscribed yearly (which was my case). After a few days of struggling with the support bot Sam, I’m requesting a refund and moving to Windsurf. Only after that did I receive a “switch-to-old-plan” email proposal, but of course, not interested anymore.
thanks to you guys ..they dont respond …i dont know what is happening in cursor team .. god … i just want to work with cloude 3.7 again …but anyways iam going continue finding alternatives … let me try Windsurf