I’m pretty active user of Cursor for about 9-10 months now. I was on the $20 Pro subscription and usually also paid about $10-40 on top in usage-based charges. It became my habit to watch the usage statistics—just interesting to see how many points or dollars this or that model or kind of job eats.
Yesterday I was very surprised when I saw that this month I already spent about $10 usage-based. It was less than a week, and I felt I didn’t yet come close to spending the 500 included requests. Also I noticed that I don’t see any statistics any more on how many included requests I spent.
I came to this forum for answers and was pretty puzzled by mentions of new pricing system, burst limits, local limits, etc. Excuse me, what?!!
I went back to my account, found how to Opt Out from new pricing, and the old UI with Included Requests counter appeared again. It shows I spent just 20/500 requests so far—but already spent $9 usage-based!
I’m absolutely OK with prices to grow and limits to lower. I appreciate that Cursor actually spends more on LLMs than we pay to them and effectively subsidize our work with agents. And these $10 or even $100 extra are cheap compared to the contribution Cursor gives to my day-to-day job. But I really dislike the attitude Cursor team showed here to their customers.
Why, as an active paying customer, didn’t I get any e-mail from Cursor with clear explanation of upcoming changes? Why must I find on my own that now I have to pay x * N (N > 2) compared to what I’m used to pay? And how to predict now what will I spend?
This is extremely frustrating and disappointing, guys. I think the best thing Cursor team can do now is admit the mistake and release very clear explanation about what’s happening with pricing.