New Pro Plan — Need More Transparency on Rate Limits

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Hi Cursor Team,

First of all, thank you for your great work — Cursor has been an essential part of my workflow.

However, I have some concerns about the new Pro plan structure, especially regarding rate limits. I’d like to explain my perspective and hopefully get some clarity.

:speech_balloon: Why this matters:

I typically work for 6+ hours straight without a single break. When I hit a rate limit, I don’t know how long I’ll need to wait. That uncertainty — even a 5–10 minute delay — can break focus and hurt productivity.

:stop_sign: Suggested Alternatives Aren’t Ideal:

I often hear:

“You can switch to the 500 premium request plan!”
“You can enable usage-based pricing!”

But those don’t really solve the problem. I’m looking for:

  • Truly unlimited usage or
  • Clear and predictable limits with specific cooldown times.

If I hit a 1-hour limit, how long is the wait? 5 minutes? 30 minutes? I don’t know — and it’s frustrating when it happens in the middle of deep work.

Also, switching to lower-tier models mid-project isn’t viable. It can affect the consistency and quality of the results, especially on critical tasks.

:loudspeaker: What I’m Asking:

Please consider being more transparent about:

  • How rate limits are calculated
  • What the cooldown periods are

The current documentation is too vague, and I see a lot of other users on the forum asking similar questions. A detailed breakdown — even if it’s approximate — would really help power users make the right choice between Pro and Ultra.

Thank you again for building such a powerful tool, and I hope this feedback is helpful!

Best regards,
A Cursor user who just wants to work without guesswork

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Yes, I share your sentiment exactly. Without complete transparency, consumers are left with unresolved doubts about the product’s usage. We still don’t know when or under what circumstances the so-called ‘Rate limits’ are triggered. Yet, all we hear from your administrators are mechanical responses like ‘You can revert to the old plan’ or ‘You can switch to Usage-based pricing.’ These formulaic replies offer absolutely no explanation for your current business strategy.

As one of your consumers, I believe I have both the right and the obligation to understand any information regarding the product’s usage from your company, rather than these vague and unclear explanations!

To some extent, this constitutes a violation of consumer privacy laws.

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The new plan just doesn’t get the job done! 3-5 requests and then just a gigantic waiting time for a response. I don’t see the point of using Cursor anymore.

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I totally understand you. I don’t use Cursor actively every day but when I do I can make 20+ requests a day. So am concerned about the same things. I read that they don’t disclose the details to avoid abuse of their plans. But having at least some indication of approaching rate limit would be nice. Also, I hope they have some internal “burst credit” system that can accumulate credits for intensive coding sessions. If they do I don’t see the harm of showing burst credits status to the user - AWS has been doing it for a while for their burstable CPU instances.

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I was told my usage rate limiting would reset after a few hours, I’m now on hour 5 and I’m STILL unable to use claude-4-sonnet. I use about 10 request 5 hours ago, so not sure why I’ve been rate limited.

I think they’re new business strategy is to get everyone onto the $200/month plan. Not happening. I think I’m going to cancel.

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Just sat down to get some work done, first in the morning, maybe 5 requests in I have been rate limited with no information, details, or recourse. This isn’t going to work in its current form. I’m fine with rate limits like Claude does for its $100 tier but at least you have enough runway to get a job done and go take a break. I don’t know how to manage this at all now. I even have money in the tank for overage usage and it’s not going to use that? Very confused here.

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I hope some moderator/staff can see this post and answer our questions…

Thank y’all :heart_on_fire: If this post can be “Top”, Maybe staffs will be more transparency about our questions and they can take care of us!

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I am waiting for a couple more days to see if there will be more transparency and if moving back to legacy will make more sense. I am not moving to 200$/m as I already am a Pro user with around +100$ on demand. If none of this make sense I am considering moving back to windsurf

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I don’t know how this happened but I need to heavily complain:
today I started using cursor as usual and all of a sudden, I had spent much more money than normal.

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the same requests had cost me 0.75 credits per request before, which was far less.
this now was about $8 in 2.5 hours coding ($40 per day at this rate in my case).
I am totally not fine with this.
I opted out of the new pricing.

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also is this true?

you guys more than doubled the pricing for Claude 4 Sonnet Thinking in the old prizing model?

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… all this while at the same time saying that your new pricing model is only possible due to close collaboration with the model providers?

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claude 4 's discount is over

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do you have more information about this? I never read something about a discount.

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see the pinned topic .Claude 4 - End of Discounted Rate

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The Claude Thinking model, available since version 0.47, has always cost 2 requests. Today, we announced the end of the discount.

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can you please provide transparency to the new pro plan pricing model and rate limits?

@deanrie

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I need rate limits transparency. I’m only able to perform 6 requests to claude4 every 3 hours, this is not cool. What’s the rate limits for the Ultra plan?

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107 requests per 8 hours without any problem.

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I’m very confused as to what this means with your new rules for the Pro-plan. It says unlimited, but it still costs requests?

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I was with this new plan and it hadn’t charged me since yesterday, but all of a sudden, with all the limits, it charged me more than $1 per request for Claude 4 Sonnet and I went over the limit I set. Now I owe more money than the limit I set. When before I charged 2 cents per request for Claude 4 Sonnet, now it’s over $1.64, so I reached that famous limit in the documentation that says “what do you have to wait a few hours”? How many are “a few hours” really?

Edit: i got "You’ve hit the rate limit for your Pro plan. Upgrade to Ultra for near unlimited use, set a Spend Limit for overages, or switch to auto "

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I prefer to see the request left .when I saw I used too much I will slow down.

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