So, here’s what I understand of the new pricing structure:
- Pro users get unlmited use of any models non-max mode
- Max mode is only usage based, I get no credits per month and must pay token based
- Pro users will hit some as yet published rate limit and get throttled/stopped, the only way to know is to actually hit it
- By paying 10x for Ultra I get the same as Pro but my rate limit is 20x Pro, however, we don’t know what that rate limit so I don’t know what the value is
- If I get slowed down my rate limit as a pro user, the only way to deal with it is to pay 10x as much
- Ultra users still have to pay usage based fees for Max mode and also get no credit
- Teams users are basically the same as Pro users
- Background tasks are only available in max mode, so whether you are a Pro user, teams user or Ultra user, you still pay the same amount extra
My god, I have brought my whole company to Cursor but now I’m looking for a way out. Max mode is so much better and now we lose our credits for it. I don’t know why anyone would choose Ultra, high end users would want to use Max mode all the time but get no extra credit on Ultra. It’s really not clear the benefit because you can’t figure out if you’ve hit your rate limit or not, when you will and what limit it will be?
Is there something I am missing or misunderstanding? A smart thing would have been to give the Ultra users unlimited Max mode.
I wasn’t looking at Claude Code but now I will need to explore it. This pricing is really very confusing and not very good.