I’m on Pro Plus ($60/mo).
Your docs list Anthropic Claude 4.6 Sonnet and Claude 4.7 Opus in Models & Pricing, but these models do not appear in my Cursor model picker.
i just got hit this morning with an OPUS-4.7 re-seed cache write on a thread that was active all day yesterday. That cost me 76 bucks for a prompt that was meant to confirm a Cursor bug was still present today. Lesson learned the hard way. Thanks @Artemonim for the info/explantion
I’m running the same prompts or intentions for all models to check speed an quality, they judge eachother after, but I’m having difficulties with any method of actual cost evaluation.
I am not really sure, how sometimes input is input and sometimes completely merged into cached, even with different chat, or within the same chat, very mysterious consistency.
Claude appears more expensive, even though it should be cheaper.
“Quality” for Opus 4.7 is horrid. Literally waste of money tonight. I just saw it stuff the context window completely with zero output, it doesn’t follow instructions, goes off-side with verbosity and patching together unrelated structures and not only breaks GPT’s work, but GPT can actually fix the mess and continue with real progress.
but i am still running into parameter issues when creating a plan with 4.7 and this model needs to be able to create plans mid thread more than any other model - you are not fully production capable yet with 4.7
Opus 4.7 is… interesting. I’m a daily user of Opus 4.5 (I elected not to use 4.6 because of its allegedly cold personality) . Dipping my toe into the 4.7 waters, I’ve noticed that it has a tendency to over-plan and over-architect – a relatively simple request for a security audit plan resulted in a 25+ week, 10 phase project. Opus 4.5 looked askance at 4.7’s work and pared it back significantly.
This is also a plea to Cursor to retain Opus 4.5 access. 4.1 was an expensive token hog, but 4.5 has the perfect balance of competence, warmth and token use (in this developer’s humble opinion).
I have mainly been on Opus 4.6 and I think it’s absolutely great for tackling research-heavy tasks. Tried Opus 4.7 for about 2 days and for the first time in two years using Cursor I had issues with work being lost. I know that I should have had more safeguards in place, but honestly, until now this has never happened. Opus 4.7 went on with such autonomy and speed that I found myself with the following (for clarification, I had not asked for git reset --hard nor rm -rf!):
These incidences happened shortly one after the other. Again, lessons learnt - add more safeguards and always do all git-related stuff yourself (it was late at night and I just wanted to get it done ) but anyway, I have never had these kind of issues before and I do find it concerning. Especially taking into account the current trend of just starting (sub) agents to do some tasks in parallel without close supervision.
Bottom line - please Cursor, do not remove Opus 4.6 just yet.