My costs are exploding with cursor pro. I use mostly Claude Sonnet 4 (thinking) which seems to be the best model for most use cases.
I now compared to claude code pro.
Cursor Pro: 500 requests / month Claude (code) Pro: 45 every 5 hours => >200/day => +6000 / month
is my view right?
Difference with max Plan is even bigger.
Do I pay more than 10x for just accessing different models (most models make no sense)?
Edit: Cursor counts a normal sonnet request as 0.5 and with thinking 0.75. No information about max modes(?). So my calculation is not exakt but difference is nevertheless very big comparing claude pro and cursor pro.
I think also there should be a plan between cursor pro and cursor ultra as claude provides.
@doczoidberg 45 with no tool calls, when tool calls happen, it may go to even 10 prompts every 5 hours, also most users would not use it for 24hrs so that calculation is misleading, pricing was good before and is even better now, as @TMRomain said, it was an update to get on par with other services pricing and to allow unlimited tool calls and background agents work in tangent
As Dan from Cursor already answered in other threads, I will rehash it here.
The actual rate limits should not be reached by most, unless you use a lot additional features like background agent etc, when eventually the ultra plan would become better match.
Dan also mentioned that there are sustained rate limit (longer period of time) and a burst rate limit (short period of intense activity). Basically burst would allow you to use more request in short time then continue with other steps (like reading docs or testing,..).
Technically its not really a difference how it is counted as it also includes tool calls and other new features.
If you are still able to send Claude 4 requests, but they are slow / hanging, this sounds like a bug and not a part of the new pricing!
We already have some fixes that should come in the next update that should help here, but if you’re seeing this a lot, feel free to post in Bug Reports
Dan mentioned in other posts that users can use Pro plan with usage based pricing. e.g. one user asked about 100 USD plan which basically would be from Dans answer a Pro plan + 80 USD usage based limit set.
I actually think this is a good idea in theory. I’m subbed to claude max and cursor’s former model didn’t seem appealing in comparison…now whether it works well in practice idnk
One thing I havnt seen much of yesterday is that summarising chat rubbish, that broke the flow and context every single time. Hope it doesn’t rear its head again, horrible feature.
All our devs are using Cursor ATM, but we are very unhappy about the new pricing. Basically it just tripled our expenses without changing anything in our workflow. So now we switch to Claude code.. I liked cursor, but the company behind it makes a pretty greedy and manipulative impression.
