Hey all, lets answer some queries so far:
Rate limits is a confusing way to describe the system, and our latest blog post about the pricing does a better job of explaining this, but I’ll summarise - each month, you get a level of credit that is >= the cost of your plan. As you send messages in Cursor, you will consume the credit at the same rate you would via the LLMs direct APIs.
Think of it like pre-purchasing meal credit at Disneyland - you pay upfront for your plan, and you can spend that credit at any of the restaurants available in Disneyland.
On top of this, you also continue to get unlimited usage of Tab, and now also unlimited usage of the ‘Auto’ mode, as we can intelligently route users to frontier models based on capacity to help give you more for your money.
While the option to opt out of the new pricing was available via the dashboard, all users were moved over automatically as for many, they would see no difference their usage and would actually get more requests from their subscription each month, depending on their usage.
You can also still send us an email to [email protected] and we’ll be happy to move you back to the old plan either until the plan is fully sunset in the future, or until your the end of your billing period, whichever comes last.
We appreciate the sentiment here, and that our efforts to resolve this have regained some of your trust here! Regarding our subreddit (and this forum), we do currently use a mixture of Cursor staff, Cursor ambassadors, volunteer moderators and AI-powered moderation to try to keep the forum and subreddit as constructive places for people to interact about Cursor.
During this period following our pricing changes, we have been trying to maintain a good balance of constructive criticism while trying to hide or delete posts that are inflammatory and not beneficial to users or us. While this may seem like a kind of censorship, we try to ground these decisions within our community rules.
I’ll make sure to feed this back to the team to see where we can improve here moving forward.
I apologise that our experience with Auto has not been great so far! Auto will always route between a frontier model, like Claude 3.7, Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT 4.1, but some of those models have better or different behaviours to others.
This is exactly what our usage-based pricing system is for! If you do not want to upgrade to a higher plan, you can set a spend limit and allow Cursor to bill you directly for each request made outside of your plans allowance. If enabled, this would takeover seamlessly (with in-app alerting to tell you its happening), and you can always check and configure your usage-based pricing on cursor.com/dashboard
We agree, and this is where we missed the mark. We were not clear enough that ‘Auto’ was unlimited, not all models and usage inside Cursor. We hope this new structure will actually give more requests and usage to our more price-sensitive users. Regardless, we were not clean enough with users on this.
While the speed of responses can fluctuate based on the demand (Anthropic responses slower when it’s busy!), there shouldn’t be a major change here - this seems like it’s more likely a bug, as excluding the ‘slow pool’, we’ve never had any kind of artificial delays or queuing on requests.
If you continue to see this on the new plan, please post in Bug Reports and @ me so I can help you directly there!
While the pricing change, buy-and-large, is an improvement for the majority of users regarding how much they get for their money, those who relied on the state of the art models consistently will likely have seen a cost increase. Offering Claude 4 Sonnet at $0.08/request was not a sustainable pricing model and the new system should now be much better at tracking your actual usage fairly - small requests, and small models will allow you a lot more than 500 requests, bigger extensive models will use a lot more.
I would recommend opting for our Pro+ or Ultra plan, as the additional usage you get with those plans is substantially higher than you would get on Pro with usage-based pricing enabled.
I agree that transparency is best there. We have already added in-app alerts to tell you your progress through your usage, and also included the table on cursor.com to show you your exact usage, but we hope to improve on this more as time goes on.
Looking at these numbers, these do seem to be correct. The exact figures are hard to work out, but the maths would put your cost somewhere between $172.50 (using the 5 min cache-write rate) or $236.70 (using the 1 h rate) for the cost of Claude 4 Opus Thinking.
I’m sorry to hear you got caught out here! Please drop us an email at [email protected] and the team will be happy to refund you for any charges you may have received due to the automatic migration.
Moving forward, it seems like you’d benefit a lot from either Pro+ or Ultra, as you will get much higher usage with those than you would on Pro and using usage-based pricing to reach the same final $ amount.
Please drop us an email at [email protected] and the team will help you out there!
The old plan still has the slow requests pool as before. The only difference to the old plan for those who have opted out is usage-based pricing, as additional requests are no longer charged at a fixed $0.04/request cost.
If you have emailed [email protected], we are seeing a ton of inquires right now, but the team will get back to you as soon as we can!
You can read the full details about the system on our blog post here (Clarifying Our Pricing | Cursor - The AI Code Editor) or on our docs here (Cursor – Models & Pricing).
While the option has been removed from cursor.com/dashboard, please drop us an email at [email protected] and we’ll be happy to help you out.
You will see in-app alerts when you are approaching your limit - we’re hoping to improve the visibility here further too!