Pricing Megathread and Q&A

Hello, I am a user of the Pro plan. I am a Pro plan user and was using Sonnet4 when this popup came up, preventing me from even using Sonnet or Opus.

Will this recover with time or do I have to wait until the July 20 reset as stated?

The past pricing plan was that if you used up all your fast requests, you could use the slow speeds, but now Sonnet itself is not available; when I set it to Auto, it is unusable because of the ridiculously stupid processing, and I can’t even use the slow speeds because of the slow speeds.

Is it possible to send an email as in past threads to change the plan to the past fast/low speed request format?
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The soul of Cursor is gone. The very reason why everyone was connected to use it is no more. Now we can search for alternatives as we will get everything that cursor provides with more transparency and cheaper options. Somewhere along the way to make it more sustainable, the base and foundations were weaker. They could have just increased the pricing a little more and notify us that they had to do it to making it sustainable. But instead they never thought what was cursor to us. Or rather they thought they can forcefully make us use it. Good bye.

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As long as you pay them money, nothing will change. Only a drop in revenue will make them think. I unsubscribed.

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I did and I got an AI response. It gave me no solution and I am still waiting for a real person to contact me. This is really frustrating.

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Now Claude Code supports Windows natively ─ no longer need to setup Windows Subsystem for Linux(WSL).
Move on! Claude Code Pro Supports 40 requests per 5 hours ─ this means roughly 200 requests per day ─ 6200 requests per month.
Cursor pro new pricing only allows 225 requests Claude 4 Sonnet per month, so Claude Code is much much much better.

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The gap is too big. I used another AI and spent $300 and a day writing a semi-finished product
I used the cursor for half a month mainly to recover at a constant speed, but in the end, due to cursor confusion, my system was completely deleted. In the best case scenario, most functions are implemented, but the code is really ugly! The main reason is that the editor freezes and loses context, and then begins to make random changes. It is difficult to detect that it is not easily intercepted because if you stop, you will be deducted from the number of calls and then restricted for a whole day

Thank you to whoever recommended testing Augment Code—I hadn’t heard of it before, but I’m now a fan. It’s everything I hoped Cursor would be: smart, fast, and stable. My Cursor subscription runs out soon, and I will not be returning.

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I think Coursor is the best choice at the moment, but his price and charging method are not, I think it should at least be on par with Claude Code, even if it is more expensive and less requested, I have a reason to choose Coursor, but now I will not continue to choose Coursor

err, just use Copilot for 39$ and get 1600 requests

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Well,then you’re contributing to the scam that is cursor.

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We may as well use this thread as a price comparison discussion, best way to demonstrate to their finance department that their cashcows will walk if they keep the squeezing.

How does Windsurf or Augment Code compare with Claude Cli at present? Comparable ?

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I’m honeslty just super confused and unsure about what’s happening, so i’m actively looking into replacements.

I’m by no stretch super active and i ran out of tokens 10 days into my plan (i’d never before finished my 500 requests before this), and that was after i was using 3.5 more to try and conserve more because i was getting warnings of usage after just 5 days.

I don’t want to turn on usage based because of all the horror stories of huge bills, and 200$ is honestly just too much for me to pay. If i could pay like 40$ and be more or less guaranteed taht at least i can use 3.5 on slow or something then i’d be happy, but as it is it feels like none of the options presented are paletable, and it all feels incredibly opaque and difficult to understand what exactly you pay for and how long it will last.

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If this sh*t pricing model continues, I will unsubscribe before next billing of course.

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VS code Very good updates this month, and actually got close to the agent mode usability and quality. The cursor risks burying itself with tricky pricing where tokens quickly run out. I think a good solution would be to raise the minimum price to $30-$35 and give the opportunity to clearly see how many resources are left. Because the basic subscription is $20, Right now it looks like a free trial where it’s hard to develop even a small product. If the cursor has financial problems, I think it is better to make a difficult decision and raise the minimum price,Than try to manipulate, because all the innovations and advantages are lost when there is no opportunity to use them,because in a few days the entire resource of the package ran out.

I’m really happy seeing this topic here guys, everyone can see how disguting that new pricing become. And 5 days later without respost in [email protected]!
“Now Claude Code supports Windows natively ─ no longer need to setup Windows Subsystem for Linux(WSL).
Move on! Claude Code Pro Supports 40 requests per 5 hours ─ this means roughly 200 requests per day ─ 6200 requests per month.
Cursor pro new pricing only allows 225 requests Claude 4 Sonnet per month, so Claude Code is much much much better.” good bye Cursor.

yeah i just signed up for the 10$ copilot, it seems at the moment not quite as good as cursor but it’s pretty good, and i’d expect it to continue to improve until it works as well.

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Officially, ‘Claude Code’ doesn’t natively support Windows 10/11 — no idea where you got the idea that it does.
Maybe you found some hacks that let it run with a bunch of errors.

As of now, I don’t see any reason to use ‘Claude Code’, especially through the console — a full-fledged IDE is what’s really needed.

# Changelog
## 1.0.51
- Added support for native Windows (requires Git for Windows)
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Drop this pricing model, Cursor — or we’ll have no choice but to walk away.
That’s the whole story, really.

Abandon this pricing policy.

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Totally agree, Auto is a crapshoot and if I get a random dumb model, it can ruin the good work my named models have done.

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