I have had the Cursor Pro plan for a while and usually (99.99% of the time) used Claude, to the point I paid over $300 a month for it.
so I just purchased Claude max from anthropic and dropped the key in Cursor, but got this message:
“With your Cursor Pro subscription, you do not need to use your own Anthropic key.”
I understand I can use it with the pro plan, but can I downgrade my plan and use my Anthropic key? would I loose any pro feature?
Hey, yes, you will lose many benefits of the paid subscription. Only the chat feature will be available to you, not the Agent mode, Cursor Tab, Apply code, and many others.
I still recommend keeping your Pro subscription even if you use your API key, otherwise, using Cursor won’t make much sense.
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I’m not understanding this either. I use Cursor on the Pro Plan. With the Claude 4 models, my bill appears to be around $400-500/month. So, I’ve been looking at Claude’s Max Plan which locks me in at $200/mo. as a better option for the Claude/Anthropic models.
Let’s assume I add my Anthropic key to Cursor - still on the Pro Plan - and use that key for the Claude queries/work… I’m losing access to Cursor’s tooling (Agent, etc.) by doing so?
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