I have a premium Cursor account, but I’ve hit the 500 premium request limit.
Now, premium requests have become so slow that I find myself switching to a free account just to get faster responses.
Is this intentional behavior? Should I buy a second premium account to avoid this slowdown?
It appears Cursor may be testing the limits of how far they can push users into monetization by aggressively throttling slow requests. If that’s the case, the worst thing we can do is stay silent and passively provide them with behavior data that validates this strategy. We should raise our voices now, before this quiet exploitation becomes the new norm. What makes this especially troubling is the absence of transparency: nowhere in our original agreement was it disclosed that slow requests could be throttled into uselessness. Retroactively shifting the goalposts like this isn’t just bad practice, it’s unethical.This is exactly why competition matters: it keeps companies accountable. Without it, users become test subjects for monetization experiments they never consented to.