This is the first time I’m complaining about something in Cursor, and that is the Team plan pricing.
As it stands now, it is kind of ripping small agencies. Or maybe all agencies.
Team vs Pro difference? Nearly non-existent. A few simple features in management, no real in IDE-benefits or team-wide configurations/context/etc.
Price difference? 2x
For SaaS companies, startups, etc where product is infinitely scalable it can be justified. For large corporations - kind of also, they typically have solid profit margins where a lot of revenue is generated from leveraging code.
For agencies, especially smaller development-oriented ones - they are left in a weird position. They cannot charge more for the clients than the market, and AI already is kind of a baseline expectation, especially in development.
I might be blowing this slightly out of proportion as 20 or 40 bucks a month is not much when looking at salary in comparison so maybe what I am more frustrated about is that there is a double upcharge without any benefits or reason.
Slow requests turn in after 500 even though 50% of team paying users have plenty left (and won’t be using them through)
There are no context/rules that we can auto-add for the team users (i.e. how do we name methods, structure code, what licenses in docblocks we use, etc)
MCPs cannot be auto-set for team members (i.e. make context7 MCP added by default for all team members)
Default models cannot be set for the team (i.e. instead of Auto use sonnet 4)
Heck, even invoices cannot be auto-sent to finance team
Cursor, you can do better.
Github is trying a lot in this direction but with even a minimal focus here Cursor will be better in no time.
I strongly share this frustration and it leaves Cursor vulnerable to competitors. I look for opportunities to switch (but Cursor is still by far the best product).
With the new switch to rate limit pricing it’s an opportunity. A team should get a team wide rate limit (not a per user rate limit). This way as long as the team is not over the rate limit then we aren’t charged. i.e. if there are 20 teams users then they get 20x the rate limit of a pro user. The pooled pricing would make up for the fact that it is 2x more per user.
in general, shouldn’t you pay LESS when you buy in bulk? just looking at the Pro vs. Team pricing makes me balk. Enterprise, which I assume is even more expensive, can make sense for large organizations when you need massive-scale features but c’mon… small businesses/startups should not be paying more per user than the individual Pro price
