I’m on annual Cursor Ultra ($200/mo, billed yearly so effectively $160/mo with discount).
Generally when you purchase a “flagship” tier from these companies you expect the most premium experience/usage/etc. Not only that, but if you front an entire annual prepaid amount you are essentially saying “yo, I believe you’re the best in this space and I’m going to commit to your product.” Companies typically reciprocate by offering a discount, which in reality, promoting/marketing that discount is usually the actual reason people opt for the annual in the first place (myself included). Point being, that discount is the “reward” for paying a year upfront.
SuperGrok Heavy is $300/mo. It unlocks Cursor Ultra at $0 for as long as Heavy stays active. Cursor’s own docs confirm it: qualifying Heavy customers get “free Cursor Ultra created at $0,” and if you’re already on Ultra, linking Heavy adds nothing.
Prepaid Ultra does not convert to any variant of SuperGrok, nor does it allow me to use Grok Build (which is an open source harness, mind you).
And before anyone says “Heavy costs nearly double, of course it gets more”: compare annual to annual. Heavy is $3,000/year. Roughly $490 of that is X Premium+ bundled in, which I’d happily go without. Strip that out and the “AI-only” difference between annual Heavy and my annual Ultra is about $49/mo***. For that $49, Heavy users get everything in SuperGrok Plus, Grok Build, top limits, and my entire $1,920/year plan thrown in at $0.
Grok Bot is already included with Ultra, good deal. But that shouldn’t be the thing I’m being told (via support) is why Ultra users should feel made whole after this acquisition (which formally closed August 14). It legitimately feels like a slap in the face. This is not a brand-new xAI app they tossed in to make Ultra even. FYI, this was internally “Sand.” The Information* reported an Aug 8 all-hands: new products would wear Grok, and Sand could be renamed Grok Bot. Digital Today** says Cursor staff had Sand from late June.
I’d be cool with most of this if we ALSO had access to utilize our subscription with Grok Build… the supposed “best way” to use 4.6 per Elon’s tweet.
If you prepaid Ultra and then watched Heavy give the same plan away, you are in the same boat.