It’s obvious that the person who replied to your email doesn’t understand the latest pricing. His boss has already stated that everything will remain unchanged until the next billing cycle.
Try Kiro guys. I was the beta user and it was way better than cursor. And with all this ambiguity with pricing i have cancelled my subscription now. There certainly are other tools in the market. Cursor just wants to mint money from their huge email list now
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I meet the same situation, without historical comparison data, how can I predict my budget for the team? Can Cursor generate a comparison cost report based on customer’s previously team cost?
It’s becoming less and less cost-efficient over time.
In that case, what’s even the point of subscribing to Cursor?
Wouldn’t it be much more transparent — and cost-neutral — to just connect an open-source agent to the API instead?
@Naufaldi_Rafif if that answer is from Sam it may be an mistake. Please stop cross posting the same image on so many threads. You are just confusing users with an inaccurate info.
@user518 the magic is not just the AI model but a lot what happens in Cursor system between your prompt and the request that AI providers receive.
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Hi cursor team, i think cursor should introduce a mini-model (like cursor-small but more powerful) that can perform 50-60% like auto mode. It should be unlimited to use tho.
Cursor: You will pay more for the auto starting on the 15th.
Will we show you which model you are using? No. We will hide it in every way possible, whether by hiding the model name, the amount of actual context available (and not %), so that you will not see that most requests will go to very inexpensive models 
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The only reason I joined the Pro plan in the first place was because Auto was free and unlimited — it was my daily driver for all the small, repetitive tasks. For serious or complex work, I’d use the API-based higher models, but Auto covered the bulk of my everyday workflow.
Now that even Auto is being charged, the whole balance is gone. This pricing might make sense for enterprises with big budgets, but for individual developers like me it’s just not affordable or suitable.
Since the main value of Pro for me was unlimited Auto, I’m now left with no choice but to start finding alternatives.
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Honestly, I think the point here is… the product’s good, but it’s not worth paying a monthly subscription just to get the same or even fewer API requests than I’d pay using the API directly. Is the Agent good? Yeah, it’s ok, but there’s no denying we’ve got better open-source options out there that actually work and have proven to be more accurate in benchmarks. The whole idea of a subscription plan is that you’ll have a certain number of hard users and a much bigger number of users who often use less than your subscription plan. Like with Claude C… you limit the abusers with weekly/monthly rate limits
You can be grandfathered into unlimited Auto for a year if you buy an annual membership of Pro, which is $16/mo.
start finding alternatives
Yea, I’ve haven’t really found any that are as good as Cursor.
we’ve got better open-source options out there that actually work and have proven to be more accurate in benchmarks
Can you elaborate on these better open-source options?
Wow, I had canceled Cursor about three months ago, and when I subscribed again because of the improvements in agent features plus GPT-5, it pulls this nonsense. I hope that with the mass cancellations and the large number of complaints, they find a balanced alternative between profit and cost-benefit for users — but honestly, I just feel like saying a bunch of swear words to Cursor.
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“Oh no! The people are using our product, and we’re losing money!“
”I know! lets screw around with our pricing model until they stop using it, then everything will be okay!”
–management, probably.
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What is the alternative to Cursor that has most of the features and is cheaper?
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This was actually my very first subscription here, and honestly I wasn’t even aware Auto could ever be limited. Before I purchased Pro, I even mailed support to double-check if Auto would stay free/unlimited — and the answer was “yes.” So now seeing the sudden change feels a bit like being told bedtime stories one week and then charged rent for them the next 
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I also noticed when going back through older posts that pricing has already shifted multiple times in just a short period. That kind of inconsistency makes it hard to feel secure as a user.
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I agree. I have my doubts that unlimited Auto would even be honored for those that are grandfathered into it. They’ve changed what they said several times in just the past few months. I would think they are probably try to push those grandfathered in to upgrading from Pro somehow in the coming months, maybe by making Auto less and less useful.
oh well, this is the final nail in the coffin, there are now zero reasons left to use Cursor over loveable, windsurf or even visual studio code
and who promise they will not change token allocations for these pricing insidet this year. never read their T&C but i’m pretty sure they can do that.
if one thing is for sure, cursor proved they hide more than they reveal. in other words. they smell like dishonest
It seems the time has come to explore new horizons. It was a delight while it lasted. Farewell, JetBrains, windsurfing, and Codex!
Lovable is not really a Cursor alternative, but if that works for you, then Cursor may be overkill. And is Windsurf’s pricing any better? They say 500 prompt credits/month, but is that 500 Sonnet-4 requests a month? If it was 500 “requests”, they would advertise that, but instead they say “credits” which implies some models or requests are more expensive. So Windsurf probably cost the same or maybe more than Cursor. Especially since Cursor often provides more than $20 of usage credits/mo. Then it mainly comes down to how well the software actually performs.
Also Windsurf has an unlimited model like what Auto was, but Deepseek and GPT-5-mini are super cheap on Cursor and basically are free/unlimited. GPT-5-mini specifically has been performing well for a lot of the tasks that Auto gets hung up on. Not sure if it will stay that cheap. Something to consider.
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