# Usage-based pricing not working?

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/usage-based-pricing-not-working/33896>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [December 10, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/usage-based-pricing-not-working/33896 "2024-12-10T20:29:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![hedgehogform](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c37758/32.png) [@hedgehogform](https://forum.cursor.com/u/hedgehogform)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/usage-based-pricing-not-working/33896/1 "2024-12-10T20:29:59Z")

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I have enabled usage-based pricing but it doesn’t seem to do anything?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/2X/4/436ddfa6fb79c54f5048a3fea84ea18671c58b7c.png)

I have it enabled but I still get slow requests and I can’t see any extra charges for usage-based pricing.

Am I using it wrong? If not why even have an option for something that doesn’t even work?

Is this thing even working?

It would be nice if there was a pay-per request or something because I don’t mind paying a little extra per request instead of paying $20 for extra 500 requests because I’d burn through them pretty quickly, and have a dynamic limit based on the usage-based pricing but so far I don’t know but it doesn’t seem to do anything.

I would like to have it for claude-3.5-sonnet.

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**Author:** ![hedgehogform](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c37758/32.png) [@hedgehogform](https://forum.cursor.com/u/hedgehogform)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/usage-based-pricing-not-working/33896/2 "2024-12-10T21:20:28Z")

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For now I added extra 500 requests so I have 1000 but it would be nice to use a dynamic like usage-based pricing.

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**Author:** ![deanrie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/deanrie/32/1263_2.png) [@deanrie](https://forum.cursor.com/u/deanrie)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 4:10am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/usage-based-pricing-not-working/33896/3 "2024-12-11T04:10:14Z")

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Hey, the usage-based pricing feature only works for Claude 3 Opus, o1, and a few models with long context windows. It’s not available for Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/2X/d/d24700130eca2a4ffb354304aa501a904dc37e87.png)

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**Author:** ![hedgehogform](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c37758/32.png) [@hedgehogform](https://forum.cursor.com/u/hedgehogform)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 4:17am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/usage-based-pricing-not-working/33896/4 "2024-12-12T04:17:42Z")

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Oh okay

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/system/32/99069_2.png) [@system](https://forum.cursor.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/usage-based-pricing-not-working/33896/5 "2026-06-18T10:21:36Z")

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