I just signed up for cursor only have 6/500 uses, but get this message.
What is your Cursor version? Are you on 0.50.x?
0.49.6 on NixOS
Why are you using an old, not even latest-patch-for-minor version if you just signed up?
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I got 3 months of Cursor free from Perplexity Pro. The latest packaged version on NixOS (you can’t run app images) is 0.49.6.
I messed around with the 0.50.5 appimage to get it running and I don’t seem to get the message anymore. I haven’t retested 0.49.6, but that might have been the problem in my case.
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Same here! Is this really true? Cursor wants extra money for the new model now? They even removed 3.7 (apparently is was performing worse) and now you are supposed to use 3.5 instead.
Well, if this the case, I’ll rather pay Anthropic directly and cancel my Cursor subscription… Not paying for a VS Code clone with “features” you get for free in other IDEs.
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Our capacity for Claude 4 is limited at the moment due to the popularity of the model and therefore is not currently available in the slow pool.
Once it’s usage is stabilised and further capacity from our inference providers is available, it should be available in the slow pool soon, but for now if you are out of fast requests, you will need to enable usage-based pricing to use this model.
3.7 is still available in the slow pool, and can be enabled in the settings: Cursor Settings -> Models -> Claude 3.7
@danperks This happens with fast requests also!
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I can understand limited capacity, it’s natural. But limited capacity is not the full story here.
This was an important information. You clearly knew that from the start, yet the message we’ve received was vague - just a request to pay, with no explanation why, as evidenced in the original screenshot.
Adding to that, the team opted not to include this information in the announcements done in various communication channels, including this forum. Your ambassadors didn’t have access to that information either, and couldn’t help
The team was happy to announce that Claude 4 is available, happy to share there’s a 50% discount, but not as eager to share that it’s not for everyone.
Users see the announcements, get happy about the new model, then they see they have to pay and don’t know why - whether it’s a bug or it’s intentional.
But that’s not all.
Even with limited capacity, you had an option to make the model available for all users without overloading the system, f.e. by giving everyone to make X requests with Sonnet 4, and then switch to payment.
Instead, you’ve opted to make it a lottery, rewarding those users who just so happened to have their monthly subscription cycle refresh in the last few days, while those unlucky didn’t even get an explanation.
And to rub more salt to the wound, you’ve gave them a double reward, by letting them do twice as many Sonnet 4 requests due to the discount, which is unavailable for the others. If Claude is oh so overloaded, why do that?
Maybe it was a good PR move, but it wasn’t really a fair treatment.
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