Usage blocked at the moment

[light-merlin-dark]

I dialed up my fast requests manually earlier this month because slow requests started appearing to be a lot slower then when I first started using Cursor.

After a while, I rang up about 3,269 fast requests. I didn’t know if my account was going to be charged for the same capacity next month because it’s not clear on the page how the billing works so I dialed it back down because I’m almost finished my project.

I thought I would still have the extra credits to burn through but then I got back into the slow requests queue and it seemed even slower than before-- I was waiting for around 2-4 minutes for a response.

But I couldn’t go back to raise fast requests (see screenshot).

So then I enabled usage-based pricing and added my Anthropic Key to the project. It showed I used $0.00/$50 limit on the dashboard, but then Cursor showed me that I hit the limit with my API key.

Cursor has been a coding juggernaut for me for the past several months and unfortunately, I’m now at almost a pause and slow crawl with it. I had to revert back to disabled usage-based pricing too.

How can I resolve this?

p.s. Thank you so much for this wonderful tool! I’ve recently explored W1ndsurf and, while I feel it’s more affordable and does some things really well, Cursor still is a lot more intelligent in how it does many things, and faster too, especially with more context.

p.p.s. Wow, I can’t have the word “W1ndsurf” in my post? I think you guys can do a little better with that. It can be helpful to compare things that other tools do well so you have a model to follow. Banning a term like that seems unintellectual.

[danperks]

Seems like you’ve had a slew of less-than-optimal experiences here, but let me try to explain it all!

With our old fast requests packages, they would by default renew monthly. If you still have >500 fast requests on your account, that will keep renewing at the same price.

The slow queue gets longer the more you use it, but using more fast requests won’t add to how long the time is; it is only slow.

As you have seen, we have switched to usage-based pricing to simplify our plan and avoid people paying for requests they don’t use. With this system, you pay $0.04 for each request you use. We will bill you at the start of each month for what you used previously unless you hit $20, in which case we will invoice you immediately to ensure users don’t use $100s of usage without paying for it.

With usage-based pricing, you don’t need to add an API key, that is a separate feature. If you add an API key, the key will be used over the usage-based pricing, so the costs of your requests would go to Anthropic, not us. It’s best to decide one way or the other with this usually.

The errors you see regarding your API key are due to your key having lower limits from Anthropic - this isn’t us imposing the limit! If you use usage-based pricing, you won’t see these issues.

[light-merlin-dark]

Aye, thank you! I really appreciate the clarity. That’s what I was expecting and this confirmed my choices were well.

I’ve switched to the usage based pricing and it’s really great. Thanks again for Cursor – it’s such a wonderful and thrilling app to use!

Godspeed.

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