Hello, if I continue with usage-based billing, it looks like I might exceed $100. So far, I’ve been using Claude Opus 4.5. It works really well, but it seems to be more expensive compared to Gemini 3 Pro. I will either continue with usage-based billing or buy the $60 Cursor Pro+ plan. Which one makes more sense? And as I asked in the title, which one is cheaper Opus or Gemini?
can’t directly answer the question for you, but also been using opus 4.5 found it costly, but well worth the money, best model I’ve used so far, a pleasure to work with. the time and stress it saved compared to trying to save money on other models (i keep trying to do stuff with grok, which is still free, but not in the same league)
also check out the other post on here about the additional free credits you get as you buy the larger tiers, you can make significant savings over pay as you go credits, i believe, but its not well explained by cursor. worth checking out.
The few times I tested it, I found Opus to be monstrously expensive for no difference in output quality from Sonnet whatsoever.
The actual model pricing is (unsurprisingly) easy to find in the documentation:
And yes, from the $200 plan you get MINIMUM $400 worth of API request, and for me it’s usually more around $650-700 before it rolls over to usage-based pricing.
I haven’t tried but this one looks a good tool to track and evaluate the cost: https://cursortokens.vercel.app/
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