# Why Claude 4 costs both requests and cash? **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [May 23, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/why-claude-4-costs-both-requests-and-cash/95318 "2025-05-23T00:04:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jerrycai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eada6e/32.png) [@jerrycai](https://forum.cursor.com/u/jerrycai)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/why-claude-4-costs-both-requests-and-cash/95318/1 "2025-05-23T00:04:15Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/5/1/51e060a21b0053c13db57660cba6b18ebc4c17a1.png) I only see the tip that 0.5x Request and 0.75 Request but didn’t see the money charge. Is there a way that I can try Claude 4 with only Requests? (I cannot use out 500 Requests every month) ---
**Author:** ![yinzhongyu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/yinzhongyu/32/57565_2.png) [@yinzhongyu](https://forum.cursor.com/u/yinzhongyu)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 8:16am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/why-claude-4-costs-both-requests-and-cash/95318/2 "2025-05-23T08:16:19Z")
same…oh no ---
**Author:** ![arwed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@arwed](https://forum.cursor.com/u/arwed)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/why-claude-4-costs-both-requests-and-cash/95318/3 "2025-05-23T16:48:40Z")
I’ve experienced this before last month and think this is a general bug. It stopped when I disabled usage-based pricing ---
**Author:** ![jerrycai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eada6e/32.png) [@jerrycai](https://forum.cursor.com/u/jerrycai)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 7:59am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/why-claude-4-costs-both-requests-and-cash/95318/4 "2025-05-24T07:59:36Z")
The question is, it would ask to you to re-enable the usage-based pricing once you try to use Claude 4… ---
**Author:** ![bigmansablo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/bigmansablo/32/42249_2.png) [@bigmansablo](https://forum.cursor.com/u/bigmansablo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 9:30am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/why-claude-4-costs-both-requests-and-cash/95318/5 "2025-05-24T09:30:05Z")
Bruv. Deception it is you know. ---
**Author:** ![arwed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@arwed](https://forum.cursor.com/u/arwed)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/why-claude-4-costs-both-requests-and-cash/95318/6 "2025-05-24T20:54:14Z")
I don’t know what to say, but that seems like a bug to me, too. Normal Claude 4 Sonnet or 4 Sonnet Thinking works for me without usage-based pricing. ---
**Author:** ![arwed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@arwed](https://forum.cursor.com/u/arwed)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/why-claude-4-costs-both-requests-and-cash/95318/7 "2025-05-24T22:58:31Z")
Maybe you are “out of requests” for this month? That would explain why it pops up usage-based pricing needed, since they didn’t yet add it to “slow pool”: [Why Do I Have to Pay for Claude 4.0 When I Didn’t Pay for 3.7? - #3 by danperks](https://forum.cursor.com/t/why-do-i-have-to-pay-for-claude-4-0-when-i-didn-t-pay-for-3-7/96086/3) ---
**Author:** ![jerrycai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eada6e/32.png) [@jerrycai](https://forum.cursor.com/u/jerrycai)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2025, 12:50am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/why-claude-4-costs-both-requests-and-cash/95318/8 "2025-05-25T00:50:07Z")
upgrade to latest version fix this. ---
**Author:** ![condor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/condor/32/73148_2.png) [@condor](https://forum.cursor.com/u/condor)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2025, 9:55am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/why-claude-4-costs-both-requests-and-cash/95318/9 "2025-05-25T09:55:59Z")
You can mark your own answer as solution 🙂 it would help others with same issue ---
**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, 10:43am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/why-claude-4-costs-both-requests-and-cash/95318/10 "2026-06-18T10:43:43Z")