Hey all — Really enjoying Cursor Pro and loving how it helps with AI-powered editing. But… something’s not adding up when it comes to token usage and I think it’s worth discussing openly here. Here’s what happened: :backhand_index_pointing_right: I edited a single file that was about 7,500 token…

[image] Mohamed_Khafagy: see screenshot below This tokenizer can be wrong by at least 10% in relation to different LLMs. [image] Mohamed_Khafagy: After that one edit One edit or one request? Is the entire workspace a single file?

Yes, but this was around 10x the tokens, not just a 10% variance from tokenizer differences, so I don’t think it’s a tokenizer mismatch issue. This was a single API request using “Claude 4” (not Fast Edit), on a single file that totaled approximately 7,500 tokens. However, Cursor’s dashboard shows…

[image] Mohamed_Khafagy: This was a single API request using “Claude 4” (not Fast Edit), on a single file that totaled approximately 7,500 tokens. How did you know there was only one “API request”? Was it executed in Manual mode? Did the agent use the tools only once or didn’t use them at al…

Sorry for that i mean it was single request using claude 4, not single api request,and also i selected the lines i want to edit and did not leave it to read whole file to find it, and it take 10x tokens than file size

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cursor_prevent_same_gender_chat_interac.md.txt (5.8 KB) This was less than 50 lines of code, but the output consumed 107K tokens. Honestly, when I was planning an editor for my internal company use, I wasn’t expecting to send the entire code 10 times in a single request, that kind of behavior feel…

Well, yes, 3 edit_tool shouldn’t have read 8k tokens 14 times…

Hope they can give explanation here

A-lot of people are having this same issue. I messaged Cursor and they said that I should switch to Auto for the time being. Like I paid $200 to not have access to the models in my plan lol. If they don’t fix this soon, ill either try to force a refund, or chargeback.

Looks very strange really, why do they use this sum of tokens even? I think they have long sequence of calls and everytime the send full code again, they can - with small manipulation - sent only the structure and avoid such big usage, lets wait for the explanation

Why is a simple edit eating 100,000+ tokens? Let’s talk about this

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Why is a simple edit eating 100,000+ tokens? Let’s talk about this

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