Your "Pro" plan is a joke - constant limits are ruining my development workflow

[Alex16]

Hey Cursor team,

I’m writing this because I’m genuinely ■■■■■■ off with your Pro plan. I’ve been using Cursor for months now, and honestly, calling this plan “Pro” feels like straight-up false advertising.

Look, I get it - you need to manage costs and server resources. But what I don’t get is why I’m paying for a “Pro” subscription and still getting treated like I’m on some free trial that’s about to expire every ■■■■ day.

Here’s what’s driving me crazy:

I’ll be in the middle of debugging something complex, finally getting into that flow state where everything clicks, and then BAM - “You’ve exceeded your Claude usage limit.” Are you kidding me? I’m literally paying you money to use this tool professionally, and you’re cockblocking me every few hours.

The worst part? These limits hit so fast it’s ridiculous. I’m not even doing anything crazy - just normal development work, asking Claude to help with refactoring, explain some code, or help debug an issue. But apparently, that’s too much for your “Pro” plan.

And don’t get me started on those popup notifications. They’re so obnoxious and intrusive. Every time I see that red warning popup, I know my productivity is about to tank because I’ll have to either wait around doing nothing or switch to some inferior tool.

What really gets me:

The whole experience feels like you’re punishing me for actually using the service I’m paying for. It’s like buying a gym membership and being told you can only use the equipment for 30 minutes a day. What’s the point?

I have no idea when these limits reset, how close I am to hitting them, or what even counts toward my usage. The whole system feels arbitrary and user-hostile.

Bottom line:

Either give me actually unlimited access like a real Pro plan should, or at least be honest about what I’m buying. Right now, I feel like I’m getting scammed. I’m paying Pro money for a hobbyist experience, and that’s not okay.

I really want to love Cursor - when it works, it’s amazing. But these constant interruptions are making me seriously consider switching to something else, and I know I’m not the only one feeling this way.

[qurore]

This is because you don’t subscribe to the Ultra plan.
However, please be aware that some users have reported a decrease in code quality, even with the Ultra plan.

Performance Issues After Upgrading to $200 Ultra Plan

Describe the Bug I’ve been using Cursor for a while now to build an app I’m actively working on and I’ve been consistently impressed with how well it understands and helps implement my ideas. It’s become a core part of my daily workflow and I’ve been on the Pro plan for months without any major issues. The model I used “Claude Sonnet 4 in Max Thinking Mode” has always handled my app requests efficiently, usually completing them accurately in just one prompt. However, since upgrading to the $200…

Regarding request limits and speed on the Cursor Ultra plan

I am on ultra and its a rip off. You eat through tokens like crazy. If you develop daily for a few hours, youll run out halfway through the month. I worked thru a hard bug yesterday for about an hour (with selective, refined prompts) and i had used up $70 in “usage”. It’s a total meme.

[Gravez]

Yeah i’m definitely regretting my decision upgrading to Ultra expecting that there wasn’t a “catch”. There has been a huge decrease in code quality that it’s almost unusable. Took me 15 prompts to complete a simple task that use to take my agent literally one prompt to complete just a month ago. It’s insane.

Thanks for the threads. I’ll take a look rn.

[flowing-water1]

With their development, they become increasingly unaware of user feedback, but just want to make money.

[bimbombim]

I agree with you 100%, this is some kind of bad joke. If it were still possible to switch to old pricing, that would be okay, because it was nice that after 500 requests you got slow requests, but now? You can’t even change that…

[Alxbrondj]

Relax, I think this is the agony of the cursor and the project is hopeless, since the providers directly decided to make their agents (Claude Code, for example) and soon we will see their plugins or their own IDEs. And Cursor is just a middleman. At the first stage, it was nice to work in it, but now it is completely impossible with their new pricing model. And they have nowhere to go, since they are middlemen, they make a 20% markup, but apparently they wanted to earn even more by making completely opaque usage statistics, hidden prompts to increase the write-off of money, etc. Cursor will die if someone does not buy it. But the thing is - what is there to buy? A plugin for VS-Code? It is easier to just lure away key developers if they have value. And Cursor investors will probably lose their investments. A dead-end scheme, because Anthropic, Open AI, Google have already decided that they do not need middlemen.

[danperks]

Hi all,

Firstly, I apologise that you are unhappy with our recent pricing changes. While our rollout of this new plan wasn’t optimal (see our blog post on this), the new system is now much more representative of each user’s usage, and allows us to give more usage to users than on our old plan across all our models!

Looking at your specific usage (@Alex16), I can see that you have used >$300 worth of API-priced usage, all within your $20/m plan, with over 90% of this being Claude model usage!

However, I’d be interested to learn more about the “constant interruptions” as hitting your limit is a hard stop, so you should only hit it once! Are you seeing some errors or something more often than this which is interrupting your flow?

[qurore]

@danperks
Oh, so you have the authority to publicly expose a customer’s specific personal information like usage data without their consent.
I didn’t know that.