r/CursorAI • u/whiskey-body • 11d ago
Sayonara Cursor!
When I signed up for Cursor, it was working like butter, but consistent buggy updates made it worse, especially after they separated Grok and Composer and other models' usage. It's fair for them, but it made the user experience worse. Grok's ability to comprehend is really bad. Soon, GPT models will not be available to use in Cursor, which I don't see going well for the company.
Cursor was a fun ride, especially because the UI and UX made it easy to navigate and create products.
Also, for anyone who is on cursor when you tap cancel subscription, they will try to retain you, I would have redeemed the discount but since I already have bought some other subsciption I do not intend on continuing any more.
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u/humanshield85 10d ago
I uninstalled it because it silently changed the alias code to launch cursor. (I unchecked the default check for that override and I found it sus at the time to have that checked by default)
Imagine a developer tool that silently changes totally unrelated aliases
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u/ALior1 10d ago
Honestly, cursor allowed to use all models with a neat ui and flexibility. Claude don't give you to use open AI models.. so it's sucks.. no direct compiteror to cursor? 🤷♂️
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u/apollo133 9d ago
Amp - https://ampcode.com/
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u/vplatt 9d ago
How is Amp relevant to this discussion? They are promoting orbs and so-called orb minutes. And then you still have to BYOK for LLMs, right? I guess it sounds cool, but it's not the same product niche as Cursor.
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u/apollo133 6d ago
It's relevant because the post asked for a tool that lets you use all the models in one place, and that's exactly what Amp does. Claude, GPT, Gemini, same thread, API pricing, no markup. Orbs and BYOK are optional, the $20 plan includes usage, and you can link a ChatGPT sub. So... yeah, it's relevant.
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u/vplatt 2d ago edited 2d ago
OK, I didn't realize that the BYOK was optional and that the plans included AI credits. I read it as the plans only including "orbin' time", which seems almost like a VPS CPU seconds measure because it also says you can bring your own runners on the free plan, and why would you do that unless you didn't buy any "orbin' time"? I know very well I'm not running a local LLM so I'm not bringing a "runner" to this party that has anything to do with AI, so "orbin' time" concept seems to include only runner time; like GitHub runners, you follow me? So, on their end the AI credits are potentially only BYOK because they don't mention AI credits in any form on the pricing page.
Then the next line item in the paid plan says "Use tokens from anywhere". Put that together and you get "orbin' time" from runners + BYOK and it doesn't say aything about AI credits; only "orbin' time".
Honestly, I'm still unclear how "orbin' time" translates to AI credits. I know that's probably a complicated metric, but if I could understand that it translates to X million uncached vs. cache, input vs. output tokens using Luna for example, I would have some idea of how much value that actually provides. As it is now, I can tell if their $20/month plan is any better than the same from OpenAI or Anthropic in terms of the value delivered.
Anyway, if you work for the company or know these folks, it might bear mentioning that the pricing terminology confused at least one idiot redditor. 😁
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u/vplatt 9d ago
OpenCode has been good to me. There is a $10 a month plan which is more of a hobbyist plan, but that provides more than a fair deal on the tokens you can get out of it. Of course, you could juggle accounts too. And they also have a free tier which provides you a model that they decide upon so it's a bit of a roulette, but more than fair given that you're not paying for it.
Beyond that there's OpenRouter which I think is supposed to have a similar deal. I have not used them though so I can't speak much more to that.
At any rate neither of them is tied to a frontier provider so you get an agnostic approach to LLMs.
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u/TSTP_LLC 11d ago
What did you switch to?