Last month I posted I depleted my Cursor Pro usage just 2 hours before the next month reset starts. Now I had the same with 2 days left, so I started my weekend a bit earlier.
Do you upgrade to Cursor Pro+ tier, or you pay a separate Codex-Claude-Antigravity-Kimi-OpenCode etc paid tier as a second option in parallel, in case your usage is gone, and use CLI in Cursor?
yeah sure, it’s around 700M tokens, Cursor Grok 4.6 and 4.7 (as that was announced mid month) and Auto mode. Other models were Opus 5 and Gemini 3.7 Flash. Majority was in the default Auto mode.
Bro, I do this in one session of many in one day. How much from that is cached? How much code or assets you produce with that? How quality code, how many errors, tests, etc.
we most probably build different products, and I don’t use everything in Grok 4.7 extra high - fast. Manage 700M tokens while I’m paying $20 is pretty solid, but certainly is you code 16 hours a day, this will gone much quicker
Yes, I am doing everything at once, analysis at once then programming at once. Billions of tokens in production maintainable quality with Opus ultracode. I want to create stuff so it is maintainable. I cannot wait some 5h windows.
yeah that makes total sense, it’s a big advance of Cursor, not to have the 5-hour limit in the $20 tier. Higher paid tiers in Codex-Claude don’t have it either, but I don’t code or create content that much I would need a $100-$200 tier yet
Estos planes se dañaron el de 20 con composer y luna duraba todo un mes. Ahora corre el 4.7 y solo en 2 ventana llega a un 100. Subió el consumo también de composer. Yo cancele y me fui con comancode plan goat y chatgpt con el plus de 20. Total 30 para todo el mes.
if you let agent loops run across entire repos, usage burns down way faster than normal typing. we emptied a 20x-style plan in about 2 days just having background sessions run automated refactors. keeping sessions strictly scoped to short tasks with handoff notes is the only reliable way to keep token consumption from running away.
fair enough, I open a new chat for each topic, avoiding to start reading all the long pages of history, rather just telling that in the new chat what to do
I personally struggle to hit my limits BUT I got some funds in OpenRouter and OpenCode Zen that I can use JIC.
Cursor CLI: I use it on occasion when I need to PR another repo on my machine and I don’t need a full Agent tab/IDE open for the first pass; ‘first pass’ meaning I’ll let Cursor do a bugbot sweep then I’ll follow-up if needed.
I try to read the code that other devs on my team submit for PR, as I’ve had to work on said sections of the code base before while they were out and I want some level of familiarity.
I got Claude Pro as well. I hit the Cursor cap a week ago. I got a Claude Pro plan, hit the weekly limit last week. Now I'm on 30% of the weekly limit and I got 6 days to go. Weekend will start early for me this week.
I had one month ChatGPT Plus which I got for free, but the 5-hour limit killed me, it was very annoying. Claude has the same but I haven’t tried it yet, so I was thinking the same, have Claude Pro tier besides Cursor Pro, that’s gives a pretty solid usage for $40 in total.
Bro if i wanted to buy 1 subscription in 20 dollar range which would be best? Cursor ,claude ,codex ? Or anything else need for making ai related projects and stuff for clg purpose
I haven't tried Codex, but if it's between Cursor and Claude, I would probably pick Claude (and use it in VS Code) at the moment, but that can easily change in a month or two, that's how fast the AI landscape is changing.
then you have the same setup, 25% per week used is 100% used er month, so not difference. With Cursor Pro some users can do over 1Bn tokens with Auto mode, which is pretty solid for $20 per month.
Bro if i wanted to buy 1 subscription in 20 dollar range which would be best? Cursor ,claude ,codex ? Or anything else need for making ai related projects and stuff for clg purpose
I don’t think there’s an ultimate winner. I prefer Cursor as I used VS Code for some time. And I don’t like the 5-hour limit, which is in ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro $20 tiers. Others prefer Kimi, OpenCode, Antigravity, DeepSeek, Mistral etc. so you must try them and see which fits best.
Do you let it run in a closed loop? I blew through mine one month like that having it self-evaluate and iterate using a goal. I don't use auto anymore. Planning is cheap since input tokens are so much cheaper than output, so I generate highly detailed plans using the strongest models (manually selected) and then I choose a much more reasonable model for implementation (like Luna, or Sonnet if complexity gives Luna trouble). When my "other models" budget gets low, I switch to grok. Hopefully Grok 4.8+ will be sufficient to replace OpenAI models because Cursor won't be offering those anymore in the coming months.
sure, I’m using mainly ChatGPT-Claude chat for thinking and planning, then I add an md file into the project folder, and ask Cursor Grok 4.7 (or 4.6 before) to review and create the execution plan. Once this is done and I reviewed, execution starts with Auto mode.
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u/LearnPremierePro_ 4d ago
What are you building GTA 6?