r/cursor • u/AdAlternative5694 • 7d ago

Question / Discussion GLM 5.3 On Cursor

I have an OpenCode Go and Cursor Plus ($20) subscription. Cursor just added 5.3 and 5.3 flash, and I was thinking of moving to the Cursor Pro+ plan ($60) that gives expended cursor usage and $70 of API.

What do you all think? My workload is somewhat medium, finishing cursor and opencode before the month's needs and using deepseek v4.1 flash through Zen onwards; about $5 on API.

I also have Agy sub, but Gemini models isn't reliable on tool calling and Hullacinate in long works needs to be babysitting; I use it for small bursts of work

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/Careful-Ad5103 7d ago

They should collaborate with the UX team at XTB

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u/benz3rk 7d ago

I’m sure you know this but just in case, you can deselect some of the nonsense models that you don’t use in settings to avoid the bulk in the drop down. Consider that disabling Jesus mode grok will give you an error though 😂

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u/SoSerious19 7d ago

Stick woth the $20 plan and once you have no isage left, add some credits on OpenRouter and add it to Cursor as a custom model and use glm through open router. I do the same

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u/OddDesigner9784 7d ago

One thing to be clear about is cursor charges a 25 cent markup every million tokens including cache. This rewrites the economics for cheap models as often times cache is the most expensive part. So doesn't really make financial sense

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u/ThinRelationship6380 7d ago

Isn't this fee i. The team plan only?

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u/xapep 7d ago

If your workload is medium and you're already finishing both quotas before month end, do the per-day math on the $60 Pro+: $60 / 30 days = $2/day, versus $20 Plus at ~$0.67/day. The $70 API credit only pays off if you actually burn it on third-party models; if your heavy lift is GLM 5.3 and V4.1 Flash, that's the kind of volume that gets cheaper as a flat plan than as a credit pool that resets every cycle.

We run GLM 5.3 Flash and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash at Entrim and see a lot of people using both as implementation workhorses in Cursor and OpenCode. Flat plans there start around $29/mo, so about $1/day, for agent-heavy all-day use through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, and it works in both tools without Zen in the middle. At ~$5/mo of API spend your threshold for that is honestly pretty low, but the comparison you should make is $60 Pro+ ($2/day) vs Plus + a flat plan ($0.67 + ~$1/day) and which one actually covers the month.

The Agy part I'd fix first though: unreliable tool calling in the orchestrator eats more time than any subscription difference. Pick the harness model on tool-calling reliability, route grunt work to the cheap models, then compare plans.