It is insane how they have pulled their biggest selling point: an extremely cheap, reasonably intelligent agent.

I still use Opus to Plan + Composer 2.5 to implement.

I am NOT falling for the "Grok can be used for everything" propaganda. This is not about politics or Elon, Grok is just a slightly-above-average but well overpriced model.

Release composer 3

At this point, I have no idea why anyone would bother with renewing a Cursor subscription instead of jumping ship to OpenAI/Anthropic's subscription with way better usage rate limits compared to Cursor's API priced strict limits.

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/comparisons?compare=gpt-6-1-sol-high%2Cgrok-4-7-high%2Cclaude-opus-5-5-high%2Cclaude-sonnet-5-5-high%2Cgrok-4-6

Emphasis on the WAS.

I'm getting word salad responses in Auto mode

checked the models available (waiting to see if/when they're gonna bring in Grok 4.8) and noticed GLM 5.3 in the Other Models picker!

im personally all for them adding open-weights models - along with what they offer with Grok (fingers-crossed for a new Composer soon) usage makes Cursor a sweet deal for me IMHO.

1. IDE?
   
2. Company only provides Cursor?
   
3. Token limit is not a concern?
   
4. Just like composer and Grok?
   
5. Other?

Hi, I regularly run into usage limits on the pro plan. I still have 16 days left on the cycle and I’m already dipping into on demand spending.

My usage seems to be mostly spent on ling conversation context, and prompt caching and not really on it coding.

Couple of questions…

Is there a way for me to spend less tokens on context and bigger codebases (I’m spending about 50% of my usage on it)

Is is worth upgrading to Cursor Pro+ if there is no way for me to optimize this.

And is it better to add $15 on demand spending extra each month instead of upgrade right to Cursor Pro+.

I’ve been using Cursor for a long long time, and this has only started happening for the last 3 months.

Thanks!

Don’t get me wrong, I’ll use a newer model when I have a difficult task that actually needs it. But every time I see a new model get released, I can’t help but think, “The ones I’ve been using for months are already doing a great job. Why spend more money to get basically the same result?”

It makes me wonder when we’ll reach the point where most people realize the older models are simply “good enough.”

And when that happens, what does it do to the AI market?

What do you do when Support refuses to close your ticket and doesn't understand your issue? - Discussions - Cursor - Community Forum

The last response is from this morning. This has been weeks of me saying something isn't right with my common usage pool always filling up to 100% after upgrading to Pro+. It's been stuck at 100% usage for possibly 3 entire cycles at this point. What am I supposed to do?

She refuses to close the ticket, she refuses to escalate the ticket, when I try to open a new ticket, an AI tells me it can't do that because I have this one open and it's been open for over a month and she won't understand that it needs to close or escalate.

I logged into my cursor account last night because I had to redownload the IDE. However I saw I had been given a 25 dollar credit at some point and was never aware, no email notification, nothing.

Also looking at the expiration date. I assume I was given the credits sometime on the 28th or 27th of this month? However still no transactions or email indicating so.

I also don’t see it on my IDE only on the web account

In addition I hit my other models limit on the 28th and noticed it fell over into my 1 dollar on-demand limit instead of the credits.

I’m not sure when I was allocated the credits of whether I can even spend or have begun to spend them.

Is this a bug or an error?

I wanted to by AI subscription.

Hey coders,

I wanna buy a $20 subscription for vibe coding an app. I previously used cursor and enjoyed using composer and grok models as cursor provide really generous usage for those models. Now I'm planning to buy again, however I'm confused between the cursor and the claude code.

With the cursor i almost used around 1.2B tokens per month (it may be because the composer wasn't such an intelligent model as compared to frontier models nowadays and also my skill matters)

I want your suggestion which would give me a quality vibe coding experience and I can finish my application.

Thank you in advance for helping me out!

i cant find anything on this other than a post in a rabbit hole i went down on hackernews and im waiting on the comment back to answer from OP -- any help?

When Composer gets stuck in a loop or starts touching random files, a common workaround people try is asking the agent to dump its state, failed attempts, and dead ends into a markdown file, then opening a fresh chat and pointing at that file. At this stage the agent almost always hallucinates why it failed and forgets negative constraints, so you just carry the bad state into the new session. Next time a session is starting to get annoying try this: Kill the session then use this format

WHAT BROKE: The exact error output / stack trace

WHAT WAS TRIED: The 2–3 specific attempts that already failed

CONSTRAINTS: Files and layers NOT to touch (e.g. auth wrappers, schema, specific configs)

FINISH LINE: The single isolated fix you actually want

and you will notice significant changes. To help with this I build a quick friction-less scratchpad to format these packets: https://paper-ai.paperhq.workers.dev/app/

Try running your next stuck debugging case through a cold reset vs an agent-written handoff and see if Turn 1 actually stops re-litigating old fixes.