“Cursor has to pay Anthropic's retail API prices (or close to it) for access to Opus 4.6. So to provide a Claude Code-equivalent experience using Opus 4.6, it w

“Cursor has to pay Anthropic's retail API prices (or close to it) for access to Opus 4.6. So to provide a Claude Code-equivalent experience using Opus 4.6, it would cost Cursor ~$5,000 per power user per month. But it would cost Anthropic perhaps $500 max.” Cursor seems to be in a tough spot. Just heard the swix podcast on their big new cloud agents thing, and it’s looking like a pretty small moat these days.