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How would they make money from the tokens then haha? The main revenue driver of these companies is to get people to use more tokens. That’s what they will optim
by adityamwagh 6mo ago
How would they make money from the tokens then haha? The main revenue driver of these companies is to get people to use more tokens. That’s what they will optimise for. Getting the developers out of the way is the way to do it.
- Archonical 6mo agoIsn’t Cursor’s business model mostly subscriptions? They’re the ones paying for inference, not the user directly, right? So wouldn’t they be incentivized to minimize token usage per unit of user value, not maximize raw tokens?
- bb1298 6mo agoNope. Enterprise you pay for seat to access all of the enterprise features and then you just pay for tokens as you go. Vast majority of their actual revenue comes from enterprise and their revenue is just api pass through to the model providers.
- fweimer 6mo agoIt's pay-as-you-go after a certain number of included requests/tokens: https://cursor.com/docs/models-and-pricing https://cursor.com/docs/models-and-pricing
- adityamwagh 6mo agoI think enterprise users have a API for the whole company do pay as you go? I believe that’s where they make the most money.
- moregrist 6mo agoDoes Cursor make money from tokens? I thought it was primarily a user of Anthropic and OpenAI APIs, so the fewer tokens you use to accomplish a task, the higher their margin.
- rnxrx 6mo agoGemini is featured just as prominently, and they've most recently been pushing their own model series (Composer).