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Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export
- songhonglei1985 2mo ago[flagged]
- jagged-chisel 2mo agoHiding pricing is always a negative to the customer
- hnnbxu2nwi 2mo ago[dead]
- aroman 2mo agoI was an early and passionate adopter and paying customer of Cursor (since 2023!), but it’s probably been 6 months since I opened it. These days I “write” code with claude code and codex, and read/review it on GitHub. If I need to read it locally, I use a plain text editor. Can someone help me understand what value cursor offers in 2026?
- Kiro 2mo agoThe way they spin up multiple Composer 2.5 before sending it over to the model of your choice is nice.
- kalaksi 2mo agoRecently they also seem to have made big changes that makes Cursor worse for editing code by hand. I'm not sure what they are trying to do, but it doesn't feel like vscode fork anymore. I'm starting to consider alternatives. To answer your question though, to me your workflow seems cumbersome. Cursor is more integrated and more frictionless.
- xixixao 2mo agoI felt the same, but I realized, that if you vibe code more, the changes make sense. Simple example: Should the AI sidebar be on the left, or on the right? At some point they swapped them automatically, which was jarring (maybe a bug). But now I realize that if I'm not the one primarily writing code and navigating it, then I prefer agents in the "primary" position on the left (esp. if I have the browser on the left half of the screen, the agents are in the middle). What annoys me the most about Cursor is the random stuff that breaks (due to its nature of VS Code fork). The tab experience is still unparalleled. The cost might be worse than Codex/Claude sub, but they are all much, much, much cheaper than API pricing, so depends on your POV.
- vorticalbox 2mo agoCursor has two “modes” agent and ide. In agent mode it’s horrible for editing files etc but better if you are juggling multiple chats
- redox99 2mo agoCursor has two benefits 1) It's still an IDE. Because of pricing I mostly use Codex, but I always have a VSCode/Cursor IDE open, thus have to juggle between the two. Working directly in the IDE is more comfortable. For full on vibecoding that might be worse, but when you want to do a deep review of the changes, an IDE is way better than reading a diff on github. 2) It supports every model. It's often very helpful to try different models when you don't like the result of the first.
- pwython 2mo agoCan't VS Code extensions solve your use case?
- redox99 2mo agoI tried the codex extension many months ago but I didn't like it. I use mostly the Codex App, or sometimes the Codex TUI inside the IDE terminal.
- roncesvalles 2mo agoThe Claude plugin for VSC is amazing and basically "solves programming" for me. It's the primary way that I write code now; I even stopped using Claude Code.
- RussianCow 2mo agoThey're not as good. I've tried all the options available a couple months ago, and none of them feel nearly as polished as Cursor. For one thing, Cursor Tab is just far better than any other "next edit" prediction I've used. I also happen to like their agent UI the most, but they don't support ACP, so you can't use it with Claude Code, which was a deal-breaker for me. These days I've switched to Zed, which is good enough (and wicked fast), but I still miss Cursor as an IDE.
- aaa_aaa 2mo agoYou can use Intellij Ides, at least free ones.
- leonvoss 2mo agoI don't think it offers any. I got tired of switching between Codex and Claude plus I wanted to start using glm and kimi so I switch to pi. Then I got tired of VSCode eating up battery and RAM so I moved to Neovim which has barely any efficiency downside anymore since most code is not written by hand and if you know how to use it well it was only maybe 10% less efficient than VSCode to begin with. I am not sure why a heavy desktop application would be better than nvim + pi in terminal which are both super extensible via vibecoding and very light on resources.
- urbsgpw 2mo agoHuh, never thought about that 2nd point - I'm also transitioning to pi, but didn't think to change to neovim as well. I guess your logic holds for claude code users as well though.
- LeBit 2mo agoHow do you diff ? Unless by "text editor" you mean Neovim or Emacs ?
- bakies 2mo agoSounds like on GitHub. That's how I do it too.
- throw1234567891 2mo agogit diff
- roncesvalles 2mo agoCursor Tab is nice when you're hand-editing stuff. Not sure it's worth $20 though. I'd totally buy and forget a $5 Cursor subscription just for Cursor Tab. The $20 price point is just too competitive now and I'd rather use the Claude/Codex plugin over Cursor's agentic coding sidebar.
- bnteke 2mo agocheap cursor tab on its own would be so nice
- brettgriffin 2mo agoLook at Cursor CLI: https://cursor.com/cli https://cursor.com/cli
- esafak 2mo agoDesign mode: https://cursor.com/blog/design-mode https://cursor.com/blog/design-mode
- joinjune 2mo agoIt removes money from your pocket into theirs faster than Claude will take money out of your pocket and into theirs. I was a Windsurf then Cursor user and even provided product feedback to the Cursor team on various aspects of their product but the costs for using it killed the value.
- ronsor 2mo ago> faster than Claude will take money out of your pocket and into theirs Damn, and I thought Anthropic was fast.
- dancemethis 2mo agoCode and reasoning generated by Opus/Fable via Cursor seems to be quite better than Claude Code's for the same prompt.
- teaearlgraycold 2mo agoI'm also confused about Cursor. I use Zed. It seems like whatever Cursor has is pure commodity and yet it's worth billions?
- jkukul 2mo agoYou can use Cursor CLI, it's a terminal agent, just like Claude Code and Codex. I use it sometimes, I haven't opened the actual Cursor IDE in ages. The potential benefit of Cursor CLI (vs CC and Codex) is that you can easily between all major models (by Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, as well as Kimi K3 and GLM 5.2). I found it useful when reviewing work - e.g. I implement using Opus then review using Sol, etc. Models by different providers tend to have different perspective on things and they can find different issues with the code.
- teaearlgraycold 2mo agoZed lets you use Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, etc. all through the same UI. Like you, I use that to cross validate using models from different providers and switch over to GLM 5.2 when I exceed my Claude Code limit.
- tzone 2mo agoI have tried multiple times to switch from Cursor to VSCode + command line tools or VSCode plugin for Claude, but it just doesn't work as well as Cursor itself. Especially if you are doing "remote" development through SSH. If you are doing stuff where you still have to write some parts of the code manually or you have to fix few things here and there that the AI outputs, you still need a real editor.
- nzxt210 2mo agoCursor in agent mode is the same thing as claude code and codex. And now Grok 4.5 included into subscription. It gives you more value, since grok is cheaper and faster version of the Opus.
- nzxt210 2mo agoI also want to believe that Cursor team working on harnesses for much longer then openAI and Anthropic can deliver better results overall. Claude code is being pretty much vibe-coded slop doesn’t give a feel of a good product.
- AussieWog93 2mo agoLook into the /stage-chapters skill for local review. It groups large edits logically into "chapters" (think individual Claude plan steps) that you can review one at a time, and it's local.
- eleventen 2mo agoI'm surprised that their biggest feature has not been mentioned: The permissions model is much less noisy in Cursor. Every 30 seconds in claude you get a new, elaborate, contrived bash command that claude wants to run. It's some combination of 10 things you've already granted permission for, but this one is new! Cursor's auto-review run mode fixes that https://cursor.com/docs/agent/security/run-modes https://cursor.com/docs/agent/security/run-modes I know it's a compromise in security, but auto-review+sandboxing provides a much nicer out-of-the-box experience. I'm happily using Cursor + Composer 2.5/Opus for most tasks.
- blehn 2mo agoEasily switching between models. Re: the local read/edit case, it's a bit more seamless than opening in a separate editor. That's about it.
- fillbookio 2mo ago[flagged]
- slashdave 2mo agoIs AWS listening?
- w29UiIm2Xz 2mo agoNot a single one of these tools tell me how much I just spent when I issue a prompt and it finishes inference.
- cruffle_duffle 2mo agoI sometimes feel it isn’t malicious but that they don’t know the number either.
- slopinthebag 2mo agoLLM generated comments are banned on this site.
- slashdave 2mo agoCursor achieved fast adoption by making it simple to move from Visual Studio code. Double-edged sword. It is also simple to move back to VS code and agent extensions.
- murlax 2mo agoThis is basically what I did. In 2023 I moved from VS Code to Cursor. And in 2025 when Opus 4.7 (or was it 4.6?) did that big leap in December, I switched to Claude Code and VSCode for any edits. I come from Sublime Text so those shortcuts are hardwired in me (which was also the defaults in VSCode). When Cursor hijacked literally every CMD key combo, I got fed up and switched back to VSCode. Maybe I should just go back to Sublime Text now lol, since I really just need a blazing fast code reader.
- est31 2mo agoCursor has an import assistant from vs code settings. Ahere is no assistant for the inverse. Not even for moving between computers (at least a couple of months ago when I had the need haha).
- michimagdesign 2mo agoBut doesn’t vscode’s settings.json have most if not all settings stored inside it? Should be a simple copy and paste.
- slashdave 2mo agoHave your agent take care of it
- btown 2mo agoI am shocked, shocked, that a company that is part of SpaceXAI would become hostile to its existing paying users and partners. This has never happened before in history.
- oooyay 2mo agoCursor was a great introduction to agentic engineering but I've learned their Claude pricing is largely just batch purchases. Their real moat I think is Composer 2.5 because both their agentic and IDE experiences fall short of Codex and Claude Desktop in my opinion. I think their sales will tell you economically they make the most sense and I would probably agree, but cost isn't everything especially when the spread isn't that wide. At this moment, capability is really king. These days I'm using Codex and Claude Desktop with Zen when I need to look at code. Codex's real time audio chat feature (not dictation) is also second to none when paired with their agentic flow.
- jjice 2mo agoGrok 4.5 is them as well now I guess since they're owned by spacex now. I'd consider grok 4.5 the sonnet and composer the haiku (both capable, fast models).
- vorticalbox 2mo agoI actually use grok as my planner and then composer for coding like opusplan in Claude.
- sergiotapia 2mo agoCursor you have a beautiful comeback story, you have a wonderful model with Composer 2.5, and a terrific behemoth with Grok 4.5 now. A top-tier dev ux with the Cursor agent app, why on earth are you squandering this opportunity and behaving this way? You came back from the dead pretty much and now you're pissing it away for what exactly? Do not spite your individual developer customers or you will perish yet again.
- ai_fry_ur_brain 2mo ago[dead]
- dbbk 2mo agoIf they were smart, they'd rebrand Grok to Composer. Nobody wants to use the Nazi model.
- dgellow 2mo agoGiven that cursor has been bought by Musk, the nazi branding might be on purpose
- sergiotapia 2mo agoplease, you're dramatically overestimating who gives a shit about this.
- antonvs 2mo ago“If there's a Nazi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with eleven Nazis.” You’re telling me there are a lot of Nazis we’re going to have to deal with. No problem, we’ve done it before, we’ll do it again.
- veeti 2mo agoIt's Monday morning and you arrive at your comfortable corporate cubicle. You fire up the old Cursor to work on some code and fire off a prompt in "Auto" mode. Without even knowing, the request is routed straight to Cursor Grok 4.5, making you a card carrying member of the nazi party. It must be tiresome to live life worrying about things like this. Thankfully, the International Criminal Court today does not operate with a terminal case reddit brain.
- tosh 2mo agoI can only recommend to regularly measure how many tokens a harness+model combination uses for a certain task There are huge token efficiency/bloat differences between agents while working on the same tasks, using the same model, in the same environment Yesterday I ran 10 agentic tasks using GPT 5.6 Sol in an ubuntu 26.04 vm a couple of times with different harnesses and got vastly different token usage. +-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+ | Harness | API total | Input | Cached | Uncached | Output | +-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+ | smol | 172,807 | 142,334 | 8,704 | 133,630 | 30,473 | | Pi | 427,211 | 392,767 | 137,216 | 255,551 | 34,444 | | OpenCode | 1,564,429 | 1,523,957 | 1,204,736 | 319,221 | 40,472 | | Codex | 3,005,744 | 2,953,154 | 2,649,344 | 303,810 | 52,590 | | Hermes | 3,856,611 | 3,808,231 | 3,167,232 | 640,999 | 48,380 | | Claude Code | 5,073,137 | 5,029,969 | 4,587,008 | 442,961 | 43,168 | +-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+ https://x.com/__tosh/status/2083593799872237680 https://x.com/__tosh/status/2083593799872237680 I'm not surprised that Claude Code is not optimized for an OpenAI model but I was still quite shocked re how much of a difference the harness makes. Disclaimer: I'm working on 'smol' which is a minimalist harness but it's really nothing special, just a minimal system prompt, no skills files, only tool is shell Do not underestimate how much popular harnesses are spamming the context window. The context window is very important.
- esafak 2mo agoSame task? How did the results compare?
- tosh 2mo agothe tasks were all simple agentic tasks like creating a checksum of a file, merging csvs and so on, fixing a makefile pipeline with known 'good' outcomes all harnesses could reach the outcomes, only cost, time, number of tool uses and so on were different (Claude Code failed once in 1 task but I think that was just an unfortunate outlier, the tasks aren't that difficult)
- yojo 2mo ago
- dietr1ch 2mo agoThey just don't want you feel obligated to thank them SO MUCH for hidden better prices
- shevy-java 2mo agoWell ... don't use Cursor. It's really that simple.
- grzes 2mo agocursor is a scam. they pissed me with their UI changes & shady pricing, so i tried claude code recently for the first time and instantly regreted i havent tried earlier
- DoesntMatter22 2mo agoBuilt an awesome 450k line app with composer 2.5 and grok 4.5. I love it
- jmvoodoo 2mo agoI’ve been working on a project to solve this problem with Claude code, codex, etc by recording usage and translating to $ in realtime. Looks like I’ll have to add Cursor support now.
- jjice 2mo agoSaw this at work yesterday. Absolute insanity to do something as user hostile as removing the cost of the service. There's no way to attempt to brand this as anything but negative for the user, and positive for the company. Gotta justify a $60B purchase of an IDE and (at the time) a single, decent model.
- bogometer 2mo agoThe ground-truth is the rudeness is load bearing at human machine interface.
- groestl 2mo agoThe signal is the ceiling.
- cmiles8 2mo agoIf users start questioning the ROI of your AI product just hide the “I” from them. Problem solved.
- xp84 2mo agoAgree, I think these companies want to make token usage opaque. Not dissimilar from an AWS bill at most orgs. Not saying you can’t, with great discipline, using good tags, etc, have a good view of where your money is going. But I don’t see it much. And suspect they want to make it super hard to tell the difference between an engineer making wasteful decisions of how to use AI, and someone getting great “value per token.”
- tanepiper 2mo agoThis month I've noticed that my Cursor model use has gone up faster with Composer 2.5 - I have bothered with Grok yet. Despite the advertised twice-the-usage on Cursor own models I'd say it's burning faster.
- reilly3000 2mo agoCursor has been my corporate vendor for accessing non-anthropic models. Without cost insights and with no ability to proxy API requests its value drops dramatically. They fought hard for a renewal with legacy pricing mode then broke the deal soon thereafter. I’ll be extremely clear to leadership that Cursor usage should be minimized and not renewed. I frankly don’t trust them with IP either, and you shouldn’t either, especially if you’re demonstrably not in a big enterprise.
- surcap526 2mo ago[dead]
- ncr100 2mo agoIt's free? Oh it's priced in "tokens". Kind of (barely) like how Facebook has "friends". Or how a Snickers bar costs $1.99 and not $2. Abstracting meaning of "cost", reducing value of information. Maximizing profits. Enshittification.
- xvxvx 2mo agoElon will be paying his staff in tokens in the future. Grocery stores will have on-demand pricing shown in tokens, and prices will change from the time you pick up the product and you pay at the checkout. It’s Ok, Elon said money won’t exist soon anyway…
- Waterluvian 2mo agoSome people don’t use AI and I don’t get it. My wife has never used AI and yesterday I saw her reading a book made out of paper. I imagine she’s just weighed all the details and options in her mind and plans to french fry tokens from my plate instead of getting her own. And I hate that. I mean, I love her. She’s definitely value-add. But those are my tokens, right? My brain doesn’t do books. I can’t sit on the beach and read. I must always be swimming somewhere meaningful. So I’ll be vibing the next great Canadian web app and she’ll just casually ask, “hey what do you want to do about dinner?” So now I’m asking Copilot to tell me what I want for dinner. And it’s just… c’mon lady get your own tokens.
- bogzz 2mo agoIt sounds like your wife might get left behind by you.
- Waterluvian 2mo agoShe’s definitely not Mars material.
- bogzz 2mo agoShe'll understand when she's clawing at the door to be let into the singularity.
- jonjohnsen 2mo ago(I work at Cursor) You can still see what you’re billed on the Spending page. We did accidentally break dollar costs in the Usage CSV export yesterday while cleaning up an old feature flag. That was not intentional and the CSV export is fixed now. That feature flag also showed a dollar usage graph to some self-serve users. The confusing part was included plan usage shown as $, which is not what you’re billed (on-demand usage is). Some people read it as actual spend, so we decided to remove that graph.
- cebert 2mo agoDo you really think that users on a subscription plan aren’t intelligent enough to know that you are showing dollars at API rates if they weren’t on a subscription plan? This is a terrible change.
- seabass 2mo agoThe circular cost indicator near the context usage indicator was also removed. It is so much easier to accidentally leave an expensive model enabled now and not realize it until you have blown through the included credits. And it is hard to imagine that that wasn’t the point of the change.
- EugeneOZ 2mo ago> You can still see what you’re billed on the Spending page. No, you can not: https://www.pasteboard.co/dNXUdT-h8Giy.png https://www.pasteboard.co/dNXUdT-h8Giy.png If you want to say that "admin can" - it doesn't matter, I'm not going to ping admin every day to check how it goes. I'm not going to ask admin about every session to check how cost efficient a model was.
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- throwa356262 2mo agoElon-ification begins...
- cebert 2mo agoI think most standard users are intelligent enough to know if they’re on a subscription plan, the dollar amounts shown are if they were paying at API rates. This change is ridiculous.
- BrenBarn 2mo agoYet another reminder that the companies providing the AI tools everyone is so gaga over are in it to make money off of you. They can and will engage in rugpulling, deception, and other shenanigans to take your money.
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- gitowiec 2mo agoThat is how company gets greedy. Just archived that thread, wonder if cursor will close and remove it
- thibran 2mo agoNot showing the model cost in the Cursor UI is the biggest failure of Cursor.
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- ungovernableCat 2mo agoDead company, purchased completely via SpaceX stock. Hope it doesn't crash more before the cliff period ends.
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- bluerooibos 2mo agoThey also just ended their referral program without any announcement or warning - referrals page on my account just disappeared, all whilst I'm sending them free traffic. I guess this is to be expected of a now Elon Musk (that Nazi salute guy) owned company. It's a shame - the product was great.
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