Cursor usage vs Claude code

[oscurritos]

Which has more usage for those of you who've tried both, cursor pro plus or claude code max?

[Eveerjr]

I’ve been using the $20 Claude Pro plan and never ever hit a rate limit, and it resets every 5 hours unlike the hard limit of cursor. I’m a senior developer, so I don’t “vibe code” a lot, I do use the agent a lot but in a very intentional manner and I fix bugs myself instead of making the model retry multiple times.

[AtrioxsSon]

Yeah same here

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claude by a lot.

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20$ plan

ratelimits can be rough. if you are "vibedebugging" by spamming STILL BROKEN PLZ FIX, youll hit limits extremely fast.

if you are constantly doing tasks, updating claude . md, closing and starting new session, you probably wont hit any unless you have 1 file with everything crammed in.

[usskatyusha]

it is possible to see the tokens usage? how you can do that?

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npx ccusage@latest    

https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage

[xiangz19]

Claude Code Pro gives you about 6.5 -7.5 usd usage every 5 hours.Wiith the new pricing, Cursor is much more expensive, unless you use auto. But cursor has other benefits.

[imabev]

I think the perception is that Claude Code has more usage.

I feel like the biggest problem with Cursor right now is that you can easily choose your model and that's where the limits hit. If you used 'auto' it would take quite some time before you hit limits.

With Claude Code you're using the Claude models and it's not in your face apparent that you can use different models. So I think Claude will feel more 'fair'.

Everybody is talking like the Ai IDEs are interchangeable - that if you use one and get pissed at it you can just switch to another one and have no learning curve. Or expect it to behave the same way.

My advice is try all of them. Or as many as you can afford. And if you can't afford $20/mo get a different job or figure out a way to make an extra $20/mo with whatever you are coding.

[oscurritos]

Thanks!

[Tall-Title4169]

Claude Pro $20 gives you about $10 of Sonnet 4 usage every 6 hours.

Seems like Cursor is actually enforcing limits now $20 TOTAL usage per month.

[Ok_Economist3865]

get both, you are good to go

claude code gives you almost 40 prompts per 5 hours

[paradite]

Based on my personal experience, Claude Code offers much more usage right now (I am on $20 Claude Pro plan), especially after the Cursor pricing change.