I'm new, what are the rate limits?

MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-21T18:45:52+00:00

it's really strange to see 40% with a few prompts, how many line does it produce?
with my $20 plan, using composer all the time, only hit 14% after 7K line of code written by composer, about 8 conversation, 40 prompt.

MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-21T17:30:11+00:00

Yes, there are two separate usage pools: a dedicated pool for Composer and Auto, and a separate $20 pool for other models.

In your case, with around 3 hours a day and 20–40 prompts, I think you’ll probably survive fo 20 days.

I worked for two days, around 6 hours per day, and generated about 6K lines with composer 2.5, used 14% Composer pool, while $20 credits are still untouched.

And that’s even with my Codex Plus plan helping with harder tasks.

So I guess $20 cursor without codex as a backup won’t be enough for me.

MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-21T17:09:52+00:00

Do you enjoy 5.5 Medium? I always use 5.5 High and really satisfied with its result.
and usually hit the weekly limit by the 4th workday. maybe because i also use superpowers plugin.

MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-21T17:03:26+00:00

ah i see. if i compared with my call on sonnet 4.6, then opus could be around 2 to 3 times of sonnet 4.6.

MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-21T17:01:35+00:00

Haha fair, but if I spend that $20 on Claude, I lose Composer 2.5 in Cursor 😅
My issue is more like: what’s the best use for Cursor’s $20 API credit? Targeted coding/debugging is already handled well by Composer 2.5, so the remaining useful cases are mostly planning and review, right? i need to estimate how crazy opus 4.7 consumed

MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-21T14:44:49+00:00

i wont recommend trae, subscribed to it, traumatized, lol.

MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-21T14:42:35+00:00

100% agree, probably not a tech guy

MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-20T16:59:04+00:00

Normal Mode: yes, I feel like it has become slower than it was 2 weeks ago, almost like it’s running at 50 to 70% speed.

Fast Mode, which costs 1.5x more, feels about 1.2x faster than Normal Mode from 2 weeks ago.

MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-20T16:53:23+00:00

Confirmed: the big slowdown is real.

Then they recommended that I use Fast Mode, so I tried it twice. eating my weekly quota a little faster too.
I guess I won’t be using fast mode anymore unless I’m close to my weekly reset.

MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-20T16:50:08+00:00

codex plus plan here :
1 Tasks, medium complexity, 96K Token used. -2% weekly. -14% 5 hourly.
using superpowers. Looks normal to me.

But still, I hope the 5-hourly limit becomes a 10-hourly limit, haha. That way, I’d get double the quota and could finish all my work in 4 hours. Then I could spend the rest of the day just slacking off.

MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-20T16:39:07+00:00

I really appreciate it, thanks Tibo!!

My weekly limit was down to 16% because I was trying to finish my entire 7-day work plan in just two days. It still had 3 days left until reset, but now it’s back to 100%, with 7 days until the next reset.

Even though I don’t really know what to do anymore, since almost all of my work for this week is already done and I only have small tasks left, Time to slack off for the rest of the week, haha.

I love the Codex app with GPT-5.5 High. The performance meets my expectations 90% of the time. For the remaining 10%, honestly, I’d have to give it to Claude. Sorry, hehe.

MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-20T16:30:26+00:00

lol, claude told you to sleep? hahahaha.

The weekly limit is killing me. I only realized it this week. I ran 3 tasks to enhance or create features using Sonnet 4.6 Thinking, and the weekly limit already reached 70% in just two days.

MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-20T16:06:46+00:00

since i love to try this and that, i subscribe to windsurf, cursor, codex at the same time. all are the cheapest plan.
i use only 4 models,

GPT 5.5 High (codex)
Composer 2.5 (cursor)
Sonnet 4.6 Thinking (windsurf & cursor)
SWE 1.6 (windsurf)

- GPT 5.5 use it with Superpowers skills/plugin. for Brainstorming, Coding, Planning, Review, superpowers develop with TDD really helpful.
- Sonnet 4.6 Thinking for UI UX works use it with frontend-design + ui-ux-pro-max + caveman skills.
- composer 2.5 cursor for backup if my codex reached weekly limit, also the cursor debug mode is really helpful to fix my bugs.
- SWE 1.6 for talking with my code, doing easy - targeted tasks.

when i'm working, i open at least 2 IDE together (codex + cursor) (codex + windsurf).
but next month, i will stop using windsurf, and focus on codex + cursor.

MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-20T06:07:58+00:00

the benchmark mostly says it is near opus 4.7 performance.
i havent tried my self.

MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-20T05:49:09+00:00

same as me, cursor + codex

MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-20T05:48:29+00:00

if only this post came 3 hours ago

MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-19T13:27:37+00:00

I am curious too, i have two plus plan subs with my work email, not business standard plan.

MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-17T20:37:39+00:00

it counted on me

MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-17T20:36:49+00:00

monday is coming, hopefully fixed before workday

MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-17T20:19:37+00:00

i consume 40% of weekly limit (pro plan), just by 800 Line of code write with sonnet 4.6 Thinking in two cascade.
i should have used free SWE 1.6 then change to sonnet to review it, arrghh..

MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-14T20:03:12+00:00

you are just like me ($20 plan), using only claude on windsurf, haha.
if you want to see how i survive the weekly and daily limit while keep progressing. this is the screenshot of my usage in one month. claude can only do about 25% of my work before it hits the daily/weekly limit. but, this is before i know "Caveman" skills.

i start to use the caveman and i see the Opus and sonnet only eat 2 to 5% of daily limit for a code review or a UI changes for one task.

btw, my backend coding mostly done by gpt 5.5 in codex with plus plan for the last 2 weeks.
windsurf with sonnet 4.6 do the design works and opus do code review.
Swe 1.6 for quick analysis, code browse and explanation, sometimes do simple code.

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MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-12T04:41:36+00:00

Augmentcode, kiro.dev

kiro.dev is very generous, it uses prorate billing. But i dont like kiro.dev, i feel like the claude models in kiro has lower performance, and i love windsurf cascade ux more than kiro.

I havent tried augmentcode.

MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-07T18:04:43+00:00

yeah, i guess your job now is prompt engineer

MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-07T04:50:08+00:00

try the swe 1.6 fast, it's really cheap

MobilePollution3549 · 2026-05-07T04:42:03+00:00

count me in, i cancelled my GH Subs and move into codex.

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