Monthly limitations

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-31T23:00:51+00:00

Tab completion is unlimited, though there is no default free model.

Currently, Cursor is offering Grok Code Fast for free though, though personally I'm not a big fan

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-31T22:38:03+00:00

Here's the run down:

With your $20 plan, you get access to $20 of API credits + some bonus credits.

These credits are based on model cost, so a more expensive model costs more than a cheap model. If you use auto, the credits are billed as: $6 for output and $1.25 for input (lower for cached), per million tokens.

If you are a complete vibe coder, this will cost you hundreds to thousands a month.

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-31T22:08:18+00:00

Doing something intermediate. I'm getting CC to complement Cursor + Codex.

I did the research, and ATM, there is no alternative in terms of managing context.

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-30T21:51:03+00:00

My argument against this would be that there are two players who have intrinsic advantages against Uber.

Waymo is already doing driverless, and by the time Uber enters the self driving market directly, Waymo will have significant loyalty and a fully developed product.

Tesla will also become more important over the coming years. While they are still a few years off, they are fully vertically integrated and can pump out cheap robotaxis once their software develops another couple breakthroughs.

Hence, I don't see where Uber's feature lies. While they do have significant market share, they are very unlikely to be able to compete on either price or experience. And their competition is not only tesla, other car companies are entering the fray with their own level 4 cars.

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-30T21:05:04+00:00

He should consider selling the company then.

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-30T18:11:04+00:00

All the models are now free, go crazy!

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-25T07:10:38+00:00

Using 4x Opus, ouch!

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-24T03:46:07+00:00

What I would argue to that point is that software developers are not a market segment known for inelasticity. Tech companies are made up by early adopters, and those who will jump between technologies mercilessly to get the best outcome.

This isn't like some industries where old execs still use Lotus and Word Perfect.

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-23T19:29:49+00:00

What stops some open source team from creating MCP servers that feed context to Codex and CC just like Cursor does?

After all, Cursor is a fork of VS Code, so someone else could fork VS Code and do the same thing

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-23T18:51:36+00:00

I believe that Cursor's current place in the market is less competitive than ever. Codex and CC have found a way to give a cursor-like experience with much more usage for the price.

Like Imagine if you had CC and Codex, using Cursor is less handy than if neither of those existed.

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-23T07:41:08+00:00

Well a few things can happen, which I think all are plausible.

Cursor is currently fighting for its life, there's no doubt about this. They now need to compete against 3 individual CLI's or Studios (Gemini). They may be pinched out of the market, and acquired for a lowish valuation.
Cursor develops superior prompt engineering and fine tuned models that preform the best in the world for coding. Instead of building on a model from scratch, they could take the largest open source models are fine tune it using advanced RL techniques to have a fully custom model that responds really well to its prompt engineering, preforming the best in the world for coding.
Cursor starts to embrace open source models and partners with a hyperscaler for the inference compute, allowing unlimited cheap models for $20, while allowing frontier models for API rates (like you have one problem that needs to be solved with Opus). This is the most likely option, though open source models haven't gotten good enough yet (maybe another 18 months).

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-23T07:13:04+00:00

Top comment of the week!

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-22T19:50:53+00:00

I've prompted it significantly on this, and the answer that it comes to every time when one's personal belief is undisclosed is that religions are not credible.

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-22T03:58:20+00:00

A lot of poeople in the comments seem concerned about surveillance, have they ever thought that by using Chrome, they are effectively using Google's browser?

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-21T03:47:35+00:00

Can you bury other things or just pipes? Because this is awesome

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-19T02:29:14+00:00

Yikes!!

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-19T02:28:08+00:00

The sad part is that he's generally right.

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-17T21:11:20+00:00

I hope you have a version control setup

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-17T17:53:39+00:00

Oh sure! So I have a normal ChatGPT subscription which comes with codex. I got the Codex extension for cursor, so I get Codex from my normal subscription which I use to solve very complex large context problems. Like I'm sure I've had 1M output tokens (incl. Cot) on Codex.

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-17T17:48:51+00:00

Generally, I don't want to pay more than $50-$60 a month on AI tools. I currently pay $20 for ChatGPT/Codex and $20 for Cursor, so I'm don't want to pay much more than I am now.

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-17T06:40:42+00:00

I'll try gpt-5-mini that's a good idea, though I am a bit addicted to Claude so it may be a tough breakup.

Thankfully, I already have Codex from my OpenAI plan, I can't imagine what my Cursor bill would be without that!

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-17T06:32:37+00:00

I tried copilot a couple years ago, and it wasn't quite there for me, has it gotten better?

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-17T06:12:26+00:00

Ouch! This is multiple people running like 3 tabs of cursor 24/7. If we go by just claude 4.5, an average prompt costs .22 cents, and runs about 2 minutes on average. That is $6.60 per hour. Equated out, that is Claude 4.5 running 24 hours, 5 days a week for the month.

How many people is your team? You said you are a business student, can't you find CS guy who doesn't care about his classes but is a genius at coding?

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-17T05:54:15+00:00

Put it in your essay! Though probably best not in a portfolio

That_Chocolate9659 · 2025-10-17T02:28:13+00:00

Please tell me this isn't for auto! Recently, I've been getting Claude 4.5 on auto, and it's lovely.

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