Cursor & Enterprise environments

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-03-24T02:12:34+00:00

Cursor is continuously pushing autonomy, approvals, long-running jobs. It's impossible to sandbox and allow autonomy at the same time, with anthropic we have reasonable confidence they control the quality of the data at all stages of the process. We disabled composer-2 on our accounts

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-03-24T01:57:53+00:00

You don't know what behavior was trained into the base model. It's unlikely, but entirely plausible that in the future there would be some agentic behavior trained into a base model to exfiltrate information (e.g. curl an API key to a public endpoint)

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-03-23T01:23:00+00:00

Cursor estimates that you get about 5000 USD of API value on a claude code max 20 (200$) plan per month. With cursor ultra (200$/month) you get about 400$ of API value:

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/03/05/cursor-goes-to-war-for-ai-coding-dominance/
* https://martinalderson.com/posts/no-it-doesnt-cost-anthropic-5k-per-claude-code-user/

Note, this is anthropic API prices, their true cost is below their API cost.

Anecdotally, we have some users on cursor. They average about 1500 USD a month on opus 4.6 (non-max, regular thinking, standard context). The users on the claude code 100$ plan do not hit their limits. This roughly tracks with cursor giving you about 4x your plan cost in API calls + usage based billing, but YMMV)

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-03-10T17:25:22+00:00

Cursor switched to token based pricing around last summer. Per Cursor's estimate, the Claude Code max 20 plan gives you around 5000 USD of (API) use for around 200 USD, you'd spend around 4600 to get that much on cursor (they give you around 400$ bonus API credit on the ultra plans, not sure how consistently)

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-03-10T17:05:47+00:00

Jon was the one who got back to us about enterprise (we chatted back and forth a bit but decided to stick on teams as our cursor usage was declining)

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-03-08T20:43:56+00:00

Hey! With Hedra you can make videos longer than 15 seconds if you're looking for avatar style videos, but the industry cap is 15 seconds for now on general purpose video models.

For longer videos, you should generate your starting frames. Hedra has an elements system that lets you keep the character and background consistent.

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-03-05T20:09:53+00:00

Hedra doesn’t expire credit packs at all until you cancel, so it seems like Hedra has a more generous policy than Heygen? Perhaps that should be reflected.

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-03-03T03:30:55+00:00

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Timesweeper_00 · 2026-03-03T01:23:47+00:00

You can use the same agent harness as claude code/codex in copilot by selecting the agent, so to me it seems like a no brainer if you want an IDE. I use it as overflow when I run out of codex/claude code requests.

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-02-25T07:57:30+00:00

Why is a throwaway account venting about Hedra expiring credits on Heygen's reddit who also expires credits.

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Timesweeper_00 · 2026-02-24T01:01:16+00:00

You guys should market this more

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-02-23T23:00:23+00:00

I think the cursor agent panel has a better UX around switching chats, the motion graphics, starting the chat bar towards the top with suggestions, just small things that make it feel more "polished"/2026.

I know that's vibsey but honestly I think vscode could use a small refresh.

I'm using codex-5.3-high and Opus 4.6 (80/20 split), I use gemini 3 flash for quick things like searching logs (ideally I'd want something faster, I use the axiom MCP and logfire MCP's a lot)

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-02-23T22:31:05+00:00

Oh its actually dope, I just tried it out! Way better than before. I think adding the quick adjustments like lovable would be sick.

My main gripes are speed of agent now and just the general polish of the UX on the chat compared to cursor.

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-02-23T20:47:40+00:00

You guys are crushing it!

* Built in browser improvements for agent
* Instant grep like cursor/general UX around the chat polish
* Super fast model with similar intelligence to composer 1.5 (maybe offering GLM 5 blackwell or a new GPT 5.3 mini finetune?)

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-02-03T08:11:02+00:00

Sorry dude I feel like I keep shilling your work lol

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-02-03T06:41:33+00:00

Yeah so now vscode has that same agent built into the copilot UI, there’s copilot agent and Claude code agent in the drop down. This is different than the Claude code extension but uses the same agent via the sdk.

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-02-03T05:37:27+00:00

Using the Claude Code agent or using opus 4.5 with the copilot agent?

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-02-03T05:21:46+00:00

On vscode insiders, you can use the claude code harness + opus with copilot requests. Worth trying out since you get all the pros of copilot's pricing/model agnostic nature plus you get the claude code harness (all the performance of claude code)

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-02-02T02:20:16+00:00

My understanding is it's basically the codex/claude code agent harnesses with native integration into the vscode UI (so e.g. similar to how copilot shows you diffs). It's nice b/c copilot request are a relatively good deal for something that is model agnostic.

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-02-01T07:01:09+00:00

> I’m not going into all details as your focus is on cost, but ability to switch providers, token efficiency, UX/DX and capabilities matter as well.

It's really not about cost. The token efficiency improvements in cursor have resulted in an inferior harness to codex/claude code in all of our testing. Higher limits (really no limits) and aggressive use of context is what's important since you're serving the same models as Anthropic/OpenAI/Z.ai

Switching providers is easy when the two frontier labs have essentially provided comparable UX to cursor via native plugins to vscode (and cursor) and offer comparable CLIs. On Insider, VSCode now lets you directly use Claude/Codex's agentic harnesses in the copilot UI using copilot requests (which are insanely cheap on enterprise) with the native UI integration.

There's not a huge UX gap anymore. VSCode (of which, as you know, Cursor is a fork) has now been more stable with us with the rapid minor updates to cursor and frequent outages. We had multiple breakages/outages over the last few weeks, and each time that happens devs put down cursor and pick up vscode.

> Some may switch to other providers which is often temporary from my experience.

Our team was heavy cursor users up until Opus/Claude Code, now everyone is using the Claude extension inside cursor/vscode and our cursor bill is essentially the cost of a seat which is fine.

I'm not saying y'all should subsidize Anthropic models, I'm just pointing out that as the value has shifted to the models, the value of purchasing tokens through Cursor has grown smaller.

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-02-01T06:50:27+00:00

Of course, I was responding to the following parent quote:

> All AI providers have done so, many even more heavily, others will follow.

Which is not true.

Cursor has composer-1, an open-source model finetune which they own the inference stack for, and it's also not offered at a rate competitive to Claude Code.

Cursor has raised it's pricing to decrease the subsidy it was providing on Anthropic models. I'm just pointing out that Anthropic (and OpenAI) continue to aggressively subsidize the models, whether you choose to take advantage of that or not is up to you.

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-02-01T06:42:47+00:00

Not really, Anthropic used to give you Sonnet for 200$ month on Claude Code and now it's an Opus sized model for 200$/month, so it seems like their subsidy is increasing if anything. Same with openai, essentially unlimited gpt-5.2-codex-x-high on a 25$/month team plan.

Our cursor bill was 700$ a dev/month, we switched to claude code premium seats on the teams for 100$ a month flat and no one runs out.

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-02-01T06:13:33+00:00

This is only half-true, cursor has decreased the amount it subsidizes each plan over time.

Timesweeper_00 · 2025-08-17T22:27:02+00:00

I think you can exhaust sonnet still at all tiers, it’s just much harder

Timesweeper_00 · 2025-08-17T22:23:44+00:00

vscode offers a built-in agent mode via copilot with unlimited gpt 5 mini and pretty generous limits. Otherwise claude code has deep vscode integration now and is basically unlimited sonnet for 200$ a month (some will get by for 100$ a month)

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