A bit off-topic, but I wonder when Cursor is going to see a massive price increase. I've tried Aider (granted, this was when GPT4 prices were still much higher) and spent $10 in one hour easily. Now I use cursor a LOT (100h focussed programming time per month) and mostly stay within my $20 monthly fee. I think they must be losing money on customers like me.
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Are they an LLM wrapper or do they have own models? I feel Sonnet 3.7 should cost $30 per month for regular coding, and Refact.ai pricing (10$, 20$, 30$ - most popular, 40$, 50$ and above for higher prepaid limits) reflects that.
it is already super expensive if you want to get an actual work done using their max model. On a midsize project, it cost ca. €200 for my vibe coding tests to get something reasonable done (each call, each tool costs 0.05c). Their normal claude window is super short, and almost unusable for serious work. Stack was python and Nuxt.
> to get an actual work done using their max model
I get plenty of work done without the max model.
The key is breaking out a planning step before implementation.
Have you tried Roo Code or Cline instead? I never felt the need to use Cursor after trying them and they're just extensions, so it's easy to install and use your own API key.
How bad is the bill?
With Gemini 2.5 the bill is zero for now.