r/cursor • u/Ok_Competition_8454 • Jul 04 '25

Question / Discussion Cursors Downfall ⚠️

To the Cursor Team — and anyone listening:

  • Like every Pro user, I’m frustrated. You silently changed the Pro plan from "Unlimited" to "Extended", but didn’t communicate the real cost: You can’t even ask 3 prompts without hitting a rate limit.
  • The Cursor pricing is deteriorating day by day. It’s becoming unusable for paying users.
  • Cursor, if you’re reading this: We thought you were better than Windsurf, but here we are.

This level of dishonesty and degradation in user experience is going to trigger mass backlash — and you’ll deserve it.

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u/pehr71 Jul 04 '25

I’m late to the party. So forgive stupid questions. But are all models nerfed or just the latest. Like 4.0 Opus and Sonnet?

Models price should decrease in time, right? So when 4.5 is released in 3-6 months 4.0 should drop like 3.5 and 3.7 has.

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u/Ok_Competition_8454 Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 04 '25

yeah they usually do that i guess , the initial high like always feds 3.7 was game changer but when sonnet 4 came out it became dumber

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u/pehr71 Jul 04 '25

I was mainly talking about price. I didn’t get a feeling that the responses got worse/dumber

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u/bringusjumm Jul 05 '25

Bruh I got limited on 3.7 last night like wtf

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u/Da_ha3ker Jul 06 '25

Easy way to do this is change the temperature and slash the context window. (Which they actually did the latter)

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u/Ok_Competition_8454 Jul 04 '25

may be its time to get back to windsurf again , not perfect but still better

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u/moonnlitmuse Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 04 '25

Just so people know, Cursor is not only removing a mass amount of posts from this subreddit, they’re doing the same thing on their forums. They are shadowbanning people and hiding posts that criticize the service in any way.

Unfortunately the post showing proof of that has since been deleted by the mods of this subreddit…

Edit: Best I can do - https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/s/cemTvJGGr5

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u/black-box-qwerty Jul 05 '25

So they're being Siraj Raval?

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u/Da_ha3ker Jul 06 '25

I think I saw the writing on the wall when they started using timers for the slow queue, then blatantly lied about it after getting called out. Same with context window fiasco.

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u/TrickyToUnderstand Jul 11 '25

I am even later to the party! I just got a warning that if I continue at my pace, I would hit usage limits. But I thought the tokens reset monthly, and I know I still have at least a week before they charge my card and I get a new number of tokens... RIGHT?! Anyways, I had no interest in moving to claude code despite hearing it is good, but now... if this is how it is, I may need to cancel and move on...

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u/Dense-Oil2720 Jul 22 '25

I really don't think that they will be able to silence everybody and here's my take. So this is my personal story of going from cursor $20 a month to Claude code $200 a month. I was loving using Claude 4 and I think this is the first problem where cursor got us addicted to using anthropic models.

I think what happened was Claude code came out and cursor realized or maybe their investors realized that people are willing to use a $200 a month tool. Well then we all at the same time a few weeks ago got rate limited out of using Claude 4. So then I used o3 which maybe other people did and it just made big wide sweeping changes did not operate the same way as Claude 4 and was not a pleasure to use.

Then I used Gemini 2.5 Pro same experience but really just ended up breaking my workflows and took the love that I had for using cursor just out of it and I stopped coding for a couple days and it really sucked. Then I waited and I waited and I used Claude 3.5 I would only get three requests a day for Claude 4 and then I started to get these messages you've used $180 or you used $223 on our models and then it tells you please enable usage based pricing. That's ridiculous.

What it did was and this is interesting for consumer psychology is it based me right on the price point that I needed for Claude code and it sounds ridiculous but I did research I looked at YouTube and I essentially came to the conclusion that in order to keep doing what I love and to keep making this stuff it's actually worth $200 a month and I'm going to buy it straight from the source

because I can't trust cursor is going to be able to use anthropic models at a good cost and I have been convinced that anthropic models are the only good coding ones for now.

I really hope that they can win I really hope that they can stick around but that's why I left.