Cursor Official Apology! What I'd Do as Their Manager!
Cursor's pricing controversy explained: What went wrong with their Pro plan changes and how they could fix their AI coding tool strategy.
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《Regarding Our Pricing Clarification》
We take full responsibility for our recent pricing adjustments for the individual version, which we failed to communicate clearly. We strive to build tools you can trust, and these changes have damaged that trust.
Before detailing the pricing mechanism for the new Pro subscription, we want to first commit to you: we will provide full refunds for any unexpected charges that may have occurred in the past three weeks.
Timeline:
June 16: Released original announcement, adjusting Pro plan and launching Ultra plan, the Teams plan remained unchanged.
June 30: We updated the original text and pricing page to improve clarity.
July 4: We apologize here and will provide more details through this article.
How the New Cursor Pro Works
The new Cursor Pro plan provides you with:
Unlimited use of the Tab key and models in auto-completion functionality
$20 monthly allowance for frontier model API usage
Option to purchase additional frontier model usage at cost price
We previously described the included model usage as "rate limiting," which was not intuitive. This is actually a monthly usage allowance pool. When you exhaust the allowance, we still provide a brief grace period beyond the allowance pool.