Cursor stealthily doubled the price of Claude-3.7-Thinking in a changelog

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42 points·rvnx··4 comments

Related: I've been pretty frustrated with cursor that you can't call any APIs directly, and it all has to go through their backend. Along with this, they have essentially refused to fix bugs in their custom API key page for months, forcing you to use their "1st party" tokens.

You may be happy with RooCode if you want to use direct APIs if you want (there are tons of supported backend).

The minus of it, is that it is super expensive, unless you have some tricks (you can reuse the LLMs of GitHub Copilot Pro like Claude Anthropic for example, but there is a quota, you can also use Gemini Flash 2.0 Experimental for free at 15 requests per minute, etc.).

Cursor seems to have the ultimate “free” users waste the most time problem.

Frankly, anyone who’s actually serious about using Cursor has 0 issue with this change. Cursor is a ridiculously good deal. I use it literally all day professionally an d it costs me $60/month (buying extra credits).

I’ve had single days with RooCode where I’ve burned that much on API calls directly to Claude.

I have none of the issues the main communities have with it.

Cursor's ultimate problem is indeed people requiring more than they pay in.

The problem is that seems to include paying users:

> I’ve had single days with RooCode where I’ve burned that much on API calls directly to Claude.

They aren't charging what requests actually cost to users. BYOK users constantly mention it's more expensive than their native plans.

Seems a bit early to assume that as they turn the screws to fix the cost situation, free users will be the only ones left upset.

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