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title: "Clarifying our pricing"
description: "Cursor acknowledges that its individual-plan pricing changes were communicated poorly and says the rollout damaged user trust. The revised Pro plan includes unlimited Tab and Auto usage, $20 of monthly frontier-model usage at API pricing, and the option to buy additional frontier usage at cost; a spend limit is available for users who do not want Auto. The company says it replaced a 500-request monthly allowance with usage credits because token costs vary substantially across models and tasks, while Auto routes requests among frontier models based on capacity. It clarifies that unlimited usage applies only to Auto, estimating the included Pro pool covers about 225 Sonnet 4, 550 Gemini, or 650 GPT 4.1 requests at median usage. Users with unexpected charges from June 16 through July 4 can request full refunds, alongside promised clearer notices, documentation, and dashboard visibility."
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# Clarifying our pricing

[Cursor](https://yomu.fyi/company/cursor) · Michael Truell · Jul 4, 2025

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Cursor acknowledges that its individual-plan pricing changes were communicated poorly and says the rollout damaged user trust. The revised Pro plan includes unlimited Tab and Auto usage, $20 of monthly frontier-model usage at API pricing, and the option to buy additional frontier usage at cost; a spend limit is available for users who do not want Auto. The company says it replaced a 500-request monthly allowance with usage credits because token costs vary substantially across models and tasks, while Auto routes requests among frontier models based on capacity. It clarifies that unlimited usage applies only to Auto, estimating the included Pro pool covers about 225 Sonnet 4, 550 Gemini, or 650 GPT 4.1 requests at median usage. Users with unexpected charges from June 16 through July 4 can request full refunds, alongside promised clearer notices, documentation, and dashboard visibility.

## Context

The pricing rollout for individual plans was not communicated clearly, and the company says the changes damaged user trust. It also says users were not told clearly enough that unlimited usage applied only when Auto was selected, rather than to all models.

## Approach / What changed

Cursor changed Pro from a request-based allowance to $20 of monthly frontier-model usage at API pricing, added unlimited Tab and Auto usage, and offers additional frontier usage at cost with an optional spend limit. It also updated its pricing page and documentation, added usage-limit visibility to the Dashboard, and offers refunds for unexpected usage charges incurred from June 16 through July 4.

## Takeaways

- Pro includes unlimited Tab and Auto usage plus $20 of monthly frontier-model usage at API pricing; additional frontier usage can be purchased at cost.
- The former 500-request monthly allowance was replaced because token usage and costs vary substantially by model and task. Auto routes requests among frontier models based on capacity.
- Users with unexpected usage charges between June 16 and July 4 can contact pro-pricing@cursor.com for a full refund.

**Tags:** [Cursor](https://yomu.fyi/topic/cursor), [Pricing](https://yomu.fyi/topic/pricing)

- Source: [Cursor](https://cursor.com/blog/june-2025-pricing)
- Source URL: https://cursor.com/blog/june-2025-pricing
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-09-02T11:45:47.132Z

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