The Director General of Anysphere, the company behind the popular AI-operated coding environmental course, apologized on Friday for a poorly communicated price change to its $ 20-month professional plan. The changes resulted in some users complaining that they unexpectedly faced further costs.
“We acknowledge that we have not dealt with this price of rolling and we are sorry,” said Michael Truell, Director General of Anypfera Blog post. “Our communication was not clear enough and came as a surprise for many of you.”
Truell refers to Update of 16 June to a pro -plan of cursor. Instead of due to users receiving 500 fast answers to high -level AI models from Openai, Antropic, and Google, and then unlimited answers at a slower pace, the company announced that subscribers will now receive $ 20 use a month, billed at API rates. The new plan allows users to perform code tasks in a cursor with their AI model eligible until they hit the $ 20 limit, and then users need to buy additional credits to continue using it.
However, professional users have taken to social media to present their complaints in the weeks after the announcement.
Many users have said they have exhausted requests in cursor quite quickly according to the new plan, in some cases After just a few promises using the new Claude Models of Antropicwhich are particularly popular for encoding. Other users have claimed they were unexpectedly charged additional costsNot fully understanding that they would also charge if they passed the $ 20 use limit and did not set up a spending limit. In the new plan, only the “automatic mode” of a cursor, which goes to AI models based on capacity, offers unlimited usage for professional users.
Any sphere says it plans to repay users who have been unexpectedly charged, and are intended to be clearer about price changes forward. The company refused Techcrunch’s request for comment beyond the blog.
Truell notices on the blog that any repression has changed the cursor prices because “new models can spend more tokens on demand for longer horizontal tasks”-meaning that some of the latest AI models have become more expensive, spending a lot of time and computing resources to perform complicated, multiple tasks. Cursor ate these costs according to his old professional plan, but now it is delivering them to users.
While many AI models have dropped in price, the most advantageous performance is still expensive – in some cases, more expensive than ever. Recently launched Claude Opus 4 -model Anthropic is $ 15 per million input tokens (about 750,000 words, longer than the entire series “Lord of the Rings”) and $ 75 per million tokens. That is even more expensive than Google’s launch of Gemini 2.5 Pro in Aprilwhich was its most expensive AI model ever.
In recent months, Openai and Antropic have also started loading customers from businesses for “priority” access to AI models – Another prize on top of what AI models already cost, which guarantees a reliable, high -speed performance.
These expenses may filter out their way to AI coding tools that appear to be more expensive throughout the industry. Users of another popular AI -ilo, replication, have also been captured alert in the last weeks of Price changes that have performed large tasks with AI more expensive.
Cursor has become one of the most successful AI products on the market, reaching more than $ 500 million in ARR largely through subscriptions to their professional plan. However, a cursor is now facing intense competition from the AI providers, which it depends, at the same time calculating how to access its more expensive AI models.
The newly launched AI coding tool of Antropic Claude Code was a success with Enterprises, reportedly accelerating the company’s ARR to $ 4 billionAnd probably taking some cursor users in the process. Last week, a cursor returned the favor by recruiting two anthropic employees who led Product Development of Claude Code.
But if a cursor intends to maintain its market leadership position, it cannot stop working with the most modern model suppliers-almenua, not until its own Home models are more rationally competitive.
So Anyphere recently hit multi -year treatments with Openai, Antropic, Google and Xai Offer a $ 200-month cursor ultra plan with very high rate boundaries. Antropic co -founder Jared Kaplan also told Techcrunch in June He plans to work with cursor for a long time.
However, it certainly feels as if the pressure between cursor and AI model developers build.
