Cursor (legacy) Pro: limits and real usage
Legacy Not sold to new customers since The X Subscription launched; existing subscribers keep it until they switch or cancel.
Price: $20/month
Metered in: Dollars of usage (two monthly pools)
Stated limits: Two monthly pools: Cursor Models and Other Models (third-party at provider prices); on-demand usage for extra requests
Resets: Monthly (billing cycle); no rollover
What users report
- Anecdote “Cursor (auto) - 60M tokens / month ($20)” (User estimate from ccusage/Cursor usage stats) source
- Anecdote “Composer with Opus burns through the $20 plan in days.” source
- Anecdote “Combined all 3 tasks Cursor used 2% of weekly and the xAI used 8% but took longer on everything and seemed to do more work.” (u/okdesign, side-by-side test of the $20 Cursor plan vs the $30 xAI plan, read from each plan's usage meter (added 2026-10-17)) source
Limit change log
- 2026-10-12: Cursor moved into The X Subscription: new customers get Free/Plus $8/Premium $30/Super $100/Ultra $200 with a weekly pool shared with Grok; third-party models at API list price (Premium+); $20 Pro becomes legacy-only source
- 2026-08-24: Flat-rate Auto mode ended; Auto bills at routed model's list price source
- 2026-06-01: Teams: Premium seat ($120) added; Standard seat gets more usage source
- 2026-02-11: Individual plans split into two usage pools source
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