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Cursor user ditches paid tier over Anthropic model costs

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A user has canceled their subscription to Cursor's premium tier, citing the high cost and poor performance of Anthropic's models. The user found the pricing unsustainable for the quality of responses and experienced significant delays and usability issues with Cursor's TUI. They have switched to using Cursor CLI with Composer 2.5 and praised Anysphere for its improvements. AI

IMPACT Highlights user sensitivity to AI model costs and performance, potentially influencing adoption of premium AI features.

RANK_REASON User opinion piece expressing dissatisfaction with a product's pricing and performance.

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Cursor user ditches paid tier over Anthropic model costs

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  1. r/cursor TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/endgamer42 ·

    Cancelled my CC Max subscription

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>... a few months after having previously moved away from the Cursor IDE.</p> <p>Currently rocking Cursor CLI as my daily driver with Composer 2.5 doing most of the heavy lifting. I'm not sure what Anthropic are smoking, but the cost do anything e…

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