Cursor apologizes for unclear pricing changes that upset users

The CEO of Anysphere, the company behind the Acting Acting Coding Environment Index, apologized on Friday for changing the prices badly to the Pro Plan in the month of $ 20. The changes in some users who complain that they have faced additional costs have resulted in unexpectedly.

“We realize that we have not dealt with this pricing well and regret,” Michael Tewel, CEO of Anysphere, told a blog post. “Our connection was not clear enough and it was a surprise to many of you.”

Truell refers to a update on June 16 to the Cursor’s Pro plan. Instead of getting 500 fast responses to the advanced AI models from Openai, Google, and Google, then unlimited responses at a slower rate, the company announced that subscribers will now receive $ 20 of use per month, and API prices. The new plan allows users to run coding tasks in the index through the preferred artificial intelligence model until they reach a $ 20, and then users must buy additional credit to continue using it.

However, professional users moved to social media to file their complaints in the weeks following the advertisement.

Many users said that they ran out of requests in the index to some extent according to the new plan, in some cases after only a few claims when using the new Claude models of humans, which are especially popular for coding. Other users have claimed that they were unexpectedly imposed, and they do not fully understand that they will be imposed extra if they ran to the maximum use of $ 20 and did not specify the maximum spending. In the new plan, only Cursor, which is directed to artificial intelligence models based on capacity, provides unlimited use of professional users.

Anysphere says she plans to recover users who have been unexpectedly shipped, and aims to be more clear about pricing changes to move forward. The company refused to request Techcrunch to comment outside the blog post.

Truell notes in the blog that Anysphere changed the price of the index because “the new models can spend more symbols in every request in the tallest horizon tasks”-and this means that some artificial intelligence models have become more expensive, spent a lot of time and mathematical resources to complete the complex multi-step tasks. The indicator was eating these costs under the Pro Old plan, but now, it is transferred to users.

While many artificial intelligence models have decreased in the price, the edge of performance is still expensive – in some cases, more expensive than ever. The recently launched Claude Obus 4 is $ 15 per million input symbols (approximately 750,000 words, longer than the entire “Lord of the Rings” series) and $ 75 per million output symbols. This is more expensive than the Google 2.5 Pro launch in April, which was the most expensive artificial intelligence model ever.

In recent months, Openai and Anthropic also started charging institutions customers to obtain a “priority” to reach artificial intelligence models – an additional bonus above what cost artificial intelligence models already trusted and high -speed performance.

These expenses may be filtering their way to artificial intelligence coding tools, which seem to have become more expensive throughout the industry. Other famous AI users have been neglected in recent weeks with pricing changes that have made the completion of great tasks with artificial intelligence more expensive.

The index has become one of the most successful artificial intelligence products in the market, as it reached more than $ 500 million in AR to largely through subscriptions in the Pro Plan. However, the founder is now facing intense competition from the artificial intelligence providers on which he relies, while simultaneously discovers how to serve the most expensive artificial intelligence models.

Claude Code was launched from AI Coding, which was recently launched from AI, which was reinforced by the company for the company to 4 billion dollars, and they are likely to take some users from the index in this process. Last week, Cursor returned to the employment of two anthropologists who led Clauds Code.

But if the crossbar intends to maintain its pioneering situation in the market, you will not stop working with modern models-at least, not until its models that are planted locally are more competitive.

So, Anysphere recently entered into multi -year offers with Openai, Anthropic, Google and XAI to make Ultra Independence Plan 200 dollars per month with very high limits. Jared Kaplan, the co -founder of the Arthur, told TECHRUNCH in June that he intends to work with Cursor for a long time.

However, it definitely appears as if the pressure between the acetic and the developer of the artificial intelligence model is built.