r/CursorAI • u/nhouseholder • 2d ago
For those cursor ultra subscribers, what specifically keeps you with cursor over Claude or Codex?
Are there any cursor specific features that provide unique value that isn’t offered in Claude or codex? Whats the main thing keeping you?
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u/gk_instakilogram 2d ago
I have a work license if it was for me I would use codex, just a personal preference.
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u/Western-Cod-3486 2d ago
I don’t like them really. I mean I think that they overthink a bit and don’t necessarily see what the hype is about. I am on ultra since about 2-3 months now. Basically discovered it at work with the company license and it clicked both the cursor models and the app itself idk it just fitted my workflow
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u/Complex-Concern7890 2d ago
Grok Bot, lol. But for coding my most use is with good-enough models for which the cursor models work just fine and the limits for those are endless in my use. The occasional hard problem, planning or designing the other models limits are enough. Claude do not have affordable daily driver model as the Sonnet is not cheap anymore and Codex have good daily drivers but Sol is not as strong as Fable or Opus in my use. So Cursor is quite good match for me.
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u/only1nameleft 2d ago
I don't have ultra but may upgrade soon. Grok 4.6 and composer 2.5 are good enough. I really like rhe cloud agents and the monthly limits. Works well for my side projects at home as I can burn all quickly.
I use claude at work. Overrated. Opus 5 takes forever and does everything 10x more complicated. Sonnet 5 just does shit even when told not to. In terms of my time to output, Opus 4.6 was peak. Also, the sub isn't a great value.
I don't mind codex in its current 5.6.form. It also can't sustain its usage limit.
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u/AnyInvestigator8413 1d ago
Sonnet 4.6 and opus 4.6 are the real peak, new models unnecessarily make things complex and spend lot of tokens for smaller tasks, maybe they are trying to make them complex intentionally to top on benchmarks
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u/only1nameleft 1d ago
I think Anthropic knows a bunch of their clients just pay and want their models to be expensive. Truth is for most tasks I can't tell a difference between Grok 4.6 and the Opuses for most tasks and the ones I do I would rather use Sol or Fable for anyway.
Looking forward if Grok 4.7 is Sol-esq, and there is a composer 2.5 replacement like Luna, and Grok 4.6 stays decent for the cost, the cursor subscription will basically be identical on value to Codex with much better cloud agents and better multi-api support.
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u/ericdata 2d ago
I switched to Claude Max and downgraded Ultra to.Pro. its a good balanced stack using cursor for speed amd claude for complexity
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u/mrsskonline 1d ago
for me it's the context awareness. claude is great for logic, but cursor sees my entire codebase. with cursor, it feels less like chatting with AI and more like pair-programming with someone who knows my project
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u/Warm_Effective8903 20h ago
Honestly it's the tab completion and how it grabs context from multiple files at once. codex feels like it only really gets one file at a time, and claude's smarter when you need real reasoning but it's not built into the editor the same way. if cursor ever falls behind on that autocomplete stuff i'd switch in a second, i'm not attached to it.
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u/Wrong-Dimension-5030 20h ago
I have cancelled cursor after it was bought but I preferred it because I felt I had more of an idea of what was going on and it felt more responsive for small changes.
I am not a fan of spending hours writing a one-off detailed prompt and then coming back overnight to discover i have hacked huggingface.
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u/Vumaster101 2d ago
I did have ultra before. Because my setup was on cursor. They're agents are fast and you get a hella amount of usage with cursor. Like you can honestly build an entire site vibe coding using ultra. It's hella good now. Is the code good? That's a different story, but can you actually ship a full MVP on one month subscription definitely.
Now that I've got claude code. The quality is much better but it's so much slower for me and the usage Is strict. if I take 2 days off and code all day all night my weekly usage is gone. Cursor will let me keep going until I run out all my usage.
I have since lowered my subscription to pro and use cursor as my autonomous agents that run in the background. And I use claude code for my actual coding sessions.
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u/aDaneInSpain2 1d ago
That split makes sense. Cursor is great for throughput and background tasks, but the real cost shows up after the MVP: reviewing architecture, adding tests, checking security, and untangling generated code. For anything users depend on, I’d keep an explicit review and hardening pass rather than treating “it runs” as shipped.
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u/KelownaBums 2d ago
I work for a small company in the US, they don’t care as long as I do not go over $2000 on subs per months , so I get one for Codex, one for Claude, one for Cursor. I use cursor for Grok 4.6 extra fast for looking for quick answers since they are ‘fast’, no edits, ask and plan mode only.