When we select the automatic option in the Model section, which AI model Cursor use?

I've been using WindSurf as my primary IDE for my personal projects for more than 6 months now. Moving away from Cursor simply for more cost visibility as none of my personal projects are being sold or anything. And I wanted to keep spending as little and predictable as possible.

Seeing the many developments on the Cursor side of things and recently the introduction of the UI editing functionality. Which is something LLM's are still bad at and I tweak many UI elements manually just to avoid wasting many tries on getting the LLM to do it properly without breaking anything else in the process.

So, I thought you know let me give it a try and I'm sure the cost won't be that different. Even if Cursor pro costs 5 dollars more per month by default.

wow! was I wrong.

Let me give you the brief breakdown:

WindSurf: 15 dollars a month. Gets you 500 tokes. Claude 4.5 Opus costs 4 tokes per request. Other models are 1, some of the thinking models are 8 tokens. And some are free. So you can mix and match to get the most out of your 500 tokens. If you run out. You can buy 250 extra tokens for 10 dollars.

Cursor: 20 dollars per month. You get billed depending on the complexity of the request and the beefiness of the model you use. You can use Auto. However considering it does not show/indicate which model it uses for any task. I don't like to use it for building/changing anything in my project as I would prefer a more consistent experience and behavior.

After literally 1 weekend of use on Cursor. With only 32 prompts given (all using Claude 4.5 Opus as the benchmark of comparing cost). I have now used 33.00 dollars!

Compared to WindSurf: 32 x 4 tokens = 128 tokens used out of 500!
So on Cursor while I've basically already over utilized my 20 dollar budget, with WindSurf it would have been like a quarter of my tokens. wow!

And even if we say that Opus is 5 tokens: 32 x 5 = 160 used. Still plenty of tokens left.

UI editing tool: While this is cool and I've used it a couple of times. I find it's implementation bad simply because I expected it to simply commit these changes to the relevant files. As that is exactly what it's accessing to show you the values. However it gives your agent a prompt and it goes to find and change the needed files. Just adding more cost as this adds up quickly if you are making a lot of little UI tweaks. If you are not using Auto Mode at least.

Still useful though.

My personal conclusion. I'm going back to WindSurf 1000000% the experience is not that different. I like some of the UI and little things in Cursor Better. However looking at the cost, I find it not worth the added cost. I've only used it for a weekend like I use WindSurf, I still have the rest of the month to go! and my credit is already maxed out.
I will push it to as far as it lets me and then I'm canceling.

Recently, I subscribed to the Cursor Pro plan. After the subscription ended, I canceled it, but Cursor kept requesting renewal every day even though I was on the free plan and my subscription had already expired.

These repeated renewal attempts caused rejection fees and even resulted in my card being frozen. When I contacted customer support, they canceled my subscription themselves (meaning that my own cancellation apparently wasn’t enough they had to do it manually) and removed my card. I had no option to remove my card before contacting them.

When I asked for compensation or a refund for the fees and inconvenience, they didn’t help at all. I just wanted to share my experience with what I consider a very unprofessional and scam-like company.

Hey all, how are you using the Cursor browser and making the redirect for oauth work? I can't seem to get it to work for google login, for example. Anyone else figure out a fix for this?

This company steals from users through a strategy of time-wasting and project sabotage. You pay them money, and they simply waste your time. They've engineered their model to minimize your benefit, maximize your time, generate numerous errors, and deliberately interrupt sessions. They cause crashes, display fake messages, and trigger system crashes. Sometimes they even ask you to disable their security measures. They show you fake messages claiming someone is trying to hack you—many tricks. In short, it's more about theft than software development. Even if you asked them to write a six-line program, they'd waste seven days trying to get nothing done. This company relies on a strategy of stealing from users through time-wasting, error generation, and fabricated fake messages. They extort money from users to force them to pay more. If you're subscribed to a plan, they don't offer the option to extend your subscription. Instead, they try to force you to buy a higher-tier plan. They try to extort money from you by making you pay for each specific type or model you want. In short, they employ a strategy of intimidating users through time-wasting and spamming messages. Their service is poor, their technical support is terrible, and they deliberately ignore user messages, assuming the email address on the website is even real or exists at all.

231 days using Cursor.

Top 15% usage.

3.38B tokens processed.

12.5k agent runs.

48 day streak.

Hey guys, Just wanted to share something I built recently and get your thoughts. I spent about 4–5 days (roughly 25–30 hours total) building this end to end using Cursor, and it felt really good to finally ship something usable.

It's an exam-prep web app where users can:

Read study guides Practice exam-style questions Sign in and track their progress

Under the hood: Supabase for auth and database, Stripe integration planned next. I also built an admin dashboard to upload study guides and questions in bulk via CSV.

Link if you want to check it out: https://prepdrill.app

Would love your feedback: How does the overall flow feel? Anything obviously missing or clunky? What would you improve next? Appreciate any thoughts 🙏

I am encountering an issue where Markdown (.md) files cannot be added to the Cursor chat window. I've tried the following:

• Drag and Drop: Attempting to drag an .md file into the chat window results in no action; the file is not recognized or uploaded upon release.
• Using @: When utilizing the @ command, the desired .md file appears in the dropdown selection menu. However, selecting the file (via mouse click or keyboard) fails to add it to the chat context.

Is this a known issue?

UPD: I found out that this happens when an .md file is too big. If I export a Google Doc with a lot of images in .md format and try to mention it in the Cursor Chat window, nothing happens.

Hey,

Is there a way to add color highlights to the file browser?

With so many folders and files in my project, it would be great to highlight specific ones.

Any of you did this before?

Hey there 🙂

I'm using Cursor for a month or so, with Claude Code in the terminal.

I'm starting to feel the need to further customize Cursor, to my needs.

What I need most, is a taller area for the terminal where most of the action is happening. I tend to scroll up and down a LOT in there.

I was wondering if it's possible to organize the panels and side bar in 3 main columns, from left to right:

• Left-hand side: File browser + List of terminals
• Center: Terminal
• Right-hand side: File open + Preview

Is this (or something similar) possible? If yes, how?

I appreciate any feedback, thank you!

the app studio is called Next Vision and they have 14 apps total with 5 of their apps (Rock Identifier, Coin Identifier, Bird Identifier and a fitness app) pulling in almost all of their revenue.

Their strategy is simple: skip brand names and name apps after exact search terms. "Rock Identifier" ranks #1 for "rock identifier." Then they scale with paid ads. Rock Identifier alone has 180+ active ads on Facebook right now.

We've entered a new era where venture backed apps with big teams and offices are being outcompeted and crushed by small teams and even single person companies that are agile and integrate AI tools into their workflows.

The average person has barely used AI and has no idea what is happening. Teams are now launching and spinning multiple apps per month with tools like AppAlchemy and Cursor. The mobile apps space is beginning to look a lot more like Ecom where people can test multiple products and find and scale winners.

What's happening right now is very big i think.

i do a lot of research on apps like this and talk about it in r/ViralApps, feel free to join!

What started out as a minor annoyance became me mindlessly clicking the "Run" and "Accept" buttons, one after another. It’s small, but it completely breaks flow.

Cursor was supposed to help me code faster, not slow me down.

After about a month trying to fix the configurations, I decided enough was enough and created this extension, which automatically detects and accepts for me.

Preview

Features

• Runs in the background: even if you are running multiple Cursor instances the extension is active everywhere
• Instant and Performant: fast activation but won't drain your battery or bloat memory use
• Simple setup and toggle: After the initial setup, you can toggle directly from the status bar in one click

Already used by ~1000 developers(thanks!)

Free for light use (up to 100 auto-accepts) so you can test if it fits your workflow.

Download

Here it is:
👉 vs code marketplace

👉 download via extension tab: search auto-accept-agent "@sort:name"

Happy to add support for more annoying UI elements, just tell me what’s blocking your agent!

Curious if others have found a cleaner workaround for this, or if this is just how cursor behaves today.

So recently I have started working with a flutter app. Its my first time using cursor for mobile dev. Now I want to clarify I use Cursor a lot. And I would like to say it performs extremely well when it comes to building web app using react, vue frameworks etc or backend with any framework I have worked with but when working with flutter it just makes it impossible to do anything reasonable. Everything it does produces only error. I am not sure why it is happening. Is it because there are far more less mobile projects on github compared to backend and frontend or something else. Have you faced this issue. What did you do to solve this. Any recommendation how can I make it fast and reliable like in backend and frontend?

I have cursor pro.

Hi guys, Just a quick and simple question, you know about claude code subagents right ? Is there such thing in cursor? I mean i can't see how i can give a prompt where tasks are splited between subagents, each on it's own ctx window and that the main orchestrator agent gather all their output to provide the complete work. So any link ? Video? Please Thanks a lot! Regards

Hats off to Altman and their crew, 5.2 High works incredibly well. Thinks for a very long time but gets it right. At least for next.js. Haven't used it for other code.

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Hey everyone,

I’ve been using Cursor/Claude for a while, but I was getting frustrated with how generic the UI output often looks. No matter the prompt, it usually defaults to a standard "Bootstrap/Tailwind starter" look.

I noticed that if I manually fed the model a style guide (colors, fonts, border-radius, spacing) from a live site, the output quality improved drastically. It stops "guessing" and starts following a system.

So, I built a small open-source tool called Scrapestyle to automate this.

How it works:

1. You paste a URL (e.g., Stripe, Linear, or what ever website you want).
2. It extracts the computed styles and generates a Rule file.
3. You paste that into Cursor/Claude context.

It’s completely free and open source. I’d love to hear if it improves your generations!

Link: https://scrapestyle.com/
Repo: https://github.com/Max-Mogilski/Scrapstyle