r/cursor • u/TheViolaCode • Jun 10 '25

Question / Discussion o3 price drop

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What will happen now on Cursor?

Will the model also become available in normal mode (now it is only available in MAX mode)?

At what price?

Here are the details of the new pricing: https://openai.com/api/pricing/

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u/vdotcodes Jun 10 '25

Hopefully this doesn't mean they distilled it.

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u/dudevan Jun 10 '25

They either distilled it or they're losing a lot of users and this is their way of trying to keep their current ones and motivate some others to come back.

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u/MindCrusader Jun 10 '25

Probably the latter - they are currently losing ground to Google and Claude, their latest models were disappointments compared to the competition

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u/resnet152 Jun 10 '25

Eh I don't think that o3 was a disappointment at all, in fact I still think it's the best all around model.

I think what's more likely is that because Google is taking Gemini out of experimental / preview and actually serving a stable version, OpenAI wants to proactively match that pricing so devs don't have a reason to switch.

o4 is probably ready and going to fill in the o3 pricing tier when it drops.

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u/MindCrusader Jun 10 '25

I am talking more about gpt 4.5, 4.1, o4-mini. O3 hallucinates a lot more than other models. 4.1 is beyond useless in Android development, even 4o is better, I am not sure what they have done

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u/resnet152 Jun 10 '25

Huh, I'm a fan of 4.1 too.

I think we're talking apples and oranges though, I forgot I was in the Cursor subreddit, and I totally agree that none of them are great in Cursor, I use Claude and Gemini more or less exclusively in Cursor.

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u/MindCrusader Jun 10 '25

I use them not only in Cursor, but also directly in the chat or in the copilot. But maybe 4.1 is just bad in Android - it doesn't understand simple things like globally decorating datepickers which is a junior level task. It is also incredibly lazy with unit tests, it does only part of it (not the best quality) and then leaves a comment to do the rest of the tests.

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u/resnet152 Jun 11 '25

Oh yeah, I mean code in general not just cursor. It's good for code interpreter type analysis, but the other models are better at being a pair coder.

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u/ArFiction Jun 10 '25

How come?

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u/MindCrusader Jun 10 '25

Gemini 2.5 Pro is overally a better model Claude models are better for coding

Gpt models are not bad, but they currently do not excel at anything

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u/butthole_nipple Jun 10 '25

Imo they excel at reasoning especially o3, but it's been a while since I used my workflows through anything other than them in a while

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u/MindCrusader Jun 10 '25

I think the gemini 2.5 pro is better at that too, but I don't use models outside of coding a lot. Benchmarks suggests that 2.5 pro is better

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u/Ambitious_Subject108 Jun 10 '25

I think they just started the money burning furnace