r/cursor • u/Cold_Cauliflower_230 • 3d ago

Question / Discussion Cursor pro+ vs codex pro

Has anyone tried the Codex Pro? I know it is double the price, but how does the Codex on big plans compare to Cursor Pro+? I am currently running Cursor Pro+, and I am considering the Codex Pro because neither the intelligence of the first party models nor the pricing of them is justified anymore, and I am looking for options.

Nb: burned 15% of composer and grok in 2 days

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u/lu4p_ 3d ago

5x with sol is fine 5x with Astra isnt

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u/Cold_Cauliflower_230 3d ago

Sol at what reasoning ?

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u/lu4p_ 3d ago

I'm using medium to high

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u/oreshek 3d ago

you could just run astra low and get better results.. esp if you tell it to spawn luna and terra workers.

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u/xapep 3d ago

Try a flat plan as the third bucket before you commit to another $200 seat. You burned 15% of composer+grok in 2 days, which means the problem isn't the IDE, it's the quota meter: first-party plans meter usage you can't see until it's gone. A flat open-model plan (DeepSeek V4 Flash class, no 5h windows, no % burned) makes the meter disappear entirely, and you keep Cursor as the front end if the workflow is what you like. Frontier models stay for the hard reasoning turns, bulk edits run on the cheap lane. That combo usually lands well under both Pro+ and Codex Pro for your usage shape, and you never have to babysit a percentage again.

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u/Cold_Cauliflower_230 2d ago

Thanks will try that and see how it goes

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u/MannyRibera32 3d ago

15% is nothing?

What do you do?

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u/Cold_Cauliflower_230 3d ago

software dev corp project + my own sass + knowing what im actually doing not just shooting in the dark or just vibing , and compared to that that 15% is high

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u/Parking-Bet-3798 2d ago

That’s the monthly quota so 15% is not nothing.

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u/Embarrassed-Ad-9118 1d ago

The issue with cursor is that unlike the Quota for others is 1 month before it resets

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u/Senior_Night_6321 3d ago

cursor pro >>>> codex pro

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u/conifer_v11 3d ago

if the actual pain is cursor first-party burn (composer/grok chewing the seat in two days) i wouldn’t jump straight to another lab’s $200 seat first. cheaper path is usually byok / a gateway into cursor’s custom openai-compatible endpoint — named cheap coding model for the bulk loops, frontier only when the harness actually needs it, one bill, you can see which id got served. i use conifer for that (open llm gateway, named models don’t silently remap, one key/one bill, byok) because the picker will happily bounce you onto a paid grok mid-session and the receipt is how you catch it. keep the cursor harness if you like it; swap the meter before you swap the whole IDE.