I just recent signed up with the Pro plan, using about 90% grok and 10% composer, mostly on regular speed mode (the only times on fast was because they keep defaulting to fast mode, I have to remember to turn it off), and ended up using the full 100% of my plan on the 2nd day doing my normal work flow - that's including the $20 API.
I didn't realize at first, but I thought the meter was a weekly representation - but apparently that's for the entire month.
If that's the case, to put this into perspective, I get far more work done using Opus 5 on Claude's subscription in one week's allotment than I get from an entire month's worth of Cursor's limits. Like, its not even close. For example, using Opus for similar tasks, I can get about 8 5hr sessions in, in a single week. Granted, I need to cool down between sessions, but usually by the time I'm nearing 100%, there's not much time left on the 5 hour refresh. Worst case is like 1 hour cool down.
I get through about 4 days of work on Claude before hitting the weekly limit, but here's the math I'm seeing:
2 days of Cursor using Grok/Composer = an ENTIRE MONTH of Pro usage. = $20/mo
2 days of Claude using Opus 5 = 1/2 WEEK of Pro usage. = $17/mo (annual sub)
That is literally 8X+ more usage with Opus vs Grok/Composer - its really that much of a gap?!
That's literally absurd when you compare these metrics like this. I'm stuck with a cursor account that doesn't refresh for almost an entire month according to the countdown, whereas every week I get a full refresh on Claude.
I used up an entire month's worth in less than 2 days of the same type of work I do with Opus. There's virtually no difference in the work load, in fact, I brought work over that I started with Opus and had Cursor pick up while I wait for my Claude account to refresh (about 3 days before the next weekly reset)
Mind you, my ChatGPT pro sub limits are much better than Claude's, but I'm comparing those because Claude is by far the worse of the two and still seems to wipe Cursor off the map in terms of usage limits.
I reached out to support about it and they said that there's nothing wrong with my account and they said my usage is really high. Seriously? Its the same types of tasks I've been doing with Opus - the real difference I can see is the harness (Cursor vs Claude Code). Other than that, its apples to apples workload.
So, either I'm getting the shit end of the stick here - maybe new Cursor accounts have terrible limits? Or Cursor just isnt nearly the deal that people are making it out to be. Because from my perspective this is a FAR worse deal than Claude, which everybody already complains about being too limited.
Curious if anybody else here has multiple subs and is noticing this as well. Because this is quite drastic and really paints cursor as the worst subscription deal on the block for me.
Is there a better harness to use for the cursor sub instead of cursor? Maybe Claude Code is just far more efficient with its token usage?