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Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

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Re: Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

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Post by azuanrb »

tosh wrote: post #57
azuanrb wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What tools are you using to run the comparison? Or are you just running the prompts and checking them with something like ccusage? I’m asking because I’ve been looking for agent harness comparison tools too. I’m interested in more than just the inputs and outputs—I also want the system prompts, traces, and tool calls. It’s useful to understand why Codex, for example, uses more tokens while Pi doesn’t. Fewer tokens ar…

I built an ad-hoc custom comparison framework to inspect system prompts, caching behaviour, tool call outputs, exact api requests and responses and so on I agree fewer tokens is not necessarily better but a bit counter-intuitively often the harness using fewer tokens is not only done faster but has better results (that said: of course check the results, look at the full traces, agree!)

Thanks! I ended up built my own too. Just thought there are other better options out there that I might've missed.

Re: Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

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Post by KronisLV »

yojo wrote: post #32
tosh wrote: post #22

I can only recommend to regularly measure how many tokens a harness+model combination uses for a certain task There are huge token efficiency/bloat differences between agents while working on the same tasks, using the same model, in the same environment Yesterday I ran 10 agentic tasks using GPT 5.6 Sol in an ubuntu 26.04 vm a couple of times with different harnesses and got vastly different token usage. +-----------…

Claude Code injects a ton of tools into the system prompt, including their “memory system” that’s like 10k+ tokens. Depending on your task shape, this can easily double your task cost (e.g. a low context-using job that takes many turns, like a monitoring loop). You should use --disallowed-tools to prune any tools not needed for the task. Note that this is also a perpetual game of whack-a-mole since they’re always add…

> Claude Code injects a ton of tools into the system prompt

It's so unfortunate they don't let you use the subscription with other harnesses anymore - since even if I used OpenCode they'd still get a bunch of useful data from the API calls, meanwhile I could stretch their tier limits way further.

Re: Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

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Post by murlax »

slashdave wrote: post #8

Cursor achieved fast adoption by making it simple to move from Visual Studio code. Double-edged sword. It is also simple to move back to VS code and agent extensions.

This is basically what I did. In 2023 I moved from VS Code to Cursor. And in 2025 when Opus 4.7 (or was it 4.6?) did that big leap in December, I switched to Claude Code and VSCode for any edits. I come from Sublime Text so those shortcuts are hardwired in me (which was also the defaults in VSCode). When Cursor hijacked literally every CMD key combo, I got fed up and switched back to VSCode. Maybe I should just go back to Sublime Text now lol, since I really just need a blazing fast code reader.

Re: Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

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Post by cruffle_duffle »

w29UiIm2Xz wrote: post #21
fillbookio wrote: post #6

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Not a single one of these tools tell me how much I just spent when I issue a prompt and it finishes inference.

I sometimes feel it isn’t malicious but that they don’t know the number either.

Re: Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

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Post by jonjohnsen »

(I work at Cursor)

You can still see what you’re billed on the Spending page. We did accidentally break dollar costs in the Usage CSV export yesterday while cleaning up an old feature flag. That was not intentional and the CSV export is fixed now.

That feature flag also showed a dollar usage graph to some self-serve users. The confusing part was included plan usage shown as $, which is not what you’re billed (on-demand usage is). Some people read it as actual spend, so we decided to remove that graph.

Re: Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

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Post by teaearlgraycold »

aroman wrote: post #5

I was an early and passionate adopter and paying customer of Cursor (since 2023!), but it’s probably been 6 months since I opened it. These days I “write” code with claude code and codex, and read/review it on GitHub. If I need to read it locally, I use a plain text editor. Can someone help me understand what value cursor offers in 2026?

I'm also confused about Cursor. I use Zed. It seems like whatever Cursor has is pure commodity and yet it's worth billions?

Re: Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

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Post by xvxvx »

Elon will be paying his staff in tokens in the future. Grocery stores will have on-demand pricing shown in tokens, and prices will change from the time you pick up the product and you pay at the checkout. It’s Ok, Elon said money won’t exist soon anyway…
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