I think most standard users are intelligent enough to know if they’re on a subscription plan, the dollar amounts shown are if they were paying at API rates. This change is ridiculous.
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
#72I 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 have tried multiple times to switch from Cursor to VSCode + command line tools or VSCode plugin for Claude, but it just doesn't work as well as Cursor itself.
Especially if you are doing "remote" development through SSH. If you are doing stuff where you still have to write some parts of the code manually or you have to fix few things here and there that the AI outputs, you still need a real editor.
Re: Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export
#73(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-dema…
Do you really think that users on a subscription plan aren’t intelligent enough to know that you are showing dollars at API rates if they weren’t on a subscription plan? This is a terrible change.
Re: Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export
#74(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-dema…
The circular cost indicator near the context usage indicator was also removed. It is so much easier to accidentally leave an expensive model enabled now and not realize it until you have blown through the included credits. And it is hard to imagine that that wasn’t the point of the change.
Re: Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export
#75Elon 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…
Some people don’t use AI and I don’t get it. My wife has never used AI and yesterday I saw her reading a book made out of paper.
I imagine she’s just weighed all the details and options in her mind and plans to french fry tokens from my plate instead of getting her own.
And I hate that. I mean, I love her. She’s definitely value-add. But those are my tokens, right? My brain doesn’t do books. I can’t sit on the beach and read. I must always be swimming somewhere meaningful. So I’ll be vibing the next great Canadian web app and she’ll just casually ask, “hey what do you want to do about dinner?” So now I’m asking Copilot to tell me what I want for dinner. And it’s just… c’mon lady get your own tokens.
Re: Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anything else I can read about smol? also, are you using a tool to collect those metrics? what is it?
smol is basically this 9 line python agent re-implemented in Go https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49006862 I'll have more about it in the next hours/days, you can follow me on twitter in the meantime ( https://x.com/__tosh )
So smol is your agent? Do you have a GitHub link?
Re: Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It's so unfortunate people don't realize it's cheaper to write their own well working agent instead of insisting with general purpose bloated ones like Claude.
200$/month is a lot of money on Luna/DS4 flash, like really a lot and the results are much better than clowning on bloated CC.
It's absurd how you have more and more organizations encoding their processes on LLMs and "engineers" (charlatan coders) don't even bother optimizing the tool they use most.
Re: Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export
#78I 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?
You can use Cursor CLI, it's a terminal agent, just like Claude Code and Codex. I use it sometimes, I haven't opened the actual Cursor IDE in ages.
The potential benefit of Cursor CLI (vs CC and Codex) is that you can easily between all major models (by Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, as well as Kimi K3 and GLM 5.2). I found it useful when reviewing work - e.g. I implement using Opus then review using Sol, etc. Models by different providers tend to have different perspective on things and they can find different issues with the code.
Re: Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export
#79Elon 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…
Some people don’t use AI and I don’t get it. My wife has never used AI and yesterday I saw her reading a book made out of paper. I imagine she’s just weighed all the details and options in her mind and plans to french fry tokens from my plate instead of getting her own. And I hate that. I mean, I love her. She’s definitely value-add. But those are my tokens, right? My brain doesn’t do books. I can’t sit on the beach…
It sounds like your wife might get left behind by you.
Re: Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
If they were smart, they'd rebrand Grok to Composer. Nobody wants to use the Nazi model.
please, you're dramatically overestimating who gives a shit about this.
“If there's a Nazi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with eleven Nazis.”
You’re telling me there are a lot of Nazis we’re going to have to deal with. No problem, we’ve done it before, we’ll do it again.