Why Cursor's flat-fee pricing could lead to its downfall

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Post by Juice10 » Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 9:09 PM UTC

Why Cursor's flat-fee pricing could lead to its downfall
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Re: Why Cursor's flat-fee pricing could lead to its downfall

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 9:11 PM UTC

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Re: Why Cursor's flat-fee pricing could lead to its downfall

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Post by techpineapple » Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 9:16 PM UTC

We're definitely in the golden age of AI plan pricing, and I suspect we'll see plans for consumers scale similarly to the way we've seen streaming. There's no way $20/month is profitable, but I don't know much I would actually pay for it as a consumer. $30 sure, $40 may be pushing it. Will my business have to pay like $200/head? Maybe more?

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Post by verdverm » Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 10:48 PM UTC

techpineapple wrote: post #3

We're definitely in the golden age of AI plan pricing, and I suspect we'll see plans for consumers scale similarly to the way we've seen streaming. There's no way $20/month is profitable, but I don't know much I would actually pay for it as a consumer. $30 sure, $40 may be pushing it. Will my business have to pay like $200/head? Maybe more?

I want usage based pricing for AI, not a bunch of monthly subscriptions like we have with streaming

Re: Why Cursor's flat-fee pricing could lead to its downfall

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Post by owendarko » Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 11:01 PM UTC

Proof that even developers fall for "marketing schemes".