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Cursor usage limits after the October 2026 pricing change
On October 12, 2026, Cursor replaced its plans. New plans meter one weekly pool of usage; the old ones keep two monthly pools until you switch. Which kind you’re on decides when your usage resets and what happens after it runs out.
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Each current plan includes a multiple of the Plus pool, refilled every week:
| [plan] | [price] | [included each week] |
|---|---|---|
Free | $0 | A small allowance, Cursor models only. |
Plus | $8 a month | The base pool, Cursor models only. |
Premium | $30 a month | 4× the Plus pool. |
Super | $100 a month | 15× the Plus pool. |
Ultra | $200 a month | 50× the Plus pool. |
Teams | $30, $100 or $200 a seat | Each seat matches its tier. |
Annual billing costs ten months’ worth. Enterprise plans pool usage across the organization at a custom price.
The pool pays for Cursor’s own models, wherever you use them: the editor, the CLI and cloud agents all draw from it. Auto mode, on Premium and above, picks among those models on individual plans, so it bills against the pool too. Plus has neither Auto nor cloud agents.
Third-party models are outside the pool. Pick a model from another lab on Premium or above and it’s billed at that lab’s API price from prepaid credit, starting with the first request. Plus can’t use them at all.
- Wait for the weekly reset. The pool refills every week.
- Use prepaid credit. Top up by hand or turn on auto top-up, and set a monthly limit on extra spend. Credit expires a year after you buy it.
- Upgrade. Each tier up multiplies the pool.
If you were on Pro, Pro+, Ultra or Hobby before the change, your plan keeps working as it did. It includes two pools, one for Cursor’s models and one for other models, and both reset with your billing cycle each month. Nothing carries over.
Past the pools, on-demand usage keeps you going at the same rates, billed at the end of the month. On individual plans you turn it on yourself and can set a spend limit; on Teams it’s on by default.
The editor’s settings show the pool and when it resets. The usage dashboard on the web lists every request with its cost, and billing settings hold the top-ups and spend limits. On a legacy plan, the spending page in the Cursor dashboard shows both monthly pools.
Burnstate reads Cursor’s included usage with the Cursor app’s login, or a sign-in in your browser, and shows it as a bar with a white tick for how much of the cycle has passed. Cursor’s own numbers are used as they are, cost included. See Connect providers and Limits and pace.
Plans and limits change often. These are the pages this guide was checked against.
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See every limit against the clock, in your menu bar.
Burnstate reads your Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Vercel limits, marks how much of each window has passed, and tells you when you’d run out at your current pace.