Cursor Pricing and How to Choose

Cursor's Plus plan costs $8 a month before tax. This guide covers the new plan prices, the weekly usage pool, where extra costs come from, and how to pick a plan.

Cursor moved to a new pricing system, The X Subscription, on October 12, 2026. Grok and Cursor now share one usage pool, and the pool refreshes every week. If Grok models are enough for you, Plus is the place to start. If you also want Claude or GPT, you need Premium or higher. This guide covers plan prices, how the usage pool works, where extra costs come from, and how to choose.

Plan prices

These are the plans for new customers:

Prices are in US dollars and exclude tax. The official wording is “Prices shown do not include applicable taxes or fees (e.g. VAT).”

Prices can change within a few months, so check the official page before you subscribe (sources: https://cursor.com/pricing and https://cursor.com/help/account-and-billing/pricing, checked 2026-10-18).

The older plans, such as Pro ($20/mo) and Pro+ ($60/mo), are now legacy plans. New customers can’t buy them. Existing subscribers keep them until they switch or cancel. Switching is optional, but once you switch, you can’t go back (sources: https://cursor.com/help/account-and-billing/pricing and https://forum.cursor.com/t/introducing-the-x-subscription/174450, checked 2026-10-18).

Included usage and what happens when it runs out

Paid plans include a weekly usage pool for Cursor models. The models named on the official page are Grok 4.7, Grok 4.6, Grok 4.5, and Composer 2.5. The pool is shared across Agent, the CLI, Cloud Agents, Grok Bot, and the Grok apps. Higher tiers state their usage as a multiple of Plus, not as a token or request count.

The pool refreshes weekly, not monthly. Cursor says one heavy day doesn’t use up your whole month.

When you run out, you have two options. Buy a top-off and keep going, or wait for the pool to refresh. Top-offs are prepaid credit. Cursor model usage beyond your weekly pool is charged from that credit at per-model token rates, which are listed in a table in the official pricing docs. You can see your remaining usage in settings (sources: https://cursor.com/pricing and https://cursor.com/docs/account/pricing, checked 2026-10-18).

Where extra costs come from

Beyond the monthly price, costs come from three places:

• Third-party models: Claude, GPT, and other third-party models are not included in the monthly price. They are available on Premium and above, billed at the model’s API list price from the first request, out of prepaid credit. Free and Plus can’t use them
• Model weight: the docs say “Different models draw from the pool at different rates.” Some models drain the pool faster than others
• Teams and Enterprise surcharge: third-party model requests carry a Cursor Token Rate of $0.25 per million tokens on top of API pricing. Individual plans don’t pay it

You can set limits. A monthly additional usage limit caps paid extra usage each month. Auto Top-up refills your credit when the balance drops below a threshold you choose. We could not find the default value of the monthly limit on the official pages (not confirmed) (source: https://cursor.com/docs/account/pricing, checked 2026-10-18).

If you use the Grok API separately, it is billed at standard model rates. It doesn’t draw from your plan’s pool (source: https://cursor.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-18).

What Plus doesn’t include

The $8 Plus plan has limits. Grok models run at fixed settings (Fast off, medium effort). Auto, Cloud Agents, Automations, Bugbot, Origin, and third-party models are not available. Premium and above add all of them (source: https://cursor.com/help/account-and-billing/pricing, checked 2026-10-18).

Individuals vs. teams

Teams is priced per seat at $30, $100, or $200. Each matches Premium, Super, or Ultra in price and weekly usage. Usage on Teams is not pooled. Each member has their own allowance. Only Enterprise pools usage across the team. The prepaid credit balance and the additional usage cap, however, are one per team, managed by admins. Plus isn’t available for teams.

Teams adds centralized billing and administration, usage analytics, team-wide privacy settings, and SAML/OIDC SSO. Enterprise adds invoice billing, SCIM seat management, granular spend controls, audit logs, and priority support (sources: https://cursor.com/pricing and https://cursor.com/docs/account/pricing, checked 2026-10-18).

How to choose

Here is a rough guide by use case. Each point is limited to what the official pages support.

• Just trying it out: Free. It gives you the core features with limited usage
• An individual who only needs Grok models: Plus. Cloud Agents and Auto are not included
• You want Claude or GPT too: Premium or higher. Third-party models cost extra, so set up prepaid credit and a spending cap
• You run agents for long hours every day: Super or Ultra. Choose by the usage multiple. Super adds priority model access at peak times
• You’re on legacy Pro: switching can’t be undone. The third-party usage included in your legacy plan continues until you switch

To compare with Claude Code, read What Claude Code Really Costs. If you’re still choosing a tool, see Claude Code vs Cursor vs Codex in Practice.

Summary

• Since October 12, 2026, Cursor pricing is part of The X Subscription, shared with Grok
• Monthly prices are Plus $8, Premium $30, Super $100, and Ultra $200, before tax. Annual billing is available
• The usage pool refreshes weekly. When it runs out, buy a top-off or wait
• Claude and GPT require Premium or higher and are billed separately at API list price
• Teams gives each member their own allowance. Pooled usage needs Enterprise
• Switching from a legacy plan is optional and permanent

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