when people use Cursor on auto, costs are under control, but there's always a dozen or so whale users who'll switch models manually and blow through the budget like it's not there
bazzargh on Hacker News
average around 3.9 cents per request
In the thread “SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B”, replying to this comment
Helped: Leaving Cursor on auto mode kept costs under control.
Got in the way: Whale users manually switching models blew through the budget.
… Meanwhile, if you use Claude-the-app, there is _no_ cheap model and the default switched to Opus in April, resulting in increased costs across the board. We have both Claude and Cursor here, as well as agents running GPT, things in AWS Bedrock, etc and its my team handle the bills...when people use Cursor on auto, costs are under control, but there's always a dozen or so whale users who'll switch models manually and blow through the budget like it's not there. Another thing: "better cost controls". …