Cursor pricing history
Short answer (checked 2026-10-20): Cursor Pro was $20/mo with 500 requests until June 2025, then switched to $20 of API-priced usage. Since October 12, 2026, new plans run from Plus at $8 to Ultra at $200, with one weekly usage pool shared with Grok.
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Every entry links to an official Cursor or SpaceXAI page. Dates are the post or effective date stated by the source. Anything we couldn't date from an official page is left out.
| Date | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 2026 | Annual prices for the new plans Annual billing: $80/yr Plus, $300/yr Premium, $1,000/yr Super, $2,000/yr Ultra (taxes excluded). The docs don't give a separate date for annual pricing; listed with the X Subscription launch. | cursor.com ↗ |
| Oct 12, 2026 | The X Subscription: Plus $8, Premium $30, Super $100, Ultra $200 Cursor became part of The X Subscription (Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor, X). Paid plans share one weekly pool for Cursor models (Grok 4.7/4.6/4.5, Composer 2.5) across Cursor and Grok. Premium, Super and Ultra get 4x, 15x and 50x Plus usage. Third-party models are no longer included; on Premium and above they bill at API list price from prepaid credit. Teams seats are $30, $100 or $200. Legacy plans (Pro, Pro+, Ultra, Start, Teams Standard/Premium) keep working, and the old Ultra plan closed to new sign-ups. | forum.cursor.com ↗ x.ai ↗ cursor.com ↗ |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Cursor Start for India (₹649/mo) New India-only plan at ₹649/month, tax inclusive, billed in INR with UPI or card, with Grok and Composer model access and cloud agents. | cursor.com ↗ |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Student discount closed to new sign-ups Cursor stopped new sign-ups for its legacy student discount. Students who already redeemed it keep their rate until the plan expires; it then renews at the regular rate ($20/mo on legacy Pro). | cursor.com ↗ |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Teams: more Standard usage and a Premium seat Standard seats get more included usage at $40/seat/mo ($32 annual). New Premium seat with 5x Standard usage at $120/seat/mo ($96 annual). Immediate for new customers; renewing customers from billing cycles starting July 1, 2026. | cursor.com ↗ |
| Aug 12, 2025 | Auto joins the meter; Teams to variable costs Announced: at the next renewal after September 15, 2025, Auto counts toward individual plans' included usage at token rates, and Teams agent requests move from fixed to variable request costs. | cursor.com ↗ |
| Jul 4, 2025 | Apology and refunds Cursor apologized for unclear communication and said it would refund unexpected usage charges from the previous 3 weeks. It said Pro covered about 225 Sonnet 4, 550 Gemini or 650 GPT-4.1 requests at median usage. | cursor.com ↗ |
| Jun 30, 2025 | Pricing post and page clarified Cursor updated the June 16 post and its pricing page to make the change clearer. | cursor.com ↗ |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Ultra ($200/mo) launched; Pro moves to compute limits New Ultra plan at $200/mo with 20x the usage of Pro. Pro moved from request limits to at least $20 of model inference at API prices per month, with unlimited Auto and no tool-call limits. Existing users could keep the 500-request method. | cursor.com ↗ |
| Before 2025-06-16 | Pro: 500 requests a month Cursor Pro ($20/mo) charged external models per request, with a limit of 500 requests per month; Sonnet models cost two requests. | cursor.com ↗ |
Current Cursor plans
| Plan | Price | Limits |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Limited agent and chat requests |
| Plus | $8 | Shared weekly usage pool (Cursor+Grok); only Grok models |
| Premium | $30 | 4x Plus usage; third-party models billed at API list price |
| Super | $100 | 15x Plus usage |
| Ultra | $200 | 50x Plus usage |
| Teams | $30+ per user/mo | 4-50x Plus usage by seat tier |
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FAQ
How much does Cursor cost now?
As of 2026-10-20, Cursor's current plans (sold as The X Subscription) are Free, Plus $8/mo, Premium $30/mo, Super $100/mo and Ultra $200/mo. Teams seats are $30, $100 or $200. Legacy plans like Pro ($20) keep working for existing subscribers.
When did Cursor change its pricing?
The biggest changes: June 16, 2025 (Pro moved from 500 requests to $20 of API-priced usage, Ultra launched), August 2025 (Auto began counting toward usage at renewals after Sept 15), June 1, 2026 (new Teams seats), and October 12, 2026 (The X Subscription with weekly pools).
Did Cursor refund people after the June 2025 change?
Yes. On July 4, 2025 Cursor apologized and said it would refund unexpected usage charges from the previous three weeks.
Is Cursor Pro still $20?
Pro is now a legacy plan. Existing subscribers keep it, and the student discount renews into it at $20/mo. New sign-ups see Plus ($8) and Premium ($30) instead.
When did Cursor's Pro+ ($60) plan launch?
We couldn't find an official dated announcement for Pro+, so it isn't on the timeline. Cursor's docs list it among legacy plans.
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