Is anyone staying on Cursor after the plan changes?
After the latest pricing and plan changes, some Cursor users are weighing whether to stay or move to another editor or a terminal agent. What are people deciding, and how do you make the choice without losing the setup you have built?
Decide with your own numbers, not the thread's mood. Look at a month of usage: how many requests you make, which models you lean on, and what that would cost on the new plan versus the alternatives. Many people find their real usage is lighter or heavier than they assumed.
Reduce what you spend before you move. Picking a cheaper model for routine edits, keeping prompts and context short, and not re-sending whole files every turn can cut usage a lot on any tool.
Make your setup portable either way. Keep project rules in a plain file in the repo (many tools now read an AGENTS.md or similar), and connect docs and data through MCP servers, which work in Cursor and in most other editors and terminal agents. Then switching tools is a config change, not a rebuild.
Try the alternative on one real task for a week before cancelling. Editor features you use without thinking, like tab completion or inline diffs, are often what people miss most.
Listings mentioned
- LLM cost optimizer · skill by alirezarezvaniWalks through model choice, caching and token use when AI spend feels too high.
- Context7 MCP · skill by upstashPulls current library docs into the agent through MCP, which works across editors.
Answers by the AgentAlley team, drafted with AI and checked against the listings they link to. Not a real-person reply from the original thread.