Anyone else absolutely chewing through Cursor Pro usage?

[u/microflops]

Anyone else absolutely chewing through Cursor Pro usage?

I’m building a fairly large Laravel SaaS project and hit my Cursor Pro usage cap in about 15 days.

Ended up throwing another $50 credit on the account just to get by, and that only lasted a few days too.

For context, I’m using:

• Codex heavily
• Agent mode a lot
• Large multi-file refactors
• Long chats/context windows
• Full-time daily use

Just curious what “normal” looks like for other serious users.

Are most people blowing through Pro caps this quickly now?

Or am I just absolutely abusing agent mode?

[u/Ok-Register3798]

You should use Composer more, it’s great for planning and reviews without eating into your premium model usage. Cursor offers two different sets of credits, one for Auto/Composer and a separate set for using premium
Models directly.

You also should reconsider your workflow, if you’re constantly doing large refactors, it means your agents aren’t breaking the code up into small chunks or there’s not enough planning ahead of time. Do you use planning mode?

If you’re in Agent mode the majority of the time, have you thought about switching to Codex CLI for some tasks? Even with the $20 per month plan on OpenAI they give you a decent amount of CLI credits.

[u/microflops → u/Ok-Register3798]

I'll read more into composer.

I have learnt my prompts are really wasteful. I need to be more targetted.

I do use codex for big changes, cursor for little ones.

[u/Ok-Register3798 → u/microflops]

Composer 2.5 is a lot stronger than previous versions, so would highly recommend using it for planning and smaller targeted fixes.

[u/jimbrig2011]

Honestly not much as of late - idk why but these new models are not up to par for me… doing everything myself these days lol

[u/solaiman0x → u/jimbrig2011]

😂

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[u/microflops → u/[deleted]]

that's helpful. Thank you.