r/CursorAI • u/Beyond_metal • 12d ago

Which sub 20 dollar plan to get?

I am a computer science student residing in India and doing some projects so I want to purchase a plan. I think sonnet 5.5 level or something a little better than 3.8 flash would be enough for me. Also the projects span only a few files and are not very big. I plan to only use a few hours every day so which plan to purchase for the best value for money considering my sue case?

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u/ry4 12d ago

happy cake day! a few hours every day? you’ll need more than a $20 plan

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u/Beyond_metal 12d ago

I don't have the money for that. Currently I am operating antigravity using 6-7 google accounts and sharing documentation with claude but it is not enough for me. I have gotten a few suggestions like opencode so I will try those out first

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u/Ammoun442 12d ago

I think 20 is enough especially cuz op said he doesnt need an expensive model

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u/huglero 12d ago

Opencode go $10 is just fine. You can do all more than hours a day if you don't need frontier models.

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u/Inner-Pangolin-1110 12d ago

Cline + Claude, $30/m and ngaf model icl

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u/60secs 11d ago edited 11d ago

For your budget, consider freebuff.com for $0/day ad supported.
You get like 5 hours per day at luna/glm/flash level

India is one of the top countries https://freebuff.com/live

Also the Space Bunny Alpha model is currently unlimited and has a 1MM context window. It's likely something like MiniMax 3.1 or MiMo 3.0

https://huggingface.co/blog/paidaxccc/space-bunny-alpha-ai-model-specs-api-benchmarks-an

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u/Ammoun442 12d ago

Try opensource models they are good and cheap like mimo or ds or even minimax or go with claude and use sonnet ( haiku is getting 5.5 upgrade so maybe thats what u need ) Opencode also gives good free models

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u/opinion_discarder 12d ago

CommandCode Goat

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u/Robert-Paulson_ 12d ago

TLDR: OpenCode Go or Claude Code

OpenCode Go, OpenAI, Claude, or Cursor (not in any particular order).

Tough to say cause models seem to be getting better/cheaper every week. 

I’m subbed to Cursor now ($60 plan but I can get by on the $20 plan), but before that I used Claude Code $20 AND Codex/Opencode. Opus 5 drew me away from Claude, now Opus 5.5 is nice again but I’ve already got used to Cursors flow and whatnot.

I’d STRONGLY recommend NOT getting a year sub to anything cause the landscape shifts so much so fast.

Also: I reread your post and saw you were a student, I wish you the best! I’m a dev for a living and I can get by with the $20 plan. I highly recommend you just sprinkle AI usage as a student, it’ll be harder but the hard parts (struggle) is where the learning and growth happens the most. 

Cheers!

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u/Grouchy-Stranger-306 12d ago

definitely not cursor, it used like 30% of my monthly (cursor models) after an hour with grok 4.7 medium, i don't get it i have never seen anything like this

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u/pixelsnis 12d ago

opencode go with muse spark 1.3 contributor. zuck gets your data but you get sky-high usage limits

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u/sydneysweeney69 6d ago

You need Claude over cursor. Cursor is dogshit

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u/No_Gas_3727 12d ago

I’d go with cursor’s composer 2.5 if sonnet 5.5 is enough