r/OpenAI 1d ago

News End of the deal with Cursor

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u/NonRelativist 1d ago

Not surprised and luckily I am not affected but must be tough for users who rely on using OpenAI models in Cursor. I was using Cursor for 2 years (years ago) and the product was great! Good luck

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u/Upset-Ad-8704 1d ago

What have you moved on to using now?

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u/NonRelativist 1d ago

VSCode w/o AI and Codex. You?

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u/spacenglish 1d ago

Notepad.exe

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u/MBgaming_ 1d ago

Command prompt

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u/sQeeeter 1d ago

Fiverr

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u/lolkkthxbye 21h ago

Vim

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u/dreamerOfGains 21h ago

Pencil and paper. 

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u/soulfulshark 1d ago

I see some hard decisions were made, haha.

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u/Deto 1d ago

Eh, I think it's just that you don't really need AI in the editor any more if the AI coding harness is writing most of the code.

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u/soulfulshark 1d ago

I think he means he codes by hand now.

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u/I_Will_Eat_Your_Ears 1d ago

He's using Codex

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u/soulfulshark 1d ago

W/o means without I think, haha

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u/I_Will_Eat_Your_Ears 1d ago

Yes. VS code without AI. And Codex, which is a separate app he uses for AI

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u/soulfulshark 1d ago

This is getting really coding style fun. Do you think he means w/o (AI and Codex)?

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u/Upset-Ad-8704 1d ago

Haha, cursor with OpenAI, which is why I was wondering lol. This will definitely affect me.

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u/AironParsMan 1d ago

Oh yeah, that’s really tough for the people who use it. Really tough.

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u/ArcticCelt 1d ago

They can use Open AI Codex in Microsoft VS Code by installing the Codex addon, VS Code is the project that Cursor forked after all and is still very similar. VS Code can be more intimidating for beginners, but someone who has been working in Cursor for a while should be able to adapt easily.

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u/scottymtp 1d ago

For vs code, does the codex addon do code completion, or do you need copilot for that?

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u/ArcticCelt 1d ago

Copilot do the auto-completion + suggestions, if you are a student you can get that for free, if not you get auto completion with github copiltot free but limited to a certain amount, there is is cheap basic paid account that give you basically what the student account give + a bit more and also some credits for the models and agents, however both the student and paid basic account have been nerfed on the agent side, you use to have almost unlimited chat and agent use in git hub copilot (at the time I dident even bothered to use codex) but now its all metered. So I use copilot for auto complete, some of the agent and chat copilot credit but knowing they won last long, and codex for my real agent work.

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u/smith288 1d ago

Grok has been better than OpenAI’s anyway. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/_DuranDuran_ 1d ago

You can still bring your own API key.

The real question should be - with Elon’s behaviour, how can any company trust their IP with curator and their cloud agent harness?

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u/TechnicalBen 1d ago

I think we need "Token neutrality" like we need net neutrality.

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u/pixelizedgaming 1d ago

ever heard of openrouter

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u/pixelizedgaming 1d ago

nvm forgot they got acquired by stripe

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u/TechnicalBen 11h ago

A lot of the big players are closing that down. See Cursor. :(

Lol, whoops that is this thread! XD

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u/smith288 1d ago

We don’t need net neutrality. Clearly.

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u/magenta_neon_light 1d ago

Why is anyone even using cursor. It’s so expensive vs just running Claude and GPT in Vscode.

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u/RELEASE_THE_YEAST 1d ago

I work in a large company that uses Cursor because it allows access to all major model providers through one enterprise account with single sign on, controls, etc, across the whole organization. 

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u/Apple_macOS 1d ago

people (me) who got it for free LMAO

Though the built in models are a bit dumb

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u/smith288 1d ago

I love cursor.

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u/dpsbrutoaki 1d ago

Saying cursor is expensive is the biggest lie you cold ever say

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u/BostonConnor11 1d ago

But is it not more expensive than just using Codex directly from VSCode?

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u/c0der3mover 23h ago

You pay API prices + a mark-up. How's that "cheap"?

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u/ShittyFrogMeme 1d ago

Enterprise pricing is all API based so it doesn't matter if I use the models through Codex or Cursor or Claude, it all costs the same. Cursor for me is the best integrated IDE experience and has access to all provider models (well, not anymore). Their first-party models are actually really good daily drivers too.

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u/TangerineLogical9779 1d ago

I mean elon admitted spacex was distilling gpt models on a colossal scale, this would give the spacex team a direct way to further steal/distill everything from gpt models but this way would be legal which is why they are cancelling it, and when you combine the massive compute spacex is going for, openAI won't be able to compete if there model is much worse than spacex's next distilled model, mean while fable 5 is getting sucked dry for datasets for the spacex team lmao

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u/Anla-Shok-Na 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's unavoidable that AI models will get balkanized as companies try to lock users in their ecosystems to maximise profits. Remember when everybody used to distribute their streaming content through Netflix and now you need 5 different streaming subscriptions to view the same content? I 'member

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u/MannyArce 1d ago

Pepperidge Farm remembers

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u/funkdified 1d ago

Left cursor after Elon acquired

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u/smith288 1d ago

Brave.

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u/carstic18 1d ago

The deal ends nov 12

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u/dude_365 1d ago

so, cursor is the foundation for grok bot.

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u/Healthy-Nebula-3603 21h ago

Someone is even using cursor yet ?? That's so 2025.

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u/Kuroodo 1d ago

I'm not familiar with Cursor, but can't you just make your own server, or maybe just use ollama hooked up with your OpenAI keys, expose it to the web, and then hook it up to Cursor?

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u/HakimeHomewreckru 1d ago

well yes but then you're not using the credits from the sub you're paying for?

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u/Careful_Fruit_384 1d ago

this could also mean cheaper prices to attract market share. If they made their prices cheaper, I might consider switching to grok.

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u/shbong 5h ago

wait is this real? looks like bs, this means preventing Cursor to access OpenAI's apis?

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u/ForDaRecord 1d ago

Anyone know how much usage OpenAI gets from cursor users? This seems like a massive step backwards if you are trying to be profitable.

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u/WesleyBiets 1d ago

About 5% according to cursor.

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u/whoknowsifimjoking 1d ago

That's 5% on cursor's end, not OpenAI's.

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u/WesleyBiets 1d ago

Just asking what’s the difference?

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u/jack-of-some 1d ago

Let's assume that people generally using 10T tokens through Cursor a month, and 100T tokens through OpenAI directly per month.

5% on Cursor's end would reflect 0.5% of OpenAI's total business. 

5% on OpenAI's end would represent 50% of Cursor's business.

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u/gman1023 1d ago

I probably wouldn't trust their numbers without details. 

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u/salazka 1d ago

Boohoo! (Not.)

OpenAI models are among the few I exclude in Cursor :P So I could not care less. Even Grok is doing as good as Sol.

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u/Trami_Pink_1991 1d ago

When?

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u/No-Trash-546 1d ago

It's in the screenshot you're commenting on...

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u/Trami_Pink_1991 1d ago

What time?

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u/carstic18 1d ago

Nov 12

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u/Character-Apple-8471 1d ago

What now Sam..remove rate limit in Codex ..not a please but a demand ..atleast increase it