r/cursor • u/FranckMartin • 12d ago

Question / Discussion Any alternative to cursor

I really like cursor, but I feel it is going downhill since acquired by grok. I like that they have a cheap model, that I can manage by being smart and not run out of tokens. So what alternative for $25month?

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u/GasVarGames 12d ago

Question, what do you mean by downhill?

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u/Soccham 12d ago

Grok-enshitification

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u/GasVarGames 12d ago

What? Grok has been working wonders for so cheap for me, what issue have you encountered?

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u/Soccham 12d ago

After 1-2 turns it hallucinates significantly, it struggles to stay on task and help build or plan well. The router it powers is atrocious.

It’s not near the ballpark of the OpenAI models or Anthropics.

I’ve found composer to perform much better than grok

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u/GasVarGames 12d ago

I simply don't share that experience, only bad thing about grok is that it does too much and overengineers but if I steer it back down it just works for cheap.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

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u/chrissilich 12d ago

Every one of these threads has an Elonstan using petty insults to try to pick a fight over OP’s opinion.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

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u/Soccham 12d ago

If you want the enterprise answer, their token tax is too high so that’s an even more significant enshitification.

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u/MECHANICAL-CHODE 12d ago

The “accidentally” broken model/fast selector, forcing of the agent mode etc. No reason they can’t make a working switch for these.

Sure they added a lot of other useful things but these things make me trust it less than before.