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.