I don't understand where $2000 comes from.

Relatively heavy cursor usage in my experience is around 100USD/month. You can set a limit to on demand billing.

I work at a company with thousands of engineers and have people hitting $200 limits in just a few days. I think the shortest was around 1.5 work days.

	▲	redox99 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I'm sure out of thousands you can have outliers, either people doing very large refactors or being kind of wasteful. Something like 90th percentile usage is what I'd call relatively heavy.

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hbrundage 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think your definition of heavy is different than lots of other folks I know -- I'm at $1500 / mo and am actively holding back.

	▲	hetspookjee 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I had the same and switched to Claude code max and have been continuing the way of working on Opus. Now with the lower credit burn of Opus 4.5 i haven’t had a rate limit since. Imo the Claude Code token proposition and the Claude ecosystem far outweigh the benefits of cursor. This stuff is far too effective to hold back on

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bloppe 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Even 100/mo is a lot when you can get unlimited Sonnet for 20/mo.

	▲	Ragnarockooo a day ago \| parent [-]
		Even 20/mo is a lot when you can run local open source models for the cost of electricity.