[HN Gopher] Cursor stealthily doubled the price of Claude-3.7-Th...
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       Cursor stealthily doubled the price of Claude-3.7-Thinking in a
       changelog
        
       Author : rvnx
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2025-03-15 21:13 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.cursor.com)
        
       | upbeat_general wrote:
       | Related: I've been pretty frustrated with cursor that you can't
       | call any APIs directly, and it all has to go through their
       | backend. Along with this, they have essentially refused to fix
       | bugs in their custom API key page for months, forcing you to use
       | their "1st party" tokens.
        
         | rvnx wrote:
         | You may be happy with RooCode if you want to use direct APIs if
         | you want (there are _tons_ of supported backend).
         | 
         | The minus of it, is that it is super expensive, unless you have
         | some tricks (you can reuse the LLMs of GitHub Copilot Pro like
         | Claude Anthropic for example, but there is a quota, you can
         | also use Gemini Flash 2.0 Experimental for free at 15 requests
         | per minute, etc.).
        
       | SkyPuncher wrote:
       | Cursor seems to have the ultimate "free" users waste the most
       | time problem.
       | 
       | Frankly, anyone who's actually serious about using Cursor has 0
       | issue with this change. Cursor is a ridiculously good deal. I use
       | it literally all day professionally an d it costs me $60/month
       | (buying extra credits).
       | 
       | I've had single days with RooCode where I've burned that much on
       | API calls directly to Claude.
       | 
       | I have none of the issues the main communities have with it.
        
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