What people previously said about Cursor

Older than the 25 on Cursor’s page
“Anyone using third party providers with cursor? I'm not a big fan of vendor-lock-in.”
Firm-Club-8334 · reddit ·
“I keep Cursor as a read-only reviewer next to Codex so the two never see each other's output. Different model families have different blind spots, and I only concede a finding after Claude checks it against the repo.”
Zain · reddit ·
“Usage limit is a major advantage and as the models get better and cheaper they can ahead of the race because you have more chances of Building something to conclusion in one sitting than you would do in claude or codex.”
azmy145 · reddit ·
“i tried claude and i am surprised how good it is, comapred to cursor, but cursor grok 4.6 limits feels like i am cheating in life, i can't event spend them and the model is rock solid”
kodka · reddit ·
“From my expirence cursor has been the worst,compared to claude code and codex,as a pro plus user i genuinely don't know why people are still choosing cursor,is it because of the usage limit?”
GrandContent3422 · reddit ·
“Cursor Cloud Agents are pretty great, as is Grok Bot which comes with the sub”
thefourthchime · hn ·
“Use Parsec to stream the Cursor chat window directly to your Android device with low latency. It handles text input and scrolling better than generic remote desktop apps for this specific use case”
copper_amber_focus · reddit ·
“Cursors in-house models are awesome, i hardly even touch my non-auto mode premium model allowance a lot of months.”
Warp_d · reddit ·
“Hey, I'm trying to connect to my Cursor chat AI agents window screen using my Android device. I'm constantly having to go to my MacBook to work on it, and I wanted to see if there's a way I can do it remotely?”
NecessaryCar13 · reddit ·
“Cursor Auto shows 1% usage for me even after long hours. Impressive!”
Friendly-Confusion41 · reddit ·
“I like Cursor because they have the UX figured out better than any of their competitors. Everything (agent mode, in IDE sidebar, cloud agents) is integrated and going between them is smooth and easy. There's no single big killer feature Cursor has, but they get so many smaller things right that it feels a lot more pleasant than the alternatives.”
Blazr5402 · reddit ·
“I just switched back to VS Code from Cursor a week ago. Things seem great and VS Code has caught up.”
Sammi · hn ·
“What are Cursor users using? Is it all Anthropic and Grok/Composer?”
smehmood · x ·
“I don’t know man I don’t use cursor anymore, but as far as I know when using codex subscription is subsidized, while cursor directly use api, meaning if using sol which is superior model for me you would spend much more on cursor then on codex subscription.”
SnooDucks7717 · reddit ·
“I can confirm with Cursor I burn through usage if I specifically select Claude models. I normally leave it set to auto and it uses composer 2.5 a lot and does a pretty good job for what I need it for.”
heydockside · reddit ·
“I prefer Claude Code. If you're using anthropic models, you typically get better performance by using the Anthropic Harness (Claude Code) vs Cursor.”
shipdaily · reddit ·
“Cursor also gave me a $100 credit for Grok after 81% of my usage was on TP models. I don't think Grok 4.6 is quite at the level of Opus 5, but it's close and so much faster (and less chatty).”
mgcross · hn ·
“Quotas are very limited, for $20 plan you will only get $20 worth of tokens from third party models like claude and openai. As I mentioned before you do get more with composer and grok but they are not as geberous as the claude plans.”
pigletmonster · reddit ·
“Now that Cursor is an AI lab, they are supposed to compete on their own models. It is completely normal for labs not to have their own models inside Cursor.”
mehulmpt · x ·
“But sure vs code is fine cursor is a fork off of vs code so is antigravity.”
RedParaglider · reddit ·
“I have a $20 Cursor sub still personally and would say that the usage for Grok models is much higher than what $20 gets you with Anthropic.”
Jcampuzano2 · hn ·
“Good, if I can stop getting ads for Cursor and I'll be happy.”
Vicentor2000 · reddit ·
“You have many tiers and all of them have generous usage.Grok is a workhorse, not the smartest yet, but produces good code and follows the plan.”
maipen · hn ·
“You’d use it because until recently Cursor had the best setup for cloud agents and visual verification and a bunch of other features outside of the harness.”
lawrjone · hn ·
“Then I read that, and also review relevant pieces of code in Zed.I tried using Cursor, many of my colleagues use it, but stopped using it due to clunkiness. And of late, even in there, many of my colleagues use agentic coding.”
aws_ls · hn ·
“When the code is good enough I throw it into a commit and push a PR out for other humans to review.Clicking around in a UI would just waste time and if the change is too large to review in a terminal window the change is too large for another human to review.”
jurgenburgen · hn ·
“did you know that you can run cursor cloud agents on your own machines? for example you can setup a mac mini (that you no longer need thanks to Grok @Bot) as a worker, meaning you can verify your iOS apps in a simulator”
poteto · x ·
“I just hate how somehow, years after they bought Supermaven, there still isn't anyone offering Code Completion at the same level of quality as Cursor did well over a year ago.”
Genneth_Kriffin · reddit ·
“cursor has its own plugin marketplace with their custom plugins which is nice, but many open source plugins don’t support cursor which isn’t nice.”
Silent_Blacksmith893 · reddit ·
“Cursor no longer indexes your codebase.”
robertjpayne · hn ·
“I recently cancelled Cursor.The features you mention are in Antigravity IDE v1, which I am trying as I still have a Gemini subscription.No idea how long it will be around for, as Google Antigravity2 (more like Claude Code) is clearly the favoured way forward, plus the new Antigravity for VSCode Extension*, which I didn’t like as much when I tried it.”
hn_throw2025 · hn ·
“Cursor is a really good harness, and ability to switch between all major models is a huge advantage.”
Strus · reddit ·
“But cursor has just a better UX for AI integration even though it’s slow and guzzle up RAM.”
jackjeff · hn ·
“I found it a great tool - I actually liked Composer 2.5; but now being bought by SpaceX has for a while left a bad taste - and they keep pushing Grok and now GrokBot.I took the 50% discount instead of cancelling - but with this I'll likely not renew.So sad to watch them go from great to mediocre in such a short time.”
tanepiper · hn ·
“I used mostly OpenAI for the last like 6 months in cursor. I got tired of how slow Claude models are and switched. I’m surprised usage is so low.”
therealdrag0 · hn ·
“i mean who use openai model in cursor anyway?”
ikhito17 · reddit ·
“But since two month or so I much prefer Codex and Cursor with the agent view.However, what I see cooking at Cursor is way more promising than the others. Things like full system understanding, their own forge, multi-repo support. I'd put them as way more visionary in the Gartner magic Quadrant ;)”
jtwaleson · hn ·
“I like Codex though so I don’t mind the extra”
toluwalase · reddit ·
“Usage is more generous with Cursor, but.. the models are worse too.”
rabandi · reddit ·
“For certain tasks I use Claude, which tends to be more expensive but sometimes saves me time.Using both OpenAI and Anthropic models, Cursor is cheaper than having two separate subscriptions, and their free tier of Composer is good enough. I will now have to reconsider my options.”
rippeltippel · hn ·
“Everytime ive tried to use, its super buggy and has memory leaks that make my very quite PC sound like a jet engine.”
dakolli · hn ·
“You can still use codex with your subscription as extension in cursor.”
Lopsided-Bridge-9810 · reddit ·
“In the case of API, Cursor is still the harness in between.”
MarionberryHumble705 · reddit ·
“Cursor is a vscode fork designed to get between you and the compute you're paying for. It serves little purpose.”
CloisteredOyster · reddit ·
“cursor value just went off a cliff”
the_ai_wizard · reddit ·
“You can still do agent mode shit, and as far as I know almost everything else, from within the cursor IDE. Claude code probably has a few special features, but I haven't needed them. Multiple sessions=multiple tabs.”
WHALE_PHYSICIST · reddit ·
“cursor is just shit at this point anyways”
Realistic-Stress5030 · reddit ·
“Grok is a pretty amazing model for the speed and price on Cursor.”
hargup · hn ·
“Cursor is like one of the least economical ways to use Claude and OpenAI, virtually nobody does it. You use Cursor for their autocomplete/composer + grok.”
ralusek · hn ·
“Api key -> that’s direct to openai, cursor -> they do the middle man.”
thestillwind · reddit ·