Cursor Reviews 95

The system is becoming increasingly inefficient and limited. It fails to read files, analyse existing code, and provide coherent responses. The internal browser is completely useless; in fact, it only leads to errors. It is impossible to perform a real analysis without having tons of code and files written without the slightest logic or evaluation. Interacting with the agent becomes frustrating, as it is impossible to give it the slightest indication. Instead of supporting development, it slows everything down and introduces inconsistencies and errors.
I also get the impression that the agent aims to do as little as possible, suggesting that you skip certain parts (to run complete tests, you have to ask at least five times) or avoid certain steps.
It is not worth the expense, honestly.

Cursor used to be good, now its lacking. I noticed that the models are getting dumber. It seems like they are trying to cut API costs by either giving less context, or secretly calling a cheaper model instead of the model you pay them for. And for this reason, I will no longer be using their services.

Unclear billing practices, they scam you into forgoing the 30 day trial, then once you do sign up, there is ZERO support. Emails to support go completely unanswered.

Our company has been using this service for quite some time, but the recent change in management UI for company accounts has been a complete disaster.

After the update, several of our developers were suddenly downgraded from the paid plan to the free plan, even though our organization is still actively paying for the service. To make matters worse, the admin dashboard no longer provides any way to manage users or make plan changes — it’s as if the control panel was simply removed.

We reached out to support over a week ago, and the experience has been extremely frustrating. Responses are slow, unhelpful, and repetitive, with no real progress or resolution. Essentially, we’re paying for a service we can’t even access properly, and support keeps promising to “escalate” the issue without any visible results.

This isn’t just a poor user experience — it’s unacceptable for a paid business service. Until this is resolved and the management tools are restored, I can’t recommend this company to anyone relying on it for professional use.

$200 Pro plan, exhausted in 5 days. $50+ additional tokens = $200 per week, to use AI Cloud Models that I already own?

DeepSeek, $10 a year, used only $5.00 worth in 12 months.

Perplexity Sonar models, $20, only used $5.00 in two months of daily usage.

Issues:
Cursor's auto switching models in mid-dev = Broken code, no memory.

Cursors broken chat panel scrolling bug, never fixed. Forces the user to repeatedly scroll to the bottom of the thread. Scrolling options do not work.

Broken Context tags: Perpetually removes Docs, Files, Rules from chat = More broken code amd bugs.

Cursor's auto switching from Agent mode to Chat mode = wasted tokens, increased context usage, flooded chat threads.

No chat save to Markdown feature = poor performance of chat context awareness.

Blocked from adding your own AI Cloud Model API keys: Gemini DeepSeek, Perplexity, Claude, etc = More proxy middleman reseller fees and security risks.

Total disregard of app settings to NOT USE CERTAIN AI MODELS. Disabling Claude, doesn't work. They force Claude on you and auto switch without consent or obeying rules. Because, well, they keep more money from the premium AI model tokens.

The age of middleman reseller proxies exploiting people is gonna die off soon. A wrapper, reselling a wrapper, reselling a wrapper, just to bill people more for AI Models they already own a cloud account with.

Just BYOK, i recommend using Zed IDE, or Theia IDE. App that ACTUALLY WORK. You'll save THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS AND LESS HEADACHES.

I subscribed to Cursor Pro on October 18, 2025, hoping to use it for converting a simple HTML page into a Next.js project. Unfortunately, the experience was extremely disappointing.

After using Cursor for just one day, my entire project folder disappeared when I closed the app — all files and code were lost. I tried creating a new project afterward, but the functionality didn’t work as expected, and I couldn’t generate or reuse even a single line of code.

When I requested a refund, I was charged $10.51 but was refunded only $9.49, which doesn’t even cover the full amount — not to mention the time and work I lost in the process.

It’s very frustrating to lose all your code because of an IDE, especially one marketed for AI-assisted productivity. I cannot recommend Cursor based on my experience. Their refund process and data reliability both need major improvement.

I'm surprised by the poor reviews. It works well in my experience, not a replacement for coding, but takes out much of the drudge.

I want to warn other developers before they lose money like I did.
Cursor AI’s billing system appears to have serious issues with token usage calculation.

Here’s what happened:
For identical usage of around 700K–785K tokens, I was charged ~$0.60 multiple times — which is normal — but suddenly $6–$7 for the exact same token amount in other sessions.

I’ve attached screenshots showing multiple examples of this inconsistency. In just one day, Cursor charged me over $210, which is completely impossible based on their published token rates.

When I contacted support, I received no proper explanation. If their pricing logic was accurate, every 785K-token session should cost roughly the same — not 10× more at random.

This isn’t a small billing glitch — it looks like a systematic overcharge problem that can silently drain your balance without reason.

I strongly recommend everyone to double-check your Cursor AI usage logs and invoices carefully. Something is clearly wrong with how token costs are calculated.

Cursor AI team, please fix your billing logic and issue refunds to affected users.

I renewed my Cursor Pro subscription after a failed payment, but I was very disappointed to see that my billing period didn’t restart from the day I paid. Instead, it was set from the previous billing date (September 11), so I ended up paying $20 just to get 2 days of access until October 11.

This feels really unfair. I expected my new subscription to start from the day I paid, not from a past date. I’ve contacted support to fix this issue, but I believe the billing system should not work like this in the first place.

I hope Cursor resolves this quickly, because I actually like the product — but this kind of billing practice is frustrating.

I am extremely disappointed with my experience using Cursor.

I upgraded twice, first to the Pro plan for $20 and then to the Pro Plus plan for $37.63, yet I could not use any of the models from day one. While everyone else seemed to be using Cursor without issues, I was completely locked out for my entire subscription period.

After contacting support, Kemp from Cursor admitted that the issue was on their side and caused by a service outage from their model provider. He apologized and assured me that a full refund would be processed immediately.

Weeks later, I have still not received my refund. Instead, another representative, Neil, denied the refund and claimed that I had used over $216 worth of value, which makes absolutely no sense considering I could not access the platform properly in the first place.

I have spent $57.63, received no value, and been given completely contradictory answers by the support team. The lack of consistency, accountability, and transparency has completely destroyed my trust in this service.

Cursor may have potential, but this kind of customer treatment is unacceptable. Until they fix their refund process and communication, I cannot recommend Cursor to anyone.

I subscribed to Cursor AI Pro, made the payment through their dashboard, and even received a receipt. Shockingly, I later got an email saying my payment was not processed. Till today, my account still shows only the trial version.

This is beyond frustrating. I have already shared proof of payment, but their team has not provided a single proper response or resolution. Their dashboard, email system, and IDE are completely out of sync — it feels like an unprofessional and careless setup.

Cursor AI clearly does not care about its customers. It looks like their only goal is to grab money once and then abandon the customer. This is the worst kind of service you can expect from a so-called “AI company.”

If you are thinking about paying for Cursor AI, don’t make the same mistake I did. They deliver zero value, zero support, and a horrible customer experience.

Final words: Cursor AI is unreliable, unprofessional, and not worth even a single dollar.

I’ve been a paying subscriber of Cursor AI for a while now, and honestly, it has gone from being somewhat useful to a complete waste of time. As a developer, I expected the tool to save me time, help me debug, and increase my productivity. Instead, it’s been doing the opposite.

The AI outputs are getting worse: inaccurate, repetitive, and often just plain stupid.

Instead of solving problems, it creates more confusion, forcing me to redo work I already finished.

Features that should make coding smoother end up slowing down my workflow.

It feels like I’m paying for a subscription that offers nothing but frustration.

At this point, Cursor AI isn’t helping me write better code, debug faster, or be more productive. It’s wasting my time, my money, and honestly draining my patience. For a tool that’s supposed to empower developers, it’s doing the exact opposite.

Until Cursor actually fixes its AI quality and proves it values its paying users, I can’t recommend it to any serious developer. Right now, it’s just not worth it.

The recent update of Curson has enabled me to switch beteen quite a deal of AI models which has really help in the development of apps in certain way. What has mostly worked for me is by giving curson all the access to make changes and also educating with data or error to fix them and that truly gets thing ghoing! Have to keep on pushing cursor to just get better and I further also ask it to study a repository and let me know what you understand about it and then I can add on to it to get feature added and errors fixed.

Incredible product and support.

Cursor works so well and has helped me going from "just designing" to actually shipping high quality user experiences. Their support is incredibly helpful and instantly helped me with a refund from a mistaken payment on my end.

Edit: People complaining have skill issues.

I don't know what is going on at Cursor. But everytime I need it after some weeks of not using it, the performance and quality has decreased incredibly. At this moment the outcome of ALL models is rubbish. It has become totally unusable. Complaining won't help you by the way. They never respond to any mail.

Cursor is wasting my time every time I use it. It CAN code, but most of the times when I ask it to do something, it uses me as its guinea pig testing a zillion things.

95% of the times its code leads to compilation errors or not the desired result.

It keeps apologizing and promising the REAL solution that will ABSOLUTELY work...

Of course it does not work. And finally when you say it must stop wasting your time, it says something like it knew from the beginning that what I wanted is technically not possible.

I have experienced cursor lying to me in more than 60% of the projects I used it for. It wasted my time a lot.

My verdict is that Cursor is absolutely not worth the $20 per month, not worth your frustration and not worth your time.

Even IF it was free, I will stop using it.

Cursor may be helpful with creating 5th grade batch files, but nothing more complicated than that. It is a structural lying and failing AI, that wastes your time.

I feel like Cursor is deliberately misleading. During the trial phase it worked almost perfectly, fast, accurate, and genuinely helpful. As soon as I upgraded to a paid plan the quality dropped dramatically. The answers became full of filler and errors, so it takes multiple attempts to get to something usable. By the time it gets it right, your usage is already gone. It feels like a trick: show the product at its best in trial, then downgrade the experience once you’ve paid.

On top of that, pricing feels manipulative. The £60 plan I was considering suddenly disappeared, leaving only a £200+ option. I can’t justify spending that just to see if the service will degrade again. The way limits and quality control are handled makes it feel like users are being pushed up the pricing tiers rather than receiving fair value.

I wouldn’t recommend paying for Cursor in its current state. It’s an unfair way to do business, and I can see why the Trustpilot rating is so low.

the new payment system for cursor is such a ripoff, i upgraded to pro plan todays ago an am already out of credit, i have been using cursor for sometime prior to this new payment system, and absolutely loved it, very efficient, now seems the developers are not catering to users need anymore but rather how much money they can get out of users, forcing loyal users like my self to upgrade to pro plus costing 60usd, what a dissapointment, a promising software with amazing capabilities going down the drain with over priced tokens. thumbs down for me guys, hope developers can read this, and start focusing on user needs instead of money.

I tried Cursor for a while and decided to cancel my subscription. After canceling, I started receiving emails about unsuccessful payment attempts, even though I no longer use the service.

It’s a bit confusing, as I thought the cancellation had gone through completely. I’ve reached out to support to clarify the situation and hope it will be resolved soon.

The product itself was promising, but I personally didn’t continue with it.