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Cursor

Cursor has repriced three times in two years, which is why the advice online contradicts itself. These guides describe the model as it is today, and say when each fact was checked.

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One API key and one base URL puts Claude, GPT, Grok, Gemini, and the free lane into Cursor’s model picker, billed to your Continuum plan.

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Cursor usage: limits, rate limits, costs, and how to track them

The two pools, the dashboard that matters, what each action consumes, why old request counts are wrong, and how to track Cursor in a multi-agent stack.

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Cursor background agents: what they are and when to use them

The feature was renamed to Cloud Agents. Here is how it works, what it costs, where it breaks, and the cases where running agents locally still wins.

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Cursor pricing in 2026: plans, credits, and what runs out Five tiers, two separate usage pools, and one setting that decides whether a plan lasts a month or a week. 9 min What Cursor actually is, and who it is for A VS Code fork with the AI in the editing loop. What each surface does, what the fork costs you, and where it genuinely wins. 9 min Cursor for students: what happened to the free year The free year is closed to new sign-ups. What existing students keep, the two routes still open, and what to use instead. 6 min The Cursor free plan: what Hobby actually gets you What Hobby covers, why Cursor will not publish a number, and the three signals that mean you should pay. 6 min Cursor prices in 2026: what you actually pay Every tier with its yearly rate, the arithmetic on on-demand overage, and what the same money buys elsewhere. 8 min Cursor agent mode: what it does and how to steer it How to scope it, how to review it, how to run several at once, and where a terminal agent still does the job better. 8 min Cursor rules: project conventions the agent follows The MDC format, the four ways a rule can fire, the precedence order, and how to keep rules from bloating context. 8 min The Cursor CLI: agent mode outside the editor The install line, the command surface, headless mode for CI, the sandbox, and what it gives up against the editor. 9 min Cursor status: is Cursor down, or is it you The official page, the six components, the upstream pages nobody checks, and the fixes for when it is green and still broken. 9 min Download and install Cursor on macOS, Windows, and Linux Which build to pick per platform, the Linux repositories worth using instead of the AppImage, and the CLI. 5 min Cursor usage: limits, rate limits, costs, and how to track them The two pools, the dashboard that matters, what each action consumes, why old request counts are wrong, and how to track Cursor in a multi-agent stack. 14 min Use Continuum’s hosted inference in Cursor One API key and one base URL puts Claude, GPT, Grok, Gemini, and the free lane into Cursor’s model picker, billed to your Continuum plan. 9 min Cursor background agents: what they are and when to use them The feature was renamed to Cloud Agents. Here is how it works, what it costs, where it breaks, and the cases where running agents locally still wins. 14 min Cursor usage limits: Hobby, Pro, and on-demand, which meter actually stopped you Cursor has several limits with different meters. Here is what each controls, when it resets, and the correct response at the ceiling. 13 min Cursor pricing changes: the complete timeline and what changed Why old Cursor prices contradict each other, what every major change meant in practice, and how to read the next announcement. 13 min
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