User cancelled subscription due to confusion and lack of clear communication regarding the "slow pool" and usage limits after exhausting fast requests. They expected unlimited slow requests but encountered an error. The user explicitly states "the communication and information about the slow pool should have been clear from the start."
Ok final final update on the @cursor_ai subscription. I cancelled the subscription entirely despite getting the legacy plan where I had unlimited slow requests after 500 fast ones. But I didn't get the promised slow requests. Kept getting this error "Usage-based pricing is required" after finishing the 500 requests specifically for claude-4-sonnet. Initially thought maybe there was some issues with Cursor. So I asked the support team but no that is correct. You don't get models in the slow pool after the 500 are over. I was like "What? That doesn't make sense. I am not sure if this was ever mentioned in the legacy plans before? What is the slow pool? Or maybe I missed it?" Anyways then I realized something, no matter what happens I have to cancel the subscription after a year and clearly can't trust words. So time to unlearn Cursor and actually use the other options. I get it that AI is expensive but the communication and information about the slow pool should have been clear from the start. I wish best of luck to @cursor I hope they change that. They have definitely navigated away from their initial strategy now that the competition has reduced. I'll post the support emails below in case you want to read those conversations. TLDR: I cancelled the subscription, despite getting the legacy plan where I had unlimited slow requests after 500 fast ones because there was a rugpull in there too.