Anysphere’s chief executive, the company behind the popular AI encoding runner, apologized on Friday for a poor change in pricing in the Pro Pro plan. The changes have led to some users to complain that they had unexpectedly faced with additional expenses.
“We recognize that we did not handle this pricing well and we are sorry,” said Anysphere’s CEO Michael Truell in a Publication of a blog. “Our communication was not clear enough and came as a surprise to many of you.”
Truell refers to a Update June 16 In the cursor’s Pro drawing. Instead of receiving 500 fast answers to advanced AI models from Openai, Anthropic and Google, and then unlimited replies at a slower rate, the company announced that subscribers would now receive $ 20 worth per month, they are charged with API rates. The new design allows users to perform coding on a runner with the AI selection model until they hit the $ 20 threshold and then users must purchase additional credits to continue to use it.
However, professional users took the social media to file their complaints in the weeks that followed the announcement.
Many users stated that they ran out of requests on the cursor rather quickly under the new plan, in some cases After a few prompts when using Anthropic’s new Claude modelswhich are particularly popular for coding. Other users claimed to be Unexpectedly charged additional expensesThey did not fully understand that they would additionally be charged if they ran above the $ 20 use threshold and had no expenditure limit. In the new design, only the “automatic operation” of the cursor, which launches capacity -based AI models, offers unlimited use for Pro users.
Anysphere says she plans to return users who were unexpectedly charged and aims to be clearer about the proceedings of the forward prices. The company refused TechCrunch’s request for comments beyond the blog position.
Truell notes on the blog that Anysphere has changed the cursor’s pricing because “new models can spend more brands per request for a larger horizon”-which means that some of the latest AI models have become more expensive, spending a lot of time and computational resources to complete complex tasks. The runner ate these expenses under his old pro design, but now, he passes them on to users.
While many AI models have been reduced to price, the efficiency is still expensive – in some cases, more expensive than ever. Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 is $ 15 per million input brands (about 750,000 words, more than the entire “Lord of the Rings” series) and $ 75 per million production brands. This is even more expensive than the start of Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro in April, which was the most expensive AI model ever.
In recent months, Openai and Anthropic have It also started to charge business customers for “priority” access to AI models – An additional premium over the AI models that already cost that guarantees reliable high -speed performance.
These expenses may filter their way to AI encoding tools, which seem to be more expensive throughout the industry. Users of another popular AI, Replit tool have also been removed in recent weeks from Invoice changes that made the completion of large tasks with AI more expensive.
The runner has become one of the most successful AI products on the market, reaching over $ 500 million in ARR largely through subscriptions in the Pro plan. However, the runner is now facing intense competition from AI providers, while at the same time calculating how to financially serve the most expensive AI models.
Anthropic that recently launched the AI Claude Code encoding tool was a business blow, Reportedly reinforcing the company ARR in $ 4 billionAnd you may receive some users from the cursor in the process. Last week, the runner returned the favor by hiring two human employees who led to the development of Claude Code products.
But if the cursor intends to maintain its market position, he cannot stop working with the latest model providers-at least, not up to his models cultivated at home are more reasonably competitive.
Thus, Anysphere has recently hit a multi -year deal with Openai, Anthropic, Google and Xai to offer a $ 200 -high Ultra design with very high rates. Anthropogenic co -founder Jared Kaplan also told Techcrunch in June that he plans to work with the runner for a long time.
However, it certainly feels like the pressure between the runner’s and the AI model.
