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Why it mattersA Cursor Pro customer whose work is mostly in Claude or GPT inside Cursor should budget for Anthropic or OpenAI API bills on top of the subscription under the new plans, which the old plan absorbed into the $20.
Cursor Pro at $20 a month used to include $20 of third-party model use. The subscription that replaces it includes none.
TechCrunch reports on 13 October that SpaceX Super Intelligence, the renamed SpaceXAI, has consolidated its products into a five-tier plan called the X Subscription. SpaceX bought Cursor for a reported $60 billion in August, and the new bundle is the first plan to cover Cursor, Grok, Grok Bot and X Premium under one shared usage pool.
The tiers and what each one includes
TechCrunch, citing Matt Palmer in developer experience at SpaceXAI, writes that the free tier gives limited Grok and Cursor use. Plus at $8 a month adds X verification, creator tools and fewer ads, and raises the AI allowance. Premium at $30 adds Grok Bot, four times the Plus AI allowance, and is the first tier where third-party models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google are available at all. Super at $100 and Ultra at $200 raise the allowance to 15 and 50 times Plus respectively. Team plans now start at $30 per user per month, down from $40, and go to $100 and $200. SpaceXAI says Premium is a bundle that would have cost $90 a month to buy as SuperGrok, Cursor Pro and X Premium+ separately.
The Claude and GPT change
TechCrunch reports that under the old $20 Cursor Pro plan, the subscription included $20 of Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT or Google Gemini usage, priced at those vendors' API rates, with more allowance available on $60 Pro+ and $200 Ultra. Under the X Subscription, third-party model usage no longer comes with the subscription at any tier. The developer is billed at the standard API rates from the first request, through prepaid credits, including on the $100 and $200 plans. TechCrunch gives the worked example: a developer who used to pay $20 to Cursor Pro and consumed $20 of Claude is now paying $30 for the Premium tier plus $20 at API rates, so $50 a month for the same work.
TechCrunch quotes Palmer directly: "If most of your usage is on third-party models, the new plans might cost you more, so check your usage before switching." Palmer also says the new plans give at least twice as much coding usage with the company's own Grok models as the plans they replace.
The small-print changes
Two features that came with the old Cursor Pro at $20 now sit behind the Premium tier at $30: Cursor's cloud agents, and Origin, the company's GitHub alternative. TechCrunch says a developer switching from the old Pro to keep those features is paying $10 more a month. The weekly Grok allowance is shared across Cursor, Grok and X, which means heavy Grok use in the chat apps eats into coding usage in the editor.
What to do with this
TechCrunch's framing matches Palmer's: this is a per-user judgement call about where the usage sits. A Cursor user whose output is almost all Claude Code or GPT inside Cursor should take Palmer's advice literally and look at a current month's bill before switching. A developer who already prefers Grok models is better off on the new tiers. Palmer says the plans are opt-in, which is the one piece of good news for anyone who does not want the switch forced on them this month. Neither Cursor nor SpaceXSI has posted a changelog entry about the plan change at the time of writing, so TechCrunch's reporting is the record.
Source
SpaceXSI bundles X Premium, Grok, and Cursor into one subscription, Sarah Perez, TechCrunch.
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