Cursor's New Plans Explained (2026): X Subscription, Plus $8 vs Premium $30

On October 12, 2026, Cursor folded its plans into The X Subscription, one plan that also covers Grok, Grok Bot and X Premium. As of October 22, 2026, new customers choose Free, Plus ($8/month), Premium ($30), Super ($100) or Ultra ($200), while Cursor Pro at $20/month is a legacy plan that only existing subscribers keep. The change hits hardest if you use Claude or GPT in Cursor: new plans don’t include them.

What is Cursor’s X Subscription?

The X Subscription is a single plan that bundles Cursor with Grok, Grok Bot and X Premium, with one weekly usage pool shared between Cursor and Grok. Cursor announced it in a staff post on its forum on October 12, 2026.

The bundle includes:

• Grok: chat, voice, and image and video generation.
• Grok Bot: AI teammates that carry out tasks.
• Cursor: local and cloud coding agents.
• X: a checkmark, creator tools and fewer ads.

The shared pool covers Grok models wherever you use them: the Grok apps, the Grok tab on X or Cursor. It refreshes weekly instead of monthly. Cursor says each X Subscription plan includes at least twice as much coding usage with Grok models as the comparable old Cursor plan. Cursor’s own models are Grok 4.7, Grok 4.6, Grok 4.5 and Composer 2.5, and staff confirmed Composer stays on every plan. Cursor’s pricing page says subscriptions are sold only through X Subscription Corp.

How much does Cursor cost now?

As of October 22, 2026, Cursor’s pricing page lists Free at $0, Plus at $8/month, Premium at $30, Super at $100, Ultra at $200 and Teams from $30 per user a month.

Prices exclude taxes, and checkout shows your local price. Annual billing costs $80 a year for Plus, $300 for Premium, $1,000 for Super and $2,000 for Ultra, according to xAI’s pricing docs. Team seats cost the same as individual plans ($30, $100 or $200 per user), team plans are billed monthly, and Plus isn’t offered to teams.

By the pricing page’s multiples, bigger plans include more usage per dollar. Ultra gives 50x Plus’s usage for 25x the price, while Premium gives 4x for 3.75x the price.

Is Cursor Pro $20 still available?

No, not for new subscribers. On October 20, 2026, a Cursor staff member wrote that “standalone Cursor Pro at $20/month is a legacy plan now,” which is why its Upgrade button leads to The X Subscription. Existing Pro subscribers keep their price and features unless they switch.

Cursor’s Legacy Cursor plans page maps every old plan to its closest new tier:

Cursor’s docs say “comparable” means the closest tier, not an identical one. Staff said Pro+ has no one-to-one replacement. The bigger change is how usage works:

What happens to Claude and GPT models in Cursor?

On The X Subscription, Claude, GPT and other third-party models cost extra: Premium and above bill them at API list prices from prepaid credit, from the first request.

• No included allowance. Staff confirmed Premium, Super and Ultra, individual or Teams, include no third-party allowance.
• Plus is Grok-only. Plus can’t run third-party models, and bring-your-own-key is limited to Premium and above.
• No surprise charges. With no credit and Auto Top-up off, a third-party model won’t run; Cursor prompts you to buy credits instead.
• A hard off switch. Staff say a monthly limit of $0 refuses anything that would use credits, including usage past your weekly allowance.
• Legacy plans are unchanged. Pro, Pro+, Ultra and Teams keep their Other Models pool, drawn down at each model’s API price, until you switch.

That’s the real price change for heavy Claude users: the $20 Pro plan included an Other Models allowance, and the $30 Premium plan includes none.

Cursor Plus vs Premium: which plan do you need?

Pick Plus at $8/month if Grok models in Cursor’s Agent are enough. Pick Premium at $30/month for cloud agents, Bugbot reviews, Grok Bot, or Claude and GPT.

Plus includes Cursor’s Agent, unlimited Tab completions, Grok chat, voice, Imagine and Build, Grok API access (billed separately) and a checkmark on X. It leaves out cloud agents, automations, Bugbot, Origin, Grok Bot, video generation and third-party models. Cursor recommends Plus for social creators with light AI use and Premium for new AI users.

The cheapest ways to use Cursor as of October 22, 2026:

• Free ($0): limited agent and chat requests.
• Plus ($8/month): the cheapest paid plan, priced in rupees at checkout in India.
• A legacy plan you already have: Pro at $20 still includes third-party models. Don’t let it lapse, because it can’t be repurchased.
• Premium with a $0 credit limit: you pay $30 and nothing more, because anything that would use credits is refused.

Cursor’s free year of Pro for students ended on June 25, 2026, when the program closed to new sign-ups.

Should you switch or stay on a legacy plan?

Stay on a legacy Cursor plan if you rely on Claude, GPT or Gemini. Switch if you mostly code with Grok models or already pay for SuperGrok or X Premium.

Stay if:

• Most of your usage is third-party models, which your legacy allowance still covers.
• You prefer a monthly pool to a weekly one.
• You pay with Alipay. Staff say The X Subscription doesn’t support it yet.
• You’re on India’s Start plan. You can’t buy it back.

Switch if:

• You code mainly with Grok or Composer, where Cursor promises at least twice the usage.
• You also pay for SuperGrok or X Premium. Those are cancelled at checkout with a prorated refund, leaving one bill.
• You want Grok Bot or video generation.

Switching is permanent, and Support can’t undo it. Canceling a legacy plan instead refunds nothing for the current period. Legacy subscribers can still move between legacy tiers, such as Pro to Ultra, unless they pay through the Apple App Store. Cursor said on October 20 there’s no timeline for migrating existing plans; an October 13 staff reply said non-switchers will eventually be migrated with advance notice.

What are Cursor users confused about?

The forum announcement had more than 12,000 views and 255 posts by October 22, 2026. User reports, with Cursor’s replies:

• The $20 button. A Free user saw “Pro $20/mo — Upgrade” but landed on The X Subscription. Staff said the label is out of date.
• India’s Start plan. A user’s “Upgrade to Start” click opened the X Subscription checkout. Staff said Start is now legacy and pointed to Plus.
• Higher checkout prices. A Pro+ subscriber saw Super at $120, not $100. Staff said the switch page can include local taxes.
• Weekly limits running out. Switchers reported fast-draining pools. On October 20, Cursor said it is investigating; some of the drain appears to come from features like Grok Imagine.
• Legacy metering. On October 22, a legacy Ultra subscriber posted math suggesting the Other Models allowance drains faster than API prices imply; staff merged it into an existing usage-meter bug thread.

What are the alternatives with Claude or GPT included?

If you want Claude or GPT inside a flat price, these tools bundle it, per PromoClock’s data as of October 2026:

• Claude Code comes with Claude Pro at $20/month ($17/month billed yearly) and Max at $100 or $200/month. See Claude Pro vs Max.
• GitHub Copilot Pro costs $10/month with $15 in monthly AI Credits, spendable on models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and xAI.
• Windsurf, now called Devin Desktop, charges $20/month for Pro with a daily and weekly token quota.
• Codex is included in ChatGPT Go at $8/month and Plus at $20/month.

Our best AI coding tools roundup compares 15 options.

Bottom line

Current Cursor Pro, Pro+ or Ultra subscribers who use Claude or GPT should stay put: the legacy plan includes third-party models, and Premium doesn’t. Grok-first coders, and anyone already paying for SuperGrok or X Premium, get more for the money by switching. New buyers on a budget should start with Free, then Plus at $8/month. Pick Premium at $30 only if you need cloud agents, Bugbot or third-party models, and set a credit limit on day one.