I use Cursor & Claude but mostly Cursor. Cursor supports MD files in the .claude/ directory so it’s easy to swap between both. I’m on a similar $20 plan for each (work pays for Claude) But on Cursor I never hit my limits and can always use agents whereas on Claude i hit limits so quickly I don’t bother using it that much. I can see that Claude is a fantastic tool but I don’t understand why people choose it when Cursor is so obviously better value, to me at least, but I’m curious why others don’t see it. I do use Auto+Composer mode with cursor most of the time, which has no noticable usage caps to me and is suitable for most task. If I need a more powerful model I have a far greater choice which includes most LLM providers including Anthropic. I’ve asked team mates why they prefer Claude and not Cursor. They usually say Cursor is annoying, they prefer their IDE. But cursor has plugins for more and more IDEs I believe and a CLI tool, although I’ve not used these. Some say they find the cursor tab feature annoying, which I get, but that can very easily be turned off. Again both are great tools and provide similar results but the usage I get from Cursor is far greater than with Claude, where I am hitting usage limits most days I try it. Most people I know use Claude. I think it’s because most people adopt what they see others doing. Also, maybe because Cursor used to mean you had to switch IDE, not having a CLI tool at the beginning that’s why people started with Claude. Perhaps I use agents more so I notice the limits more. I don’t know, hence this post? I use Sonnet with Claude mainly but perhaps I should be using Haiku to avoid the limit cut offs. But I mean I hit limits after a day or two with Claude and only once have I hit a limit with Cursor in ~18 months, and even then I could fall back to auto+Composer mode. My current approach is to use Cursor for the lion’s share of my work and to try Claude out a few times a month. But it seems you’d need to be on a $100 plan with Claude to get any proper use from it. submitted by /u/httpquake
Originally posted by u/httpquake on r/ClaudeCode
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