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Now let's go ahead and conclude this section and talk about cursor pricing, because this is probably

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one of the hardest pills to swallow.

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Now you need to understand that running or making calls against an LM model is not cheap at all.

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So it's not really a big surprise that cursor is charging its users for the ability of using its tool

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with this LMS.

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Now, the thing what you need to understand is currently you are probably on a two week trial.

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So you have the pro plan, which is actually for most users.

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Excellent.

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I would say it's really, really good.

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And this is what I've been using also throughout this entire session.

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However, after this two weeks, the Pro trial will expire and you're only going to get access to less

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powerful models.

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And you know they still work, but you're not going to have the same experience we had with this premium

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models.

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Throughout this course, you're going to notice that the models are struggling.

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They're not giving you so good responses.

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They let's say quote unquote, they're a bit more stupid.

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And my experience with the free plan is that it's not good at all.

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So you will very soon hit this limits in terms of the models that you can use and whatever else is available

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in terms of the models, they are pretty basic.

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They are not so good.

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Cursor also allows you the possibility of adding custom models with an API key that's available from

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settings.

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So if you go here inside the cursor settings, you're going to find here models.

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This is where you can enable the various models that you can use.

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For example, currently on the free plan you would have access here to think for a mini.

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And there's also a model from cursor which is called cursor small, but none of them is really, really

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great for the things that we want to do.

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And here you're going to find also the option of using your own OpenAI API key or anthropic API key

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or Google key, API key, and so on.

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So you can add here your own model essentially.

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However, the catch is that you cannot use the Agentic mode.

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So the Agentic mode works only with specific models that have been adapted for this agentic use.

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And these are models that are provided directly by cursor.

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So you cannot really be on the free plan and use some more advanced models by using your own API key,

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just in case you were thinking about going this path.

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So in a nutshell, if you like cursor and you can afford it, you'll have to pay this pro plan because

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the free plan, as I was saying earlier, is not good at all or okay, continue with the rest of the

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course where we're going to explore also other tools and find something that fits your budget.