Now let's go ahead and conclude this section and talk about cursor pricing, because this is probably
one of the hardest pills to swallow.
Now you need to understand that running or making calls against an LM model is not cheap at all.
So it's not really a big surprise that cursor is charging its users for the ability of using its tool
with this LMS.
Now, the thing what you need to understand is currently you are probably on a two week trial.
So you have the pro plan, which is actually for most users.
Excellent.
I would say it's really, really good.
And this is what I've been using also throughout this entire session.
However, after this two weeks, the Pro trial will expire and you're only going to get access to less
powerful models.
And you know they still work, but you're not going to have the same experience we had with this premium
models.
Throughout this course, you're going to notice that the models are struggling.
They're not giving you so good responses.
They let's say quote unquote, they're a bit more stupid.
And my experience with the free plan is that it's not good at all.
So you will very soon hit this limits in terms of the models that you can use and whatever else is available
in terms of the models, they are pretty basic.
They are not so good.
Cursor also allows you the possibility of adding custom models with an API key that's available from
settings.
So if you go here inside the cursor settings, you're going to find here models.
This is where you can enable the various models that you can use.
For example, currently on the free plan you would have access here to think for a mini.
And there's also a model from cursor which is called cursor small, but none of them is really, really
great for the things that we want to do.
And here you're going to find also the option of using your own OpenAI API key or anthropic API key
or Google key, API key, and so on.
So you can add here your own model essentially.
However, the catch is that you cannot use the Agentic mode.
So the Agentic mode works only with specific models that have been adapted for this agentic use.
And these are models that are provided directly by cursor.
So you cannot really be on the free plan and use some more advanced models by using your own API key,
just in case you were thinking about going this path.
So in a nutshell, if you like cursor and you can afford it, you'll have to pay this pro plan because
the free plan, as I was saying earlier, is not good at all or okay, continue with the rest of the
course where we're going to explore also other tools and find something that fits your budget.