Cursor's usage-based pricing bills by tokens. Paste a typical prompt to see the cost per model, estimate your monthly spend, and find the cheapest model that still does the job.
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Cursor bills on the input + output tokens each model uses per request, at that model's API price. Paste a prompt above to estimate your per-request and monthly cost across models.
It depends on the task, but small models (GPT-4o-mini, Gemini Flash, Claude Haiku) can be 10–100x cheaper than frontier models for routine edits. The calculator ranks them for your prompt.
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