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I work at a company with thousands of engineers and have people hitting $200 limits in just a few days. I think the shortest was around 1.5 work days.

I'm sure out of thousands you can have outliers, either people doing very large refactors or being kind of wasteful.

Something like 90th percentile usage is what I'd call relatively heavy.

I think your definition of heavy is different than lots of other folks I know -- I'm at $1500 / mo and am actively holding back.

I had the same and switched to Claude code max and have been continuing the way of working on Opus. Now with the lower credit burn of Opus 4.5 i haven’t had a rate limit since. Imo the Claude Code token proposition and the Claude ecosystem far outweigh the benefits of cursor. This stuff is far too effective to hold back on

Even 100/mo is a lot when you can get unlimited Sonnet for 20/mo.

Even 20/mo is a lot when you can run local open source models for the cost of electricity.