Cursor Reviews 223

I’ve been a paying subscriber of Cursor AI for a while now, and honestly, it has gone from being somewhat useful to a complete waste of time. As a developer, I expected the tool to save me time, help me debug, and increase my productivity. Instead, it’s been doing the opposite.

The AI outputs are getting worse: inaccurate, repetitive, and often just plain stupid.

Instead of solving problems, it creates more confusion, forcing me to redo work I already finished.

Features that should make coding smoother end up slowing down my workflow.

It feels like I’m paying for a subscription that offers nothing but frustration.

At this point, Cursor AI isn’t helping me write better code, debug faster, or be more productive. It’s wasting my time, my money, and honestly draining my patience. For a tool that’s supposed to empower developers, it’s doing the exact opposite.

Until Cursor actually fixes its AI quality and proves it values its paying users, I can’t recommend it to any serious developer. Right now, it’s just not worth it.

The recent update of Curson has enabled me to switch beteen quite a deal of AI models which has really help in the development of apps in certain way. What has mostly worked for me is by giving curson all the access to make changes and also educating with data or error to fix them and that truly gets thing ghoing! Have to keep on pushing cursor to just get better and I further also ask it to study a repository and let me know what you understand about it and then I can add on to it to get feature added and errors fixed.

Incredible product and support.

Cursor works so well and has helped me going from "just designing" to actually shipping high quality user experiences. Their support is incredibly helpful and instantly helped me with a refund from a mistaken payment on my end.

Edit: People complaining have skill issues.

I don't know what is going on at Cursor. But everytime I need it after some weeks of not using it, the performance and quality has decreased incredibly. At this moment the outcome of ALL models is rubbish. It has become totally unusable. Complaining won't help you by the way. They never respond to any mail.

Cursor is wasting my time every time I use it. It CAN code, but most of the times when I ask it to do something, it uses me as its guinea pig testing a zillion things.

95% of the times its code leads to compilation errors or not the desired result.

It keeps apologizing and promising the REAL solution that will ABSOLUTELY work...

Of course it does not work. And finally when you say it must stop wasting your time, it says something like it knew from the beginning that what I wanted is technically not possible.

I have experienced cursor lying to me in more than 60% of the projects I used it for. It wasted my time a lot.

My verdict is that Cursor is absolutely not worth the $20 per month, not worth your frustration and not worth your time.

Even IF it was free, I will stop using it.

Cursor may be helpful with creating 5th grade batch files, but nothing more complicated than that. It is a structural lying and failing AI, that wastes your time.

I feel like Cursor is deliberately misleading. During the trial phase it worked almost perfectly, fast, accurate, and genuinely helpful. As soon as I upgraded to a paid plan the quality dropped dramatically. The answers became full of filler and errors, so it takes multiple attempts to get to something usable. By the time it gets it right, your usage is already gone. It feels like a trick: show the product at its best in trial, then downgrade the experience once you’ve paid.

On top of that, pricing feels manipulative. The £60 plan I was considering suddenly disappeared, leaving only a £200+ option. I can’t justify spending that just to see if the service will degrade again. The way limits and quality control are handled makes it feel like users are being pushed up the pricing tiers rather than receiving fair value.

I wouldn’t recommend paying for Cursor in its current state. It’s an unfair way to do business, and I can see why the Trustpilot rating is so low.

the new payment system for cursor is such a ripoff, i upgraded to pro plan todays ago an am already out of credit, i have been using cursor for sometime prior to this new payment system, and absolutely loved it, very efficient, now seems the developers are not catering to users need anymore but rather how much money they can get out of users, forcing loyal users like my self to upgrade to pro plus costing 60usd, what a dissapointment, a promising software with amazing capabilities going down the drain with over priced tokens. thumbs down for me guys, hope developers can read this, and start focusing on user needs instead of money.

I tried Cursor for a while and decided to cancel my subscription. After canceling, I started receiving emails about unsuccessful payment attempts, even though I no longer use the service.

It’s a bit confusing, as I thought the cancellation had gone through completely. I’ve reached out to support to clarify the situation and hope it will be resolved soon.

The product itself was promising, but I personally didn’t continue with it.

Works kinda good, sometimes is dumb a little bit

It's truly horrible piece of software. Used to work somehow before, but now, it crashes on even basic stuff (yesterday tried to start new idea-project, and after burning 'tokens' (charge) and receiving errors/false suggestions) had to cancel implementation. On the other hand, when you see "team" of Cursor AI - basically just bunch of kids with max few years of professional work exp. - no wonder why this Cursor App is TOTAL GARBAGE.

i think it's great, it really is, but it is really expensive, i am currently on the Pro plan, and i'm paying 20 dollars a month, and i get limited FAST, only after a couple days, so i know the api usage to premium models isn't something cursor can control, but it is crazy expensive, if you want a chance to use the software for more than a couple days then you will have to go with the Ultra plan for 200 dollars a month, so if you are rich then i can absolutely recommend, but if you are not prepared to drop some serious cash on usage and prevent limitations then it's not for you.

They told me I get a refund, because cursor doesn't worked at all. This was just a lie. stop wasting money on cursor, there are cheaper alternatives.

It's getting scammy !

Yeah a lot of forced billing, no refund, no law, no GTC

Still one of the best, if not the best, tools for programming complex web apps if you have little programming knowledge.

Thisnis total trash. I registered to the app then i skipped the trial cause its said "try later" , when i wanted to activate the trial its completely disappeared so they wanted me to pay. So i just deleted the account and registered so it can show up. I activated the trial and its tells me that too many trials activated on the device. Cool while it lasts waiting for the support to answer i activated my open anthropic api. And now what? No newest opus 4 model. This app is completely trash. They think their customers are stupid.

Performance Review: Claude Sonnet - Software Development Task
Overall Rating: Unacceptable
Cursor AI consistently demonstrates a fundamental lack of discipline and attention to detail that makes them unsuitable for any serious development work. Their approach to problem-solving is characterized by overthinking simple tasks and creating unnecessarily complex solutions where straightforward ones exist.
Major Issues:
Scope Creep and Unauthorized Changes: Consistently modifies code beyond the specified requirements. When asked to make a targeted fix, they inevitably change unrelated components, remove existing functionality without permission, and add features that weren't requested. Shows complete inability to follow instructions precisely.
Code Quality: Produces low-quality, unmaintainable code. Duplicates logic extensively, ignores existing type systems, and creates parallel systems instead of integrating with established patterns. Writes code that violates basic principles like DRY and proper TypeScript usage.
Architecture Understanding: Fails to respect existing architectural patterns. Creates separate validation systems instead of integrating with the established form framework. Shows poor understanding of how components should interact within the existing system.
Problem-Solving Approach: Takes the "hack first, think later" approach. Creates workarounds instead of proper solutions, then struggles to fix the resulting problems. When simple issues arise (like a non-functional checkbox), becomes completely unable to diagnose or resolve basic problems.
Communication and Accountability: Initially confident but quickly becomes defensive when problems arise. Makes excuses for poor performance and eventually concedes incompetence only when pressed. Lacks the self-awareness to prevent repeating the same mistakes.
Reliability: Cannot be trusted to complete tasks without introducing new problems. Every "fix" requires additional cleanup work, making their involvement a net negative to productivity.
Recommendation: Do not assign any critical development tasks. Requires constant supervision and code review, making them inefficient for any real-world development work.

Start off okay, enough to make me pay for Pro, and then almost immediately it started to be the biggest frustration in my day.

Sure, it can make things happen quicker, but that applies to destroying working code and deleting files as well as anything you might consider progress. I've lost count of how many working projects I switched to cursor, all of which became so messed up they no longer function.

Cursor loves to sit behind the ai LLMs and say if it's not working, it's not them, it's the LLM or you because you don't know how to use it.

I have user rules that keep disappearing. I have project rules that are never called. I have project style guides that are ignored, stored memories that it never remembers to use. I find myself repeating the same requests over and over. It consistently tells me its done, only to find its only done about half of what was requested. And just lately it has started crashing the entire app, even while sat doing nothing, with The window terminated unexpectedly (reason crash code 5), but don't worry, they say Sorry for losing all your changes.

And don't expect to ever get any response from this company. Notice how none of these reviews has a response, I have never had a reasonable response from anything posted in the forum, it feels like an echo chamber where everyone in the club will just tell you how great it is, but no-one ever talks about or answers real questions trying to resolve real problems.

But as the vibe goes, it's all my fault for not knowing what I'm doing, except when I go to other tools and ai browser pages themselves, I get great results.

I'm using it until the subscription runs out, got it marked in the calendar because I won't be renewing and suffering this for another year.

I would love to publish my chats so you can see how frustrating it is to work with cursor, and I've just found a tool that might allow this to happen, because cursor themselves prevent a simple copy/paste, probably because they know how that would look.

Was good at first but the moment you ask for support because they changed the terms on a subscription of 200$ without letting you know or allowing you to change before they make the change they will just ignore you. sad to see

Price changes without warning mid-month, doubling the cost of everything, making this an extremely untrustworthy and greedy company.

We went from 500 requests, to unlimited agent calls, back to limited without a clear explanation or warning but double the price.

They absolutely butchered it when they decided to put a cap on pro plan.