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Cursor Pro+ vs Ultra: Which Plan, Now That Pro+ Is Legacy?

Cursor Pro+ is now a legacy plan and Super is its closest match. What Ultra adds over Pro+ and Super, what Cursor publishes about usage, and who should pay.

By Engineer Foodie Desk Nov 5, 2026 ✓ Sources checked Nov 5, 2026

8 min read

Plans, legacy rules and plan cards checked Nov 5, 2026 in Cursor’s pricing help, legacy plans docs and pricing page. Usage reset rules checked Oct 31, 2026. US prices, before tax. Every source is listed at the bottom. No affiliate links on this page (how we work).

Cursor Pro+ vs Ultra comes down to $60 against $200 a month, and one awkward fact: you can’t buy Pro+ any more. Cursor’s legacy plans “aren’t available to new customers, but existing subscribers keep them until they switch or cancel.” For new customers, Cursor names Super ($100) as Pro+‘s closest match. Ultra is $200 in both the old lineup and the new one.

So the real question depends on where you’re sitting:

You’re on legacy Pro+ and running out: legacy Ultra is a $140-a-month jump that keeps your third-party model allowance. The new Ultra is the same $200 but drops that allowance, and switching is permanent.
You’re a new customer: this is really Super vs Ultra. $100 vs $200, 15x vs 50x Plus usage.
You live on Claude or GPT inside Cursor: stay on a legacy plan. The new lineup bills every third-party request at API list price from prepaid credit.

Legacy Pro+ is the Rachel haircut at this point. Plenty of people still have it, and the salon has stopped giving it to anyone new.

Cursor Pro+ vs Ultra: the plans side by side

Verified Nov 5, 2026 (pricing help, legacy docs, pricing page).

Item	Pro+ (legacy)	Super	Ultra
Price	$60/mo	$100/mo	$200/mo
Annual	Not published	$1,000/yr	$2,000/yr
Usage	“More of each pool”	15x Plus	50x Plus
Reset	Monthly	Weekly	Weekly
Third-party	Included pool	API price, prepaid	API price, prepaid
Extras	Tab, Bugbot, agents	Priority at peaks	Earliest access
New buyers	No	Yes	Yes

A note on that Ultra column: there are two Ultras. Legacy Ultra is $200 with the same two-pool setup as Pro+, just “more of each pool”. The new Ultra is $200 with one weekly pool at 50x Plus. Cursor maps one to the other (“Ultra ($200/mo)” on both sides of its legacy table), but they aren’t built the same way.

Here’s the exact usage wording from each side:

Legacy: “Pro, Pro+, and Ultra include both usage pools, unlimited Tab completions, Bugbot, Cloud Agents, Automations, Origin, and the Cursor SDK. Pro+ and Ultra include more of each pool than Pro. Fast mode and Grok effort levels are available on all three.”
New: “Every paid plan includes a weekly pool of usage for Cursor models (Grok 4.7, Grok 4.6, Grok 4.5, and Composer 2.5), shared across Cursor and Grok.” Super is “15x more usage compared to Plus”, Ultra “50x more usage compared to Plus”.

The two legacy pools are Cursor Models (Grok 4.7, 4.6, 4.5 and Composer 2.5) and Other Models, which is “included usage for third-party models, drawn down at each model’s API price.” Pro+ and legacy Ultra both have it. The new plans don’t.

For the Pro vs Pro+ part of this story, see Cursor Pro vs Pro+. For every plan on one page, see Cursor pricing.

What Ultra actually adds

Only what Cursor documents, in Cursor’s words.

Over legacy Pro+ (if you stay legacy and move to legacy Ultra):

More of each pool. That’s it. Features are listed as identical across Pro, Pro+ and Ultra. How much more pool Ultra gets than Pro+: not published.
Upgrades “take effect immediately”, and “any credit for your previous plan is based on its unused included usage, not days remaining.” So upgrading late in a cycle when you’ve burned your pool doesn’t earn you much credit back.

Over Super (new lineup):

“50x more usage compared to Plus”, against Super’s 15x. That’s 3.33 times Super’s pool (our arithmetic on Cursor’s multiples).
“Earliest access to all products & models”. Cursor doesn’t define what earliest means or how much earlier.
Everything else carries over: Ultra is “Everything in Super”, and Super is “Everything in Premium” plus “Priority model access at peak times”.

“Earliest access to all products & models” is Michael Scott’s “World’s Best Boss” mug. Nice to hold, and you’ll notice the company printed it about itself. I’d value Ultra on the 50x and nothing else.

What Cursor doesn’t publish anywhere I checked: the size of Plus’s pool (so 50x of what, in tokens or dollars, is unknown), legacy pool sizes, or what “priority” means in numbers. Honestly, that bugs me. $200 a month is real money, and the best unit Cursor offers is a multiple of a pool it won’t size. If you want to know how you’ll actually run into the ceiling, Cursor usage limits covers the reset and cap rules.

Same-price check (our arithmetic)

Plain math on Cursor’s published prices, Nov 5, 2026:

Monthly

Legacy Pro+ $60 → Ultra $200: $140 more a month
Super $100 → Ultra $200: $100 more a month
Legacy Pro+ $60 → Super $100: $40 more a month (Cursor’s own “comparable” step)

Yearly

Legacy Pro+ at $60 monthly: $720 over 12 months (no legacy annual price is published, so that’s 12 × $60)
Super annual: $1,000 a year (Super monthly would be $1,200 over 12 months)
Ultra annual: $2,000 a year (Ultra monthly would be $2,400 over 12 months)

Per unit of Plus usage (new lineup only)

Super: $100 ÷ 15 = about $6.67
Ultra: $200 ÷ 50 = $4.00

None of these plans cost the same, so there’s no like-for-like match here. Ultra is cheaper per unit of Cursor-model usage than Super, and the gap is big: about 40% less per unit (our arithmetic). Legacy Pro+ can’t be put on that scale, because Cursor publishes no multiple for it.

One rule from Cursor that sets a floor: “Each paid plan on The X Subscription includes at least twice as much coding usage with Cursor models as the legacy plan it replaces.” So Super gives at least twice Pro+‘s Cursor-model usage, and the new Ultra at least twice legacy Ultra’s. Both come with “it also drops the included third-party model allowance”.

The catch: switching is a one-way door

If you’re on legacy Pro+ and the new Ultra looks good, read this first. Cursor’s rules, verified Nov 5, 2026:

“Switching is optional. Your legacy plan, price, and features continue unless you change or cancel.”
“You can still move between legacy plans, for example from Pro to Pro+, without switching.”
If you do switch, “your Cursor subscription is cancelled with a prorated refund, you pick a plan on The X Subscription, and the change is permanent.”
After a switch, third-party models “stay available in Cursor on Premium and above, billed at API list price from your prepaid credit.”

So a legacy Pro+ user has two very different $200 options. Legacy Ultra keeps the Other Models pool and monthly resets. New Ultra gives you 50x Plus of Cursor models every week, plus Grok and X benefits, and charges separately for every Claude or GPT request. You can’t come back.

Here’s what I’d do

Legacy Pro+, rarely hitting the cap: stay. Nothing on either Ultra is worth $140 more a month if your pool lasts the cycle.
Legacy Pro+, heavy on Claude or GPT, always out of pool: move to legacy Ultra. It’s the only $200 option that still includes third-party usage. Turning on on-demand usage (billed monthly in arrears at the same per-model rates) is the other route if it’s one heavy month rather than every month.
Legacy Pro+, mostly Grok and Composer: compare Super and the new Ultra. Super at $100 already promises at least twice Pro+‘s Cursor-model usage. Pick Ultra only if Super’s weekly pool still runs dry.
New customer: start on Super, which Cursor recommends “for daily agent users”. Move up to Ultra (“for power users”) when you’re regularly hitting Super’s weekly reset. Upgrades “apply right away”, downgrades at the end of the billing period.
Paying yearly: Ultra annual is $2,000, $400 less than 12 monthly payments. Only lock that in once a month or two of usage proves you need it.

Weighing Cursor’s top tier against rivals instead? Cursor Ultra vs Claude Max covers the $200 Claude matchup, and Cursor Ultra vs ChatGPT Pro covers OpenAI’s. If your real alternative is Claude’s $100 plan, see Cursor Pro+ vs Claude Max. Every other editor is in AI coding tools compared.

Sorting the renamed Cursor lineup? Cursor Plus vs Pro compares the new Plus plan with legacy Pro.

FAQ

Is Cursor Pro+ vs Ultra worth the upgrade? Only if you keep running out of Pro+‘s pool; legacy Ultra is $140 more a month for “more of each pool”, and Cursor doesn’t publish how much more.

Can I still buy Cursor Pro+? No, legacy plans aren’t available to new customers, but existing subscribers keep them and can still move between legacy plans.

What replaced Cursor Pro+? Cursor names Super ($100 a month, 15x Plus usage) as the closest plan to legacy Pro+ on The X Subscription.

Is legacy Cursor Ultra the same as the new Ultra? Same $200 price, different setup: legacy Ultra has two monthly pools including third-party models, while the new Ultra has one weekly 50x Plus pool for Cursor models.

Does Cursor Ultra include Claude? Not on the new lineup; Claude and other third-party models are billed at API list price from prepaid credit on Premium and above.

Is switching from legacy Pro+ to the new plans reversible? No, Cursor says the switch is permanent, with a prorated refund on your old subscription.

Sources

Cursor pricing help (lineup, annual prices, legacy availability and mapping, switching, upgrade and downgrade rules): https://cursor.com/help/account-and-billing/pricing (verified 2026-11-05)
Cursor legacy plans docs (Pro+ and Ultra prices, pools, “more of each pool”, “at least twice as much”, on-demand usage, what changes when you switch): https://cursor.com/docs/account/pricing/legacy-cursor-plans (verified 2026-11-05)
Cursor pricing page (Super and Ultra cards, priority and earliest access, plan recommendations, tax note): https://cursor.com/pricing (verified 2026-11-05)
Cursor usage and limits (weekly vs monthly reset, no rollover): https://cursor.com/help/models-and-usage/usage-limits (verified 2026-10-31)