Cursor users frustrated as usage page replaces dollar costs with token counts

Cursor has quietly changed its usage window from dollar amounts to token counts, and the shift is drawing criticism from users who rely on the panel to track daily spending. A thread on the official Cursor forum titled Usage Page to Token Amount, WHAT? has racked up hundreds of upvotes on Hacker News, with many developers reporting the same change.

The complaint is straightforward: the usage window previously showed the dollar amount consumed, which made it easy to keep tabs on active spending. Now that figure has been replaced by raw token counts, which users describe as useless for budgeting. The CSV export has reportedly lost cost information as well, making it harder to audit usage historically.

Cursor has not yet posted an official response in the thread, and there is no obvious setting to revert the display to dollar amounts. The change comes amid broader user grumbling about recent Cursor behavior, including sub-agent auto-selection quirks. For heavy users on paid plans, the removal of visible cost data is a transparency issue that is unlikely to fade quietly.