Cursor Deleted Dollar Costs From Its Usage Page and Zeroed the API Cost Fields Retroactively — Including for Charges Users Actually Paid
On July 31 Cursor removed the 'Spend' metric and 'Cost' column from the usage page for individual and Teams self-serve plans; the CSV export retains the column but returns $0.00 for every row including historical on-demand charges, and the API's chargedCents and usageBasedCosts fields now return zero retroactively. Cursor's Kevin Neilson explained the reversal as confusion-avoidance: 'the dollar amounts displayed were often higher amounts than the user's plan cost' because included usage was counted. The thread hit 326 points and 148 comments on Hacker News within 20 hours, with developers noting they used per-request cost to decide which model to route work to — that feedback loop is now gone, and anyone who built cost dashboards on those API fields has silently broken telemetry.
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