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Cursor's $20 plan is gone — and the models most Cursor users run left the usage pool
On 12 October 2026 SpaceXAI merged Grok, Cursor and X Premium into one five-tier ladder: Free, Plus $8, Premium $30, Super $100, Ultra $200. Cursor Pro at $20 is closed to new signups. The headline is a price cut, but the shared usage pool now covers Grok models only — Claude and GPT in the Cursor editor moved to pass-through API billing on Premium and above. For a developer whose daily driver is Sonnet, a flat $20 bill becomes $30 plus metered tokens.
Read story →Google is paywalling a Gemini model its own Flash overtook in May — and charging $4.99 subscribers nothing for the privilege of losing it
From 9 October 2026 the free Gemini app drops to Flash-Lite only, and Google AI Plus subscribers lose the Pro model on a date Google will email them individually rather than publish. The Pro model in question is Gemini 3.1 Pro, which Google's own Gemini 3.5 Flash passed on benchmarks at I/O in May. The headline downgrade costs paying subscribers almost nothing. The free-tier cut is the one that matters, because it removes the only way to evaluate Gemini without a card.
Read story →ChatGPT's new $500 tier did not raise any price — it deleted the only volume discount OpenAI sold
At DevDay on 29 September 2026 OpenAI launched ChatGPT Pro 500 at $500 a month with 25x the Plus allowance, reopened Pro 200, and halved Pro 200's included usage from 20x to 10x effective 30 October. Run the division: every plan in the lineup now costs exactly $20 per unit of Plus allowance. The old Pro 200 was the single exception at $10, and it is the thing that was discontinued.
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