Most agency plan comparisons stop at the seat price. For Cursor that is the least useful number, because every paid tier bundles a different amount of API usage on top of the seat, and on one tier the included usage is worth more than the seat itself.
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The number that actually separates the tiers
Cursor’s paid plans include a monthly API usage allowance, and continuation past it is on-demand rather than a hard stop:
| Plan | Seat | Included usage | Usage per $1 of seat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cursor Pro | $20/mo | $20/mo | $1.00 |
| Cursor Pro+ | $60/mo | $70/mo | $1.17 |
| Cursor Ultra | $200/mo | $400/mo | $2.00 |
| Cursor Teams | $40/seat/mo | $20/active seat/mo | $0.50 |
Ultra is the only tier where the allowance is worth more than the fee. Teams is the only tier where it is worth less, and that is the whole point of it.
What the Teams premium buys
Teams costs twice what Pro does and includes the same $20 of usage. The extra $20 per seat is not buying capacity; it is buying shared governance, billing visibility and admin controls across contributors, plus on-demand usage enabled by default rather than opted into per person.
For an agency that bills clients, that is usually the right trade. You cannot allocate cost to a client engagement if six developers are each expensing a personal Pro subscription. But do not buy it expecting more throughput: a developer who hits the cap on Pro will hit it at the same point on Teams.
One detail worth knowing before you count seats: Teams bills per active user. Agencies with contractors who cycle on and off projects pay for the months people work, not for a fixed roster.
Solo-heavy work: stay on Pro until the usage math flips
If your delivery is mostly individuals owning their own projects, Cursor Pro at $20 is the default and Pro+ is a usage decision, not a seniority one. The switch is worth it when a developer’s on-demand spend consistently pushes their monthly total past $60, because at that point Pro+ hands back $70 of allowance for the same money.
Ultra follows the same logic one tier up, and its ratio is unusually favourable: $200 buys $400 of usage. For a small number of very heavy users (the people running agents continuously through a delivery crunch), it is cheaper than Pro plus on-demand.
Team-heavy work: the mixed roster is normal
Nothing forces an agency onto one tier. The common shape is Teams seats for everyone who touches client code, so cost stays attributable, plus Ultra for the two or three people whose throughput sets the delivery date.
If you are compliance-bound (client contracts that dictate where code and prompts may go), Cursor Enterprise is the tier that adds pooled usage across the organisation with team and member spend controls, priced through sales rather than published.
The escalation trigger
Watch on-demand spend per developer, not rate-limit complaints. Complaints tell you someone was interrupted; the spend line tells you whether moving them up a tier would have been cheaper. When a Pro seat’s monthly on-demand consistently exceeds $40, that developer belongs on Pro+.