Cursor's current Teams documentation lists three paid seat tiers: Premium at $30 per user per month, Super at $100 and Ultra at $200, plus a free seat with no team usage allowance. Teams created before The X Subscription, the name Cursor now uses for its plans, are documented separately and keep the older Standard ($40) and Premium ($120) seats. Cursor's pages give no date for the change, so check which structure your contract is on before you compare any numbers below to an invoice.
If your company runs Cursor on a Teams plan, the seat tier you assign each engineer now decides most of the bill. This article covers what each seat includes, what Cursor bills on top of it, and how to decide who needs which tier.
The current seats
Per Cursor's Teams pricing page:
- Premium, $30 per user per month. The base paid seat, with the Premium weekly usage pool.
- Super, $100 per user per month. Cursor describes its pool as 3.75x Premium.
- Ultra, $200 per user per month. Cursor describes its pool as 12.5x Premium.
- Free, $0. No team usage allowance. The member draws on a personal plan or a small free allowance.
Seat tier is separate from role, and one team can mix tiers. Billing is per active paid seat, mid-cycle additions are pro-rated, upgrades apply immediately, and downgrades apply at the end of the period. Cursor's page says the Plus plan is not available for teams.
How usage is metered
Each paid seat has its own weekly pool for Cursor's own models (currently Grok and Composer variants). Pools are not shared between seats and usage does not transfer between members. Cursor states pool sizes as multiples of the Premium pool, not as dollar or token amounts, so you cannot convert a seat into a fixed dollar allowance from the public pages.
Third-party models such as Claude, GPT and Gemini are not in the pool. They bill at the provider's list API price plus the Cursor Token Rate, which Cursor lists at $0.25 per million tokens on eligible requests, paid from the team's prepaid balance from the first request. Cursor models bill at token rates only after a seat's weekly pool runs out. Admins fund the balance with one-time top-ups or Auto Top-up, and paid usage pauses when the balance is empty or the team's monthly additional usage limit is reached. Cursor's documentation describes that limit as a single team-wide cap, with a default per-member limit and per-member overrides.
Cursor's own pages disagree in a few places, including which third-party models are exempt from the Token Rate and the listed price of one Claude model. Treat those figures as unconfirmed until Cursor reconciles them.
The older seats
For teams created before the change, Cursor documents Standard at $40 and Premium at $120 per user per month, where the $120 seat carries five times the Standard allowance, with two pools per seat (Cursor models and other models) and on-demand usage. Cursor uses the name Premium for both the $120 seat and the $30 seat, so the name alone does not tell you which one you pay for. The $120 seat was announced in June 2026 and the first bills under it arrived in July.
What the structure does to your budget
Two things follow from the design, whichever seat names you are on.
First, the seat price is the small part of the bill for heavy users. A Premium seat at $30 is cheap, and the cost that varies is the third-party model usage on top of it, charged at list price plus the Token Rate. Two engineers on the same seat can produce very different invoices depending on how much of their work lands on third-party models. Cost by model tier and premium-model mix per developer are the numbers that explain the variance, and a forecast built on seat counts alone will miss it.
Second, the tier decision is a right-sizing decision. Super is 3.75x the Premium pool at a bit over 3x the price, and Ultra is 12.5x at under 7x the price, so the per-unit cost of included usage falls as you move up. That only helps if the engineer uses the pool. An Ultra seat on someone who stays inside the Premium pool is $170 a month of unused allowance. Decide tiers from usage over a real window, revisit them on a schedule, and do not let last quarter's assignment become this quarter's default.
Cursor's dashboard can see Cursor. It cannot see that the engineer who looks like a light Cursor user is doing heavy agent work in another assistant, or that a spike came from a one-off migration. Those are cross-vendor questions: what blended spend per developer is across every assistant your teams connect, and whether total spend rose or only moved from one vendor to another.
What to do this week
- Find out which structure your team is on: the $30, $100, $200 seats or the legacy $40 and $120 seats. Your contract or Cursor's billing page will say.
- List who is generating third-party model charges on top of their seat, and how much per person.
- Set the team's monthly additional usage limit and a default per-member limit, so an unattended agent cannot run past the balance.
- Compare each engineer's pool consumption to their tier and move anyone who is far above or far below it, remembering that downgrades take effect at period end.
Olumia is the intelligence layer for AI coding spend. It connects read-only to the assistants your teams use, such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude and OpenAI, forecasts spend before the invoice lands, and flags runaway users and idle seats with the action to take. Pricing changes like this one are the events it is built to absorb. See how it works for finance teams, or read how to forecast spend instead of reacting to it.
Originally published on the Olumia blog.
FAQ
How much does Cursor Teams cost per seat?
Cursor's Teams documentation lists Premium at $30, Super at $100 and Ultra at $200 per user per month. Teams created before The X Subscription keep Standard at $40 and Premium at $120.
What bills on top of a Cursor seat?
Third-party model usage bills at list API price plus a $0.25 per million token Cursor Token Rate, paid from a prepaid team balance. Cursor model usage bills at token rates once a seat's weekly pool is used up.
Can a team mix seat tiers?
Yes. Seat tier is separate from role, and one team can mix tiers.
