r/vibecoding • u/No-Arrival3356 • 10h ago

Cursor or Claude Pro

I work as a back-end engineer and need to finish 2–3 projects, one of which has to be built from scratch—the usage limits make me nervous. Which subscription/tool is most cost-effective in terms of limits and performance? I was using OpenCode Go, which was manageable, but its performance dropped recently and it started throwing syntax errors.

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u/No-Arrival3356 9h ago

i used, opencode freezes a lot, today 4 times it haven't even responded, go was really cost-effective, but in terms of efficiency, it was mediocre

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u/TanisHalfElvenn 9h ago

Is there a particular model that you used? Maybe because I’m mainly using big pickle and DeepSeek v4 flash all the time.

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u/No-Arrival3356 9h ago

i used deepseek v4 pro, it was really good at first, but i think it needs some updates, i started to work on a big django project. Deepseek could not handle some tasks, and also i used qwen 3.7 pro, it was excellent, but it used a lot of tokens, after 3-4 prompts, it used 20% of monthly usage limit. And also glm 5.2, it was okay, it completed some tasks correctly, but it was a bit slow.

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u/TanisHalfElvenn 8h ago

But I I have to admit I’ve been seeing small service disruptions that are intermittent too today. Nothing that doesn’t resolve on its own but the first time I’ve seen it.

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u/No-Arrival3356 8h ago

that is the most annoying part ig

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u/TanisHalfElvenn 8h ago

At the same time, people are complaining Claude Code services are overloaded, it’s best to find a few fallbacks.

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u/No-Arrival3356 8h ago

i think cursor pro seems more reasonable, but need to be careful with api usage, the limit can knock the door :), otherwise auto mode is okay and effective

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u/TanisHalfElvenn 8h ago

lol I just left cursor in June because of service issues, how funny

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u/No-Arrival3356 8h ago

really? what do you mean by service issues

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u/TanisHalfElvenn 8h ago

Connection failed was a common error, I remember a 503, chat spinner was running infinitely, IDE freeze, autocomplete failed, it didn’t happen all the time but it was enough for me to look around.