Can Cursor’s $20 Pro plan handle long weekend coding sessions?
This is a firsthand case of building a for Reddit with AI after work and on weekends. was used through an API, consuming about $157 of a $250 prepaid balance. The work involved planning before execution with /plan mode and sometimes pasting large amounts of HTML into the .
One Saturday included nearly continuous prompting from around 9 a.m. until about 1 a.m. the next day.
Individual tasks took anywhere from seconds or minutes to roughly an hour when a feature required substantial troubleshooting. The central concern is how restrictive Cursor’s $20 Pro plan would be with rather than a fast model. The intended setup is Cursor’s Linux , probably its GUI instead of the CLI, because more expensive plans are difficult to afford.
Key points
- About $157 of a $250 prepaid Claude API balance was used.
- One intensive session ran from roughly 9 a.m. Saturday to 1 a.m. Sunday.
- A task could finish in seconds or take about an hour when troubleshooting was needed.
- Large sections of HTML were sometimes pasted into the after planning in /plan mode.
- The planned setup is in Cursor’s Linux desktop GUI.