How to Cancel Cursor Pro (and Get a Refund If June 2025 Burned You)
Cursor's cancel flow is short: four clicks through the Stripe portal, about three minutes. The drama, if any, is on the refund side, not the cancel side.
Read this before you cancel
If you got hit with a surprise overage charge, there is a refund email.
In June 2025, Cursor silently swapped its Pro plan from request-based limits to API-rate usage-based billing. Heavy users burned through their $20 monthly credit pool in a single agent session. Cursor's Trustpilot score dropped to 1.7 out of 5, and CEO Michael Truell publicly apologized, admitting the company "didn't handle this pricing rollout well."
The concession: full refunds for charges between June 16 and July 4, 2025, requested at [email protected]. Email before you cancel. For overages outside that window, [email protected] handles refunds case-by-case despite the TOS saying fees are non-refundable.
The four clicks
Same path for Pro ($20/mo), Pro+ ($60/mo), and Ultra ($200/mo), monthly or annual. Teams plans are different (only the admin can cancel a seat). Enterprise is by contract.
Sign in at cursor.com/dashboard
There is no cancel option inside the Cursor editor. Billing only lives on the web. Use the email tied to the subscription.
Click Billing and Invoices in the sidebar
Glance at the usage meter before going further so you know what overage you might still be on the hook for this cycle.
Click Manage Subscription (opens Stripe)
Launches Stripe's Customer Portal in a new tab. Cursor may offer a "schedule a downgrade instead" option; ignore it if you want fully out. Button missing? See the next section.
Click Cancel Subscription in Stripe, confirm
Short reason survey (non-blocking). Confirm. You'll get a Stripe receipt by email within a minute. Before you walk away, disable "Usage Limits" in Cursor settings so no straggler overage charges hit after cancel.
The thing the support docs don't mention
"Manage Subscription" sometimes isn't there.
On the official Cursor forum, users keep reporting (most recently January 2026) that Manage Subscription is missing for accounts with unpaid invoices, billing flags, or legacy plans. No button, no Stripe portal.
The fix is email. Send a one-liner to [email protected]: "please cancel my subscription effective end of current period." A human responds within a business day. Do not chargeback first; Cursor's refund policy warns it can suspend your account.
When the charge actually stops
Cancel takes effect at the end of your billing period. You keep Pro until then, and the account drops back to the free Hobby plan. Per TOS Section 4.4, cancel at least 24 hours before renewal for it to apply to the next cycle. Annual plans are non-refundable for unused months. And note: usage-based overages billed separately do not get cancelled by hitting cancel, so any overage already accrued this cycle will still hit.
Questions people actually ask
I was charged way more than $20 last month. Can I still get a refund?
If the overage hit between June 16 and July 4, 2025, the CEO publicly committed to full refunds at [email protected]. Outside that window, TOS Section 4.1 says fees are non-refundable, but [email protected] has a documented history of issuing goodwill refunds for surprise overages. Send your account email, the charge amount, the date, and the invoice ID. Do not chargeback first.
Why is the Manage Subscription button missing from my billing page?
Known issue, not a dark pattern. It tends to disappear for accounts with unpaid invoices, billing flags, or legacy plans. Email [email protected] and ask them to cancel from the back end.
Can I just switch to BYOK and keep using Cursor for free?
Not anymore. Bring Your Own Key now only routes the chat model. Tab completions and the Agent/Edit features run on Cursor's own custom models and require a paid plan. BYOK is a partial workaround, not an exit.
I'm on the annual plan. Do I get a prorated refund if I cancel mid-year?
Not by default. You keep access through year-end, no refund for unused months. Users on the forum report goodwill partial refunds when the annual upgrade was clearly accidental, but there is no guarantee. Always worth asking [email protected].
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