PAID GROK BOT USERS WOKE UP AT 100%. MUSK: IT COST TOO MUCH TO RUN. nov 1, 04:10 UTC. weekly meters jump 52% → 100% overnight. no warning, no reset 600k+ daily users. $30 entry. no free tier the idea: if your income runs on someone's agent, you rent it by the hour i went through the cursor forum thread, the status page and the oct 20 earnings call. here's the tape 1. METER: spike at 04:10–04:20 UTC · 52% → 100% overnight · 58% → 100% in under 1h with nothing running · 68% → 98% by morning 2. STATUS PAGE: billing + usage dashboard incident 05:38 → 10:53 UTC · closed with zero explanation 3. MUSK: replied 23 min after a reset ask · "unsustainably high relative to revenue" · 400+ replies in 1h 4. MATH: 600k daily users × $30 ≈ $200M a year · one Cursor Ultra user burns $1,000 of weekly usage in ~8h 5. OCT 20 CALL: "never seen anything grow this fast" · 800k paid weekly users · 12 days later → rationing 6. THE FIX BEING TESTED: hit 100% → popup offers a reset if you opt into training data · you pay twice, once in cash, once in data one builder in the thread: the jump halted a major update to his paid SaaS alone a usage cap is a footnote. stacked under 600k people running side hustles on it, it's a kill switch someone else holds if your paid product runs on one agent, you don't own the product. second model wired in, on-demand capped. cursor staff told people to set that cap the same day next week the same meter decides whose product ships