Deepseek r1 on Cursor: what's the point? : r/cursor

Now it has been integrated into Cursor (for chat, it is not available for Composer), but if it is about the same (or worse) than Sonnet, why should I use it? It only makes sense to me to use it when the fast requests made with Deepseek R1 will cost, for example, a third, thus having 1500 fast requests with Deepseek R1. Then at that point I could accept it even if it was a little worse than Sonnet because I would have three times as many requests to correct the shot (although then that takes more time, but these are considerations that everyone makes for themselves, time vs money). Considering I have exceeded the basic plan, and am paying per request dropping the price per those requests sounds pretty good to me, unless i am missing something. What is the basic plan? Are you talking about the free one or the paid one? We are saying pretty much the same thing. Currently if I run out of 500 fast requests, I can activate the usage-based pricing. That means for Sonnet 4 cents per request (5

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