The Developer Who Burned $1,500 in One Day on Cursor Without Knowing It

We use Cursor at our company on a shared Enterprise account. One budget, one blanket that every developer pulls in their direction. Staying within budget is a challenge every engineering team is dealing with right now. What Happened Engineering costs used to be two things: headcount and cloud infrastructure. You had tools for both. Then AI coding assistants showed up, and suddenly there's a third cost center that nobody has good tooling for. There's also model inflation -- it's genuinely hard to tell which model is better, cheaper, or more expensive. The names don't help. So one developer, in all innocence, picked a model with "Fast" in the name thinking it was the lighter, cheaper option. Turns out it was 10x more expensive per request than what everyone else was using. $1,500. One day. Nobody knew. Cursor's Dashboard Won't Save You Cursor gives you an admin panel with raw usage numbers. But it won't tell you when something is off. No anomaly detection, no alerts, no spending limits p