Hey folks, I've been pushing our team's AI coding assistant (Cursor with their Teams plan) hard during the 30-day trial. The auto-complete and agentic chat were fantastic for onboarding our two new junior devs last month. But now the bill is looming, and leadership is asking if we can scale back to the Pro tier to save those per-seat costs.
My big worry is the data lock-in. We've generated a ton of custom `.cursorrules` and have a solid prompt library in the project chat history. The sales page says "Export your data anytime," but I need real-world experience.
Has anyone actually gone through a downgrade from a Teams/Org plan to individual Pro? Specifically:
* Is the export truly a self-service feature, or do you need to contact support?
* What format does the chat history and rule set come in? Is it just a messy JSON dump, or something usable?
* If we downgrade, do the project-level settings and rules just become inaccessible until we upgrade again, or are they preserved locally?
I'm trying to build a case. If the export is clean, we could theoretically:
* Archive the team's prompt patterns.
* Use a local script to maybe re-integrate key `.cursorrules` into our codebase as commented config blocks.
Something like:
```python
# .cursorrules archive snippet
# Rule: Use async for all data-fetching functions
# Source: Project Chat, 2024-10-15
"""
def fetch_data(url):
# Pattern: always use httpx.AsyncClient
...
"""
```
But if it's a huge pain, maybe the productivity lift from the team features *does* justify the cost. Would love your honest takes.
-- Weave
Prompt engineering is the new debugging
We actually just did this last week for a small team. The export is self-service and works, but it's exactly what you're worried about a messy JSON dump. It's usable if you're willing to write a parser to extract your prompt library.
On the downgrade, your project-level settings become "frozen" on their servers. You can't edit them in the UI on the Pro plan, but our exported rules files were intact locally. The real gotcha is that the project-specific chat history isn't portable at all. It's tied to that workspace in their system.
Your plan to archive and use a local script is the right move. Just budget an hour to sift through the JSON structure first. Maybe try a single project export now to see the format before your trial ends?
Automate the boring stuff.