No longer sold, still billed

Two plans exist where you thought there was one

The plan on the buy page and the plan you hold are the same thing only while it is being sold. Eight plans stopped being sold in the last hundred days while continuing to bill. Four of those withdrawals happened on a single day, when xAI moved its SuperGrok tiers to The X Subscription.

The mechanism was a redirect. The page that had sold SuperGrok for months began answering with a forward to a subscription page, and that page sells four tiers of something else. Nothing said the old plans were ending, because they were not ending. They stopped being offers.

Two smaller withdrawals in the same span came from providers most readers have never bought from. That is the ordinary case, and it is the one nobody writes a thread about.

Cursor's Pro and Pro+ went the same way two weeks earlier. Nothing was cancelled. The purchase page stopped offering them, and the documentation still describes them for the people who kept paying.

A catalog that keeps a withdrawn plan listed at its old price would be lying about what you can buy, and dropping the row entirely would hide what you already have. We keep it, mark it grandfathered, and treat the plan as current for the people inside it.

The promise is price continuity, not development

The public statements say the same thing in slightly different words: existing subscribers continue, switching is optional. That is a promise about the invoice. It says nothing about whether the plan keeps receiving new models or new limits. A withdrawn plan is a subscription with no roadmap, and the price you pay for it is whatever the tier cost on the day it stopped being sold.

Read the wording again and notice what it protects. It protects the price and the right to keep using what already exists. A roadmap is a different promise, and no provider makes it in writing for a tier it has stopped selling.

A frozen plan is still a decision you are making, because you are paying today's price for a product that stopped being designed. The only way to know which kind of grandfather you got is to watch whether anything new lands on it.

The replacement is a different shape, not a smaller one

When Cursor retired its $20 Pro tier, the replacement was not simply cheaper or dearer. The old plan carried a monthly pool for third-party models equal to its own price. The cheapest tier now on sale is $8 and covers Grok models only, with third-party models billed at list price from the first request.

The quote comes from a thread where the commenter had already measured both plans over several weeks. They still moved, and the included usage did not survive the move. The thread is full of readers doing that arithmetic in public, which is how the gap between the two prices became visible at all.

That is the trap in a withdrawal. The comparison you are offered is between two prices, while the thing you actually trade is a pool and a billing rule. Pro+ subscribers had a larger monthly pool for third-party models. The tier nearest to it carries none, which changes the monthly cost of anyone who used that pool.

What nobody publishes

No provider states how long a withdrawn plan keeps its terms, whether it keeps its model list, or what happens when the last subscriber leaves. We see the sale stop and nothing else.

Our coverage has the same gap. We only know about withdrawals for plans we tracked, and a small provider can retire a tier without an announcement anyone would find.

The absence is worth naming. A grandfather clause with no end date costs the provider nothing to keep, because nothing in it commits them to building anything. We keep the row and its changelog rather than deleting it, because a deleted row takes the record of what you were paying for with it.

Check before you renew

Three checks, and the first one takes a minute:

• Look for your tier on the buy page. If it is gone, you are on a withdrawn plan, and the tier now on sale is the thing to price against.
• Compare what the replacement includes, not what it costs. Cursor's cheapest tier has no third-party allowance at all.
• Ask support whether a withdrawn plan still receives new models. No pricing page answers that question.

Check the providers named here

We do not rank plans here. Open the records and read the verified figures yourself.