THE RECEIPT TRAIL: WHAT THEY CHARGE VS WHAT YOU ACTUALLY PAY

Cursor and Windsurf are not AI coding tools. They're slot machines wrapped in a dark theme. Both exploits Claude Opus 4.7's broken tokenizer - which silently inflates your token count by 32-45% - to drain your credit card. Cursor's "Max Mode" burns $20-30/day after the bait-and-switch from "unlimited" plans. Windsurf's quota system incinerates 50% of your weekly allowance in a single session, then abandoned its users when Google bought the founders for $2.4B. Both are backed by the same VCs, use the same predatory playbook, and leave you holding a bill for code that doesn't even compile.