Provider guide

Connect Cursor to Stax.

Live API

Stax pulls per-seat daily usage and spend from Cursor's team admin API. You see who's actually using their seat, who isn't, and where the month's spend is concentrating.

Auth

Admin API key

Bearer token

Setup time

~2 min

Team admin only

First sync

~5 min

Current month backfilled

Granularity

Per seat

Native unit for Cursor

Step 1

Generate the admin API key.

Click Create API key.
Name it Stax or similar.
Copy the key.

Admins only. Regular team members can't see the API keys page at all. If you're not an admin you'll need to ask one — Cursor's permission model doesn't let non-admins generate billing keys.

Step 2

Paste the key into Stax.

In Stax, go to /app → Providers → Cursor → Connect. Paste the key into the field labeled API key and save.

Stax validates against /teams/members before saving so we can confirm the key actually has team-scope. Then it's encrypted at rest.

Step 3

What you'll see after the first sync.

The initial backfill pulls the current calendar month of per-member daily usage. After that, Stax syncs nightly. You'll see:

Spend in USD per seat per day from /teams/spend and /teams/daily-usage-data.
Idle-seat detection. Members with zero AI assists in the last 14 days surface as candidates for reallocation or downgrade.
Acceptance rate per member — useful signal for whether a developer is getting value from Cursor specifically (versus paying for it but ignoring suggestions).
Plan information (Cursor Business at $40/seat/mo or your custom enterprise rate).

Cursor abstracts away tokens — its plans bill on "AI requests" and "fast model calls." Stax shows those raw counts plus the dollar conversion. Per-project attribution is not available because Cursor doesn't tag spend by repo.

Common errors

401 Unauthorized

Key was created by a non-admin. Even if the key string looks valid, Cursor enforces admin scope on the team endpoints. Have a team admin regenerate it.

404 team not found

Personal plan, not Business / Enterprise. The team admin API only exists on paid team plans. Personal Cursor subscriptions have no billing API and can't be tracked via this integration.

Empty member list

You're on the wrong team. Cursor lets one user be in multiple teams. The key is scoped to whichever team was selected when you generated it. Confirm in the URL and regenerate from the right context.

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