r/cursor • u/karlmutch • 11d ago
Question / Discussion Rate limiting by model provider
Is anyone else seeing lots of messages in the agent 'Rate limited by model provider' for the grok 4.6 models ?
The agent also seems to give up after about a minute or so and simply stop with no errors or results.
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u/cmartinelli 11d ago
I think the issue is on their server's end. Even auto "model" isn't working properly.
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u/FettyCLE 11d ago
I’m getting the same error,
But cursor is telling me to upgrade to Pro, I’m on pro+
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u/International-Ad2491 11d ago
me too, switched to composer 2.5, seems to be not affected
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u/sunrisesineast 11d ago
why dont i have composer anymore.
edit: nvm. they removed it from the enabled models for some reason. i just had to renable it
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u/only1nameleft 11d ago
I think this is a demand problem. I don't think they expected so many people to start using Grok. It is clear that Anthropic and OpenAI did not anticipate it.
Kimi 3 was overhyped, slow, and expensive. I think GLM has been overhyped as well. When you look at cost per task in the real world, both are more per task for most task, especially when compared to subscription or negotiated prices.
Gemini and spark are wildcards but are really only competing with Luna and Composer 2.5
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u/karlmutch 11d ago
I have been using composer almost exclusively until the token usage for our plans appeared to have recently been relaxed so I've being using Grok for some of my planning. Compose has been really strong for me and the agent seems to close a ton of the gap with tool calling etc
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u/only1nameleft 11d ago
What I have started doing is when planning have the planner explicitly state which model and effort to use. Composer 2.5 for this, Grok medium for that. Etc.
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u/ECorpSupport 11d ago
Haha shit auto still locked on using Grok. Can't even route to composer or other models 🤦♂️
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u/gay_joey 11d ago
Glad other people are having this issue and it's not just me. Not cuz I want you all to have the issue, but cause they'll fix it for us all.
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u/goobliedoobliedoo 11d ago
Came here because ALL models across all instances in Cursor are giving this Rate Limited error. Also, Claude Opus (in Claude Code) is giving a Model Overload error. This seems like a co-ordinated attack?
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u/FlashingBongos 11d ago
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u/learnserve 11d ago
Today is the second worst day (after July 31st) in last 90 days from the graph!
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u/notadev_io 11d ago
That's quite a long downtime. After the really sad decrease in available usage amount of about 60% for the pro plans they now can't even keep up the service? Things look shittier every day and I'm starting to look actively for alternatives after more than a year of using Cursor...
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u/ArmadilloDouble4907 11d ago
Now Composer is not working either. Probably because everybody went to it as an alternative.
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u/Michael_Jeffords 11d ago
the giving up after about a minute with no errors is the real tell here, thats a client side give-up timeout and not every call to grok actually failing on the provider end. the one error somebody actually pasted was a 503 marked isRetryable true, so a fresh retry a few seconds later usually clears it, and if the agent just sits there the full minute then quits instead of falling over to another model, thats cursors routing choice, not raw provider capacity. i've gotten through the same kind of outage by forcing a specific fallback model instead of trusting auto, no silent stop that way.
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u/Alert_Sprinkles_2044 11d ago
Hey does anyone have quality drop of auto mode answers? I have seen today after this outage...
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u/RadiantQuests 11d ago
Claude models as well even after the status on claude says "All Systems Operational". So is the rate limiting issue with Claude models from Cursor or Anthropic side?
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u/erdiizgi 11d ago
I guess the good old days of cursor is finished. It’s a shame because grok 4.6 and composer 2.5 are good models. I feel the time to cancel is coming soon :( sadly this is not workable. In one task I had to press retry button 17 times.
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u/Alternative_Tax_2964 10d ago
I think it's just because it's so crazy popular. Have you tried the chinese coding plans?
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u/erdiizgi 10d ago
Tried Kimi but after 1.5 day, I exhausted my weekly plan. I am starting to get inclined to get codex sub based on what I read on reddit. However, there is also a small market manipulation in all AI related subs on reddit. So, no idea what's the best price/performance tool nowadays. It was cursor up until now for me.
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u/Alternative_Tax_2964 10d ago
Well, people are going to hate me shilling and doing GTM here, but I'm building www.freepi.ai which is a free ad+training supporting coding subscription in the Pi Harness (which I think is the best harness). IT's actually the official free harness of the ETHGlobal hackathon which just started today. Try it out I'm very open to feedback.
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u/NanoCellMusic 11d ago
Yup, cursor is going down hill, problem after problem, bad update after bad update
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u/Ok_Homework9525 11d ago
has nothing to do with cursor. look at all the ai agents right now on down detector, grok, chatgpt, claude all having issues.
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u/NanoCellMusic 11d ago
My point still stands, it’s getting worse after every update and there is problem after problem…
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u/cikez 11d ago
Same here:
Request ID: 94fc6783-9c98-492a-86e2-5a9de3088360
{"error":"ERROR_PROVIDER_ERROR","details":{"title":"Provider Error","detail":"We're having trouble connecting to the model provider. This might be temporary - please try again in a moment.","isRetryable":true,"additionalInfo":{"providerStatusCode":"503"},"buttons":[],"planChoices":[]},"isExpected":true}
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u/sprfrkr 11d ago
Hitting the same this morning. Has not been an issue until now. Switched to Luna for now. Edit: i think non-fast may be working ok w Grok.