Is Cursor Down Right Now?

The card above reads Cursor’s official status feed, so it reflects what Anysphere is reporting about its own systems rather than a guess based on user reports. If it shows an incident, the problem is upstream of you and no amount of restarting will fix it. If it shows operational but Cursor is still failing on your machine, the checklist further down separates a platform fault from a local one.

Cursor spans more than the editor window. Anysphere reports separately on the IDE itself, Tab completions, Agent and Cloud Agents, the CLI, and cursor.com. A green overall signal with one component degraded is common, and it usually shows up as one feature failing — Tab going quiet while chat still answers, for instance — rather than the whole app breaking.

Cursor Depends on Model Providers It Does Not Control

This is the single most useful thing to know when Cursor stops working. Cursor is an editor wrapped around models from Anthropic, OpenAI and others. When one of those providers has an incident, requests inside Cursor fail even though Cursor’s own infrastructure is healthy and its status page stays green.

That is why "Cursor is down" and "Cursor’s status page says everything is fine" are so often true at the same time. If Cursor reports operational but every request errors or hangs, check Claude status and OpenAI status before troubleshooting your own setup. Switching to a model from a different provider in Cursor’s model picker is the fastest workaround, and it also confirms the diagnosis: if another model answers normally, the fault is with the first provider.

What Causes Cursor Downtime?

Most Cursor disruptions fall into four groups. Upstream model-provider incidents are the most frequent and the least visible, for the reason above. Cursor’s own cloud services — Agent runs, background indexing, Cloud Agents — can fail independently of the editor. Account and quota problems look like outages but are limits: hitting a request ceiling on your plan produces errors that read like failures. Finally, the local environment gets in the way more often than people expect, particularly corporate proxies, VPNs and TLS inspection, which break the editor’s connection to Cursor’s servers while every other app keeps working.

Large codebases add a fifth category. Indexing a big repository is resource-intensive, and a stalled or corrupted index makes Cursor feel broken — slow, forgetful, or unable to find files — without any outage at all.

⚠️ Common Cursor Problems Users Report

✅ What to Check First

1. 1Read the live card above. If Cursor reports an incident, the fault is upstream and you only need to wait.
2. 2Switch to a model from a different provider. If that works, the original provider is the problem, not Cursor.
3. 3Check Claude and OpenAI status — an incident at either breaks requests inside a perfectly healthy Cursor.
4. 4Read the exact error text. Anything mentioning a limit, quota or usage is an account ceiling, not an outage.
5. 5Disconnect from any VPN and test off your corporate network. Proxies and TLS inspection block Cursor while leaving other apps working.
6. 6Restart Cursor, then sign out and back in, to clear a stale authentication token.
7. 7For a large repository, check whether indexing has stalled and re-index if it has.

🌐 Down for Everyone or Just Me?

How Reliable Is Cursor?

The uptime figure on the card is Anysphere’s own published 90-day number for the IDE component, not an estimate of ours. Cursor generally runs in the high-99s, and the disruptions users notice most are usually short: a model provider wobbling, or one component such as Tab or Agent degrading for a while.

The daily strip beneath it shows one bar per day for the last 90 days, so a run of amber bars tells you whether what you are seeing is a one-off or part of a rougher patch. Because Cursor’s hardest dependency is other companies’ models, its felt reliability is often lower than its own uptime suggests — another reason to check the model providers first.

When Will Cursor Be Back?

Short component degradations usually clear within an hour. Incidents traced to a model provider last as long as that provider’s incident does, which is outside Anysphere’s control — the provider’s own status page is the better guide there. Account and quota problems do not resolve on their own; they reset on your plan’s schedule or when you change plan.

If you need to keep working, switching models inside Cursor is faster than waiting. Requests inside Cursor route to whichever provider you select, so moving off the affected one restores service immediately in most incidents.

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