I was trying to use the Databricks-hosted models by following the setup instructions from Databricks. After completing the steps, I disabled all other models so that only the Databricks model was enabled. Initially, everything seemed to work fine.
However, when I switched the model mode from “Auto” to explicitly selecting the Databricks model, I received the error:
“We’re having trouble connecting to the model provider.”
My understanding was that “Auto” should behave the same as explicitly selecting the Databricks model when it’s the only model enabled. Could you please clarify why these two modes behave differently and what might be causing the connection error?
Hey, thanks for the report. Quick clarification: Auto mode picks models from your Cursor subscription, not from your Databricks endpoint. So when Auto “works” it’s actually using Cursor’s own models, not Databricks.
Databricks isn’t officially supported as a model provider in Cursor. Supported providers are OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure OpenAI, and AWS Bedrock (docs: API Keys | Cursor Docs).
If you need to use Claude models hosted in Databricks, check if they’re available via AWS Bedrock. That’s a supported option.
