Cursor Agent and Ask responses are unusually slow

Bug Reports
1

Describe the Bug

I was wondering if other users have been experiencing a dramatic slowdown in response times (regardless of model choice) when using the chat/agent?

Steps to Reproduce

  • Open AI pane
  • Select model
  • Input code related question

Expected Behavior

  • Open AI pane
  • Select model
  • Input code related question
  • Progress dots appear, response takes minutes to start

Operating System

MacOS
Linux

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.4.5 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: af58d92614edb1f72bdd756615d131bf8dfa5290
Date: 2025-08-13T02:08:56.371Z (1 day ago)
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.4.0

2

Hey, thanks for the report. Could you let me know which model you’re using?

3

Hi I’m still experiencing this issue when trying to use either claude 4 or gemini pro.