# Exclude certain models from Cursor Auto Router

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/exclude-certain-models-from-cursor-auto-router/168979>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Tags:** auto-mode\
**Created:** [August 20, 2026, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/exclude-certain-models-from-cursor-auto-router/168979 "2026-08-20T15:50:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Omar\_Shoura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Omar\_Shoura](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Omar_Shoura)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/exclude-certain-models-from-cursor-auto-router/168979/1 "2026-08-20T15:50:16Z")

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### Feature request for product/service

AI Models

### Describe the request

I would like to exclude certain models from auto router for my team (or at least individually). I really enjoy using Cursor Auto Router, and I think it does a great job. However, some models are simply too expensive and eat up too much of my quota. I would like to disable some of these really expensive models, but only for router such as Opus 5 or GPT 5.6 Sol. I may still choose to use them independently, which is why I don’t wanna disable it for the whole workspace, but I don’t want Cursor Auto Router to pick those models.

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/colin/32/90452_2.png) [@Colin](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/exclude-certain-models-from-cursor-auto-router/168979/5 "2026-08-20T18:16:45Z")

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Hi @Omar_Shoura!

Which “Auto” mode are you using? I’d be surprised if Cost ~~or Balanced~~ selected Opus 5 or 5.6 Sol.

If you’re optimizing for intelligence, though, that mode is specifically designed to select frontier models.

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**Author:** ![Omar\_Shoura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Omar\_Shoura](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Omar_Shoura)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/exclude-certain-models-from-cursor-auto-router/168979/7 "2026-08-20T20:30:47Z")

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I’m always on balance and it very consistently picks Opus 5 for hard problems. I agree, it would be what I want for intelligence, but not for balance, at the very least not so regularly.

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/colin/32/90452_2.png) [@Colin](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2026, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/exclude-certain-models-from-cursor-auto-router/168979/11 "2026-08-21T13:06:01Z")

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Thanks @Omar_Shoura!

I’m curious, in this case, why you don’t keep Grok 4.6 selected rather than use Auto, if you never want tasks routed to Opus or Sol?

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**Author:** ![Omar\_Shoura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Omar\_Shoura](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Omar_Shoura)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2026, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/exclude-certain-models-from-cursor-auto-router/168979/12 "2026-08-21T13:25:22Z")

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> [@Colin](#):
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> I’m curious, in this case, why you don’t keep Grok 4.6 selected rather than use Auto, if you never want tasks routed to Opus or Sol?

I might do that in the interim, but it’s not that I want no intelligent models. It’s just Opus 5 specifically is way too expensive. I don’t mind when it occasionally picks Opus 4.8 or Sol, but it just leans in too hard into it