Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Background Agent (GitHub, Slack, Web, Linear) Describe the Bug I am tier 3 at GCP. Currently trying to use gemini-3-pro-preview and I’m getting the error below in spite of using gemini-3-pro-preview outside cursor. Gemini-3-pro-preview works and my rate-…

Thanks @RafalP ! For some reason, some of our logs that would typically show more logs are redacted. This is unrelated to Privacy Mode settings. It’s still clear that the provider is returning a 429. It would be great if someone else facing the issue could provide a Request ID as well (and if those…

Hi Colin, The 429 errors for Tier 3 Gemini happen only in Cursor. My production system work correctly using Gemini models without experiencing any issues related to hitting quotas for all Gemini models. Also Google’s dashboard show extensive available capacity for more API calls and the quotas are…

I can confirm that Cursor hits https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/openai/ in all cases where we see 429s returned (which is a funny way to phrase it, as that is the only URL we are hitting—we see lots of successful requests as well!).

Yes, the model starts returning a response and in the middle of it breaks with 429. Retries may immediately break with 429 or exhibit the same behavior, output a few tokens and then interrupt. The fact the error returns OpenAI is also weird since the selected model is Gemini but probably that’s mor…

Some news or estimated date to resolve this. @Colin Today already have the same problem i have a level 3 api key, it is a 0.04% of use and cursor keep saying ”User API Key Rate limit exceeded”. I’m not even close to the limit.

Hey @Bumpymaze Have a Request ID? [image] Colin: If you think there’s no way you’re bumping against a limit, I’d be happy to look at a recent Request ID and pass along the exact error message from the 429 we receive from Google’s APIs, which makes it clearer why this was returned.

I’m still having this problem, but less so than in the previous month. Except that with the new cursor update i don’t get a “Try again” button and i don’t get an error ID, i only see “User API Key Rate limit exceeded” alert

You’ve taken away the retry button. Great engineering! You’ve shown you can recognize 429 which is quite an achievement. What about fixing the real problem instead.

This doesn’t make any sense. I’m paying $60 for a product that doesn’t function properly. It’s ridiculous. If you’re going to offer this product, please remove the “Gemini” name from the homepage. You are not actually providing that model, or it only works half the time. [Screenshot 2026-02-05 at …

Gemini API key doesn't work with the latest Cursor version

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Bumpymaze (Bumpymaze) February 3, 2026, 4:19pm 75

@Colin I’d love to do it, but since the last Cursor update, it’s no longer possible. We only receive this message as a result.

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Gemini API key doesn't work with the latest Cursor version

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