Gpt-5 is not currently enable in the slow pool

[ifmelate]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Gpt-5 is not currently enable in the slow pool. Please select another model, or enable usage-based pricing to get more fast requests

Steps to Reproduce

Working on the project whole Saturday then started to get this error. I’m already on-demand with enabled usage-baged pricing. Why it requires to enable this? It’s already tradition for Cursor deploy bugs on Saturdays around billing or models…

Expected Behavior

It should works for user on enabledusage-based pricing but it’s not

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

1.6.14

For AI issues: which model did you use?

Gpt-5-high

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

[ifmelate]

okay, so cursor just randomly made billing invoice for usage-based at the middle of the month and i missed it in the inbox email. It’s not good that i’m not seeing this on UI in IDE/Web to bring to my attention.

[sanjeed5 (Sanjeed)]

Thanks for the report. Glad that your issue got resolved, will pass on the feedback to the team.