Blog · Changelog Today, we’re launching Cursor Router, our intelligent model router. Not every request needs frontier-level intelligence. Cursor Router classifies each request by task type and complexity, then sends it to the most effective model for the job. Frontier models handle the work that …

Congratulations on the launch. The engineering quality is clearly high, and a whitepaper detailing the router observations, how it was designed and why would be a fascinating read. My primary concern is the rollout communication. Cursor’s “Auto”, to me, used to mean “cheap flat rate, don’t worry w…

I have a feature request to be able to set Intelligence / Balanced / Cost as a default for Cloud Agents - thanks! [image] Allow default cloud agent model to use Cursor Router (Auto - Intelligence / Balanced / Cost) Feature Requests Feature request for product/…

I have a question regarding prompt caching behavior when using Cursor Router in Auto mode: During multi-turn agent sessions where context (system prompts, tool definitions, attached files) remains largely the same across turns, does the router attempt sticky routing to keep turns on the same model/p…

Hey @daipl ! Good question. In our testing, even accounting for cache misses due to provider changes during a conversation, we still observed significant savings for users who choose Auto.

[image] Colin: allow or block underlying models I see no options in the UI to do this. Basically there are 3 toggles for allowing cost, balance and intelligence and whether they get to see which model is used?

Don’t see this on latest update in the IDE?

@AndrewC Cursor Router is currently not available on individual plans! [image] Colin: Cursor Router works across desktop, web, iOS, CLI, and the SDK, and is available today on Teams and Enterprise plans. It’s on by default for Teams, and Enterprise admins can enable it from the dashboard.

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Colin (Colin) July 24, 2026, 8:53am 12

@DanTee This comes with Model Access Control, which is available on the Enterprise plan.

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Introducing Cursor Router

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