HI, I am on the legacy plan consisting of 500 requests per month. On a personal account, not enterprise. For most models now it is showing “Max Mode Required” e.g. “The model “claude-opus-4-8-thinking-medium” requires Max Mode to be enabled. Please enable Max Mode and try again.” This was working …

Same here. It seems like you need the max plan for any Claude model. so sad

There was no prior notification before the change from unlimited requests to 500 requests, and now it’s been quietly changed again. The Cursor team should have basic respect for users.

max mode is so unnecessary, they forced this on team/enterprise months ago, its just a way for them to drain more tokens, I pay for pricing outside of the plan and max mode literally has zero difference in out come but you pay 50x more

Let’s continue the conversation over here! [image] Legacy Individual Plan - Max Mode Required Discussions Hey all, Since the release of GPT-5.4 in March, new frontier models have required Max Mode for users on legacy request-based pricing. A bug meant this w…

Legacy plan model changes

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Colin (Colin) July 7, 2026, 3:55am 9

Let’s continue the conversation over here!

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Legacy plan model changes

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