Starting March 16th, all Team and Enterprise accounts still on legacy request-based pricing need to enable Max Mode to access frontier models, including GPT 5.3 Codex, GPT 5.4, Opus 4.5/4.6, and Sonnet 4.5/4.6. All other models remain unaffected. This change does not apply to individual plans or ac…

Sure, let’s go spend even more money on model providers to compensate for what was done here; why didn’t I think of that!

if you want to pay outrages prices keep using cursor as is.

Actually i just switched to another provider that’s the point I’m trying to get across. This is not how I expect my provider to do business, I’m out

This is the tipping pint. We are out

I’m frustrated by the new requirement to use Max Mode for frontier models on legacy Team and Enterprise request-based plans. It feels like a forced pricing and workflow change that takes away user control and makes Cursor harder to use with confidence. Please communicate these changes more clearl…

And you persist that it will never be possible to use custom self-hosted models or OAuth subscriptions directly with Cursor? Right now we are using different providers and paying 200$ per month, but this has raised code quality and speed significantly, and we save about 2500$ per month. So, right …

Feature Request: Max Mode transparency & control in CLI --print mode As a CLI-heavy user (using cursor -p for automation), I have three concerns regarding the recent frontier model changes: No way to know which models are forced into Max Mode Currently, there’s no CLI command or API to query whi…

My cursor version: ``` Version: 3.9.16 VS Code Extension API: 1.105.1 Commit: 042b3c1a4c53f2c3808067f519fbfc67b72cad80 Date: 2026-06-27T06:41:01.941Z Layout: editor Build Type: Stable Release Track: Default Electron: 40.10.3 Chromium: 144.0.7559.236 Node.js: 24.15.0 V8: 14.4.258.32-elect…

I have a private plan, but also get this occasionally, now I seem to get this all the time. Was there a change in this for personal plans?

Same here, 4 hours ago everything was okay, but now almost every model requires MAX mode.

[Megathread] Frontier Models Moving to Max Mode for Legacy Team/Enterprise Plans

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[Megathread] Frontier Models Moving to Max Mode for Legacy Team/Enterprise Plans

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