Opus use to charge twice when the context window went over 200k, cursor was great by letting us restrict it so it doesn’t go over. But now Claude does not charge extra for high context usage anymore, but cursor still has the non-max opus context window at 200k. while chatGPT gets a non-max context …

If you’re on the most recent update of Cursor, you can click on the model selection dropdown, hover over the model you want to use, click the Edit button that appears on the right, and then you have options to configure the context, effort, and toggle thinking. [image] This behavior is new and no…

Is this officially stated anywhere? I cant find where this is announced @Colin

Hey @zebra We’ve updated the docs , but no further announcements planned! On current individual plans, Max Mode is billed at the model’s API rate. On legacy request-based plans, Max Mode adds a 20% surcharge.

@Colin That clarification honestly makes this feel worse for legacy users, not better. So current individual token-based plans get Max Mode billed at the model’s API rate with no markup, but legacy request-based plans still get hit with a 20% surcharge? That feels like early users are being punish…

Opus 4.7 context window (increase non-max above 200k)

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Colin (Colin) April 23, 2026, 5:14pm 5

Hey there @zebra !

Good news – for users on individual token-based plans, there is no longer a 20% markup for using Max Mode.

Hope this helps!

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