Slow Requests taking at least 5 Minutes

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I’m a Cursor Pro subscriber and used up my Fast Requests on the first day of my subscription. After that, my Slow Requests took around 10–30 seconds. However, for the past four days, each response has taken at least five minutes, while a friend of mine, also using Slow Requests, gets responses in about 15 seconds.

Even after clearing all my chats and composers, reinstalling Cursor, trying it on another machine, and creating a new project with a simple request like “Create an HTML file where every heading is red,” the issue persists.

Is this a bug, or are there any known fixes for this problem?

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Based on your high usage of slow requests, the system is applying longer wait times - this is actually expected behavior. The wait times increase proportionally with how many slow requests you’ve used, which explains why your friend (who probably hasn’t used as many) is seeing faster responses

You can check out more details about how this works here: Cursor – Usage

The best way to get back to faster responses would be to wait for your fast requests to reset at the start of your next billing cycle, or enable usage-based pricing if you need consistent fast responses