I’d like to use my own custom API, as a lot of models are finetuned to a specific usecase, but I want to use cursor subscription based models too, and switching them right now is quite troublesome because I need to go to settings and turnoff openApiKey on and off. Perhaps if there is an extra option…

the only quick fix i can offer you is installing a VS Code extension which lets you use a local LLM Cody allows that, though completions are crappy, Cursor Ai has much better completions, so you can use that. The performance of Cursor with the big models like sonnet Opus is also much better on Cur…

Nah, it’s not about just completions. I want the model to be available through chat and cmd + k. I’m thinking about somehow intercepting the api call, checking the models, and reroute (change the request address) of that call. But it’s a very hacky way… So currently I just toggle the custom openai a…

I’m wondering if this can help somehow: [image] Open sourcing Cursor Analytics Showcase Hi everyone, I just finished Cursor Analytics, an app running locally to: Log all API requests in Cursor Give high-level analytics Making it possible to choose “any” LLM model If you…

Almost. it is very similar to liteLLM. Right now I’m using it (liteLLM) to even customize the cursor prompt (I tried changing the prompt from intelligent programmer to experienced story writer and changing code to story) to make cursor an IDE for story writing. Alas, it’s still need the “custom open…

You can use this shortcut. [image] But I agree that the model selection could be improved.

with the Cody way its ALT+L for chat and ALT+K for what you would get with CTRL+K but its not as intuitive that way you dont even have to toggle the API, but again the quality suffers, so im not using it unless wanna test the local model which is powered by Ollama. The other way i can think of rig…

It’s 2026, and nothing has changed.

Use custom API alongside cursor subscribed api

Ideas Feature Requests

fun_strange September 6, 2024, 8:13am 4

I’m wondering if this can help somehow:

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Use custom API alongside cursor subscribed api

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