You've hit your free requests limit

Bug Reports
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Describe the Bug

You’ve hit your free requests limit

Steps to Reproduce

I’m getting the “Upgrade to Pro for more usage, frontier models, Background Agents, and more” from first request and can’t find a way to work around it.

I have gpt-4-mini in the model list and using Agent.

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.2.4
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: a8e95743c5268be73767c46944a71f4465d05c90
Date: 2025-07-10T16:53:59.659Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.5.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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hi @mihai and welcome to Cursor Forum.

Thank you for your bug report.

Which account type do you have now? (Free, Pro Trial, Pro,…?)

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I’m on Free. Issue started over the last couple weeks.

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Could you check if there is any large file attached to the request?
Or otherwise MCPs configured?

Could you post a Request ID with privacy disabled so we can look into the details? Cursor – Getting a Request ID

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78397311-a621-4b15-b2ec-81b641b1c8c2

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Can it be that you have used up your monthly quota?

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I really can’t tell because the Cursor dashboard doesn’t show quota usages anymore. Where could I find if I used my allowance?

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Sent you a DM

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Can you help me with the same problem, cursor showing you’ve hit your free requests limit

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Hey, I am also getting the same problem, “You’ve hit your free requests limit”. I am on a free plan.

Here is my request ID: 4319bf29-1cdc-4789-b1dd-f76c8fe51254

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hi @art3mis @musa if you hit the request limit on free plan and you have used up your free plan quota, you can upgrade to a Pro plan using Dashboard > Pro “Upgrade to Pro”

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isn’t there any alternative to use free one.

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How do we know that we reached our limit in free tier and how many request are there for the free plan? I think there are unlimited slow request are there for free users?

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The limit reached message is shown in the app when you reach the limit. We do not publish the usage limit for free plan but will consider it.

Cursor does not use anymore the slow request queue, also we do not count requests but actual token usage and models.

Here is more info on token usage and how to optimize your usage:

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Why was the slow request queue removed?
Does this mean there are now limitations on using the AI agent, like chatting or interacting with code?

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We removed the slow queue as we switched to token based cost calculation instead of requests to better reflect the actual consumption.

Yes there is an limitation of how much consumption is included in Free account.

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So there are limitations, but you won’t tell us directly what they are and we have to write you to know them? Are they resetting every month or other period? Or I can use Cursor for free only once in a life and then I have to change to pro or other plans? It would be much easier if you made some FAQ cause acording to people’s questions here, people doesn’t understand how does this work

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The Free plan allows for a usage of Cursor including limited agent requests and tab completions.

The usage limits do reset monthly.

Kindly note that we currently can not disclose the precise limits.

I understand an FAQ would help, will pass the feedback to the team!

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Could you help me with the same issue @condor ? I hit my usage limit on my free account, but I just upgraded to the 1 year premium version for students and I’m still getting the same message on my cursor chat. Even though my premium plan shows as active on my account

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hi @cesarmonagas15 sent you a DM.