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

zebra
Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:12:51 +0000
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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 window of 272k, which doesn’t seem fair (cursor charges their own extra fee when max mode is on).

Also Claude updated how they tokenize context so now it uses more tokens for the same prompt. Every time I would fix something with opus it would use 170k tokens, then I clear the context for the next fix. Now each fix uses 210k tokens which means I always have to have max mode turned on, because the context is restricted so much more then chatGPT is for no reason now. So now I’m paying the unfairly paying the extra cursor max fee. please increase the standard opus context length to match chatGPT

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