[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":630},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-cursor-ai-not-working":3,"related-posts-cursor-ai-not-working":605},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":11,"category":579,"date":580,"description":581,"extension":582,"featured":583,"hideToc":583,"image":584,"imageAlt":585,"imageHeight":586,"imageWidth":587,"itemList":588,"lang":588,"meta":589,"navigation":590,"noindex":583,"path":591,"readingTime":592,"redirected":583,"relatedSlugs":588,"seo":593,"seoTitle":5,"stem":594,"subtitle":588,"tags":595,"updatedDate":580,"__hash__":604},"blog/blog/cursor-ai-not-working.md","Cursor AI Not Working? Model, Credit and Plan Errors Fixed",{"name":7,"role":8,"avatar":9,"bio":10},"Shabnam Katoch","Growth Head","/img/avatars/shabnam-profile.jpeg","Shabnam leads growth at BetterClaw and has spent the past three years building organic distribution for AI-native products. She writes about no-code agent builders, content strategy, and what it actually takes to grow without an ads budget.",{"type":12,"value":13,"toc":559},"minimark",[14,18,21,29,32,38,41,46,49,155,162,165,169,172,175,178,194,202,205,211,215,218,221,262,270,274,277,280,283,286,290,293,296,307,310,315,318,325,329,332,432,438,441,444,452,456,462,465,491,494,498,501,504,519,523,528,531,535,538,542,545,549,552,556],[15,16,17],"p",{},"Most Cursor errors since The X Subscription are billing rules, not bugs. Find your row, apply the fix, and decide whether the plan still fits.",[15,19,20],{},"If Cursor AI is not working since The X Subscription arrived, it is usually the plan, not the editor. Claude and GPT are no longer in the included usage: they bill at API list price from prepaid credit on Premium and above, and Plus covers Grok and Composer only. Legacy plans still work, but leaving one is permanent.",[22,23,26],"callout",{"type":24,"label":25},"quick-fix","Quick fix",[15,27,28],{},"Check where your billing lives: grok.com/dashboard/billing means The X Subscription, cursor.com/dashboard/billing means a legacy plan. On The X Subscription, Claude and GPT need prepaid credit or your own API key. On a legacy plan, think twice before you press Unify.",[15,30,31],{},"Picture this: Monday, 10 AM, a refactor half done. You picked Claude, the agent stops, and a usage notice offers to sell you credits.",[15,33,34],{},[35,36,37],"em",{},"I pay $30 a month. Why is Claude extra?",[15,39,40],{},"Because on The X Subscription it is. We checked Cursor's pricing page, docs, help centre and changelog, plus xAI's X Subscription docs, on 10 November 2026.",[42,43,45],"h2",{"id":44},"cursor-ai-not-working-the-error-to-fix-table","Cursor AI not working? The error-to-fix table",[15,47,48],{},"Rows marked \"reported\" come from users and have no official write-up yet.",[50,51,52,68],"table",{},[53,54,55],"thead",{},[56,57,58,62,65],"tr",{},[59,60,61],"th",{},"What you see",[59,63,64],{},"What it means",[59,66,67],{},"Fix",[69,70,71,83,94,105,116,127,138],"tbody",{},[56,72,73,77,80],{},[74,75,76],"td",{},"A usage notice in the editor offering credits or a Cursor model",[74,78,79],{},"Weekly pool used up, or a Claude or GPT request with no prepaid credit",[74,81,82],{},"Buy credits, switch to Grok or Composer, or wait for the weekly reset",[56,84,85,88,91],{},[74,86,87],{},"Credit left, but requests still stop",[74,89,90],{},"Your monthly additional usage limit is reached",[74,92,93],{},"Raise the limit under Additional usage credits",[56,95,96,99,102],{},[74,97,98],{},"Claude and GPT missing from the picker",[74,100,101],{},"You are on Plus or Free",[74,103,104],{},"Move to Premium or higher, or stay on legacy Pro",[56,106,107,110,113],{},[74,108,109],{},"\"Can't use Claude models as part of usage\" (reported)",[74,111,112],{},"Third-party models are not in the weekly pool",[74,114,115],{},"Prepaid credit, your own Anthropic key, or a legacy plan",[56,117,118,121,124],{},[74,119,120],{},"Default model keeps going back to Grok 4.7 High (reported)",[74,122,123],{},"High is Grok 4.7's default effort; the picker or a subagent picked it",[74,125,126],{},"Re-pick the model per chat, check Auto and subagent settings",[56,128,129,132,135],{},[74,130,131],{},"Pro plan, team or history gone after signing in (reported)",[74,133,134],{},"Signed in to another account, or the accounts were unified",[74,136,137],{},"Sign out, use your old sign-in method, check both billing pages",[56,139,140,143,146],{},[74,141,142],{},"Agent Execution Timed Out",[74,144,145],{},"Not billing: the local extension host never started",[74,147,148,149,154],{},"Restart the extension host (",[150,151,153],"a",{"href":152},"/tools/agent-error-decoder/cursor-agent-execution-timed-out","our decoder entry for this error"," has the full fix)",[15,156,157],{},[158,159],"img",{"alt":160,"src":161},"Cursor AI not working error-to-fix table: seven symptoms, what each means and the fix","/img/blog/cursor-ai-not-working-error-to-fix.jpg",[15,163,164],{},"One check decides most of these rows: which billing page you have. Legacy plans and The X Subscription follow different rules, so a fix written for one can make things worse on the other.",[42,166,168],{"id":167},"the-buy-credits-or-switch-to-grok-notice","The buy credits or switch to Grok notice",[15,170,171],{},"Cursor's help centre says only this about hitting a limit: \"You'll see a notification in the editor.\" We found no page with the notice's exact wording, so we won't quote one.",[15,173,174],{},"On The X Subscription, two documented rules can trigger it. Your weekly pool for Cursor models is used up, or you sent a request to Claude, GPT or Gemini with no prepaid credit. Those models bill at API list price from the first request.",[15,176,177],{},"You have four ways out:",[179,180,181,185,188,191],"ol",{},[182,183,184],"li",{},"Buy credits: on grok.com/dashboard/billing, open the Additional usage credits card and select Buy credits.",[182,186,187],{},"Switch to Grok 4.7, Grok 4.6, Grok 4.5 or Composer 2.5, which draw from your included pool.",[182,189,190],{},"Wait for the weekly reset, shown under Usage at grok.com/dashboard.",[182,192,193],{},"Upgrade: Super gives 15x Plus usage and Ultra 50x, against 4x on Premium.",[15,195,196,197,201],{},"There is a fifth: use Claude outside Cursor on a plan you already pay for. Our guide to ",[150,198,200],{"href":199},"/blog/claude-code-chatgpt-rate-limit-alternatives-2026","Claude Code and ChatGPT limit alternatives"," covers what each plan gives you today.",[15,203,204],{},"Here's the trap. A monthly additional usage limit stops paid usage even when credit remains, and adding credit does not raise it, so if you topped up and are still blocked, raise that limit.",[206,207,208],"blockquote",{},[15,209,210],{},"The pool is shared. Grok Chat, Imagine, Voice, Grok Bot and the Cursor agent all draw from the same weekly allowance, so a busy weekend in the Grok app can leave you short on Monday.",[42,212,214],{"id":213},"cursor-keeps-switching-to-grok-47-high","Cursor keeps switching to Grok 4.7 High",[15,216,217],{},"Users report the default model returning to Grok 4.7 High in some projects, and we found no official fix. The docs do explain where \"High\" comes from: it is Grok 4.7's default effort level (of low, medium, high and xhigh), and Auto used high at launch too.",[15,219,220],{},"Check three things before you blame a bug:",[222,223,224,246,252],"ul",{},[182,225,226,230,231,235,236,239,240,235,243,245],{},[227,228,229],"strong",{},"The picker."," Your selection persists across conversations until you change it, and ",[232,233,234],"code",{},"Ctrl"," + ",[232,237,238],{},"/"," (",[232,241,242],{},"Cmd",[232,244,238],{}," on a Mac) cycles models, which is easy to hit by accident.",[182,247,248,251],{},[227,249,250],{},"Auto."," On individual plans it runs in Cost mode and bills as a Cursor-model request, whichever model serves it.",[182,253,254,257,258,261],{},[227,255,256],{},"Subagents."," Custom ones inherit the parent's model unless their ",[232,259,260],{},"model"," field says otherwise, and built-in ones pick their own.",[15,263,264,265,269],{},"On Plus there is nothing to fix: the plan covers Cursor's own models only, at fixed medium effort. And Grok Bot runs on the same pool, which is why our ",[150,266,268],{"href":267},"/blog/openai-dots-vs-meta-muse-vs-grok-bot","Grok Bot vs Dots vs Muse comparison"," warns that a busy Bot can eat your coding allowance.",[42,271,273],{"id":272},"where-is-my-cursor-pro-account-after-the-account-merge","\"Where is my Cursor Pro account?\" after the account merge",[15,275,276],{},"Users report this after unifying, and xAI's sign-in docs explain the likely causes.",[15,278,279],{},"Cursor and Grok now share an xAI sign-in page, which can show Grok branding even when you started from Cursor. Signing in merges nothing, but a different sign-in method than before can land you in a different, empty account. xAI's advice: sign out and use the method you used for that account before.",[15,281,282],{},"If you pressed Unify and finished checkout, your Cursor Pro subscription was cancelled with a prorated refund. Any extra Cursor accounts you added were combined into the one you chose as primary, and your plan now lives at grok.com/dashboard/billing.",[15,284,285],{},"One gotcha costs real money. If you paid for Cursor through the Apple App Store, switching does not cancel that subscription, so cancel it in your iPhone or iPad settings.",[42,287,289],{"id":288},"cant-use-claude-models-as-part-of-usage","\"Can't use Claude models as part of usage\"",[15,291,292],{},"Users report this line; we found no Cursor page that uses it. The rule behind it is documented: on The X Subscription, third-party models are not included. Cursor lists Claude Opus 5.5 at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output.",[15,294,295],{},"You can still run Claude in Cursor three ways:",[179,297,298,301,304],{},[182,299,300],{},"Prepaid credit with a monthly cap, on Premium and above.",[182,302,303],{},"Your own Anthropic key, pasted under Cursor Settings, then Models. On individual plans those requests bill to your Anthropic account and draw neither the pool nor your credit.",[182,305,306],{},"A legacy Pro, Pro+ or Ultra plan, which still includes the Other Models pool.",[15,308,309],{},"Know the limits of option 2. Plus does not accept your own keys, and Tab completion stays on Cursor's built-in models.",[206,311,312],{},[15,313,314],{},"An editor bundle decides which models are cheap for you. Your own key puts that decision back in your hands.",[15,316,317],{},"The same logic holds outside the editor. Some of what people run through Cursor isn't coding at all: inbox triage, reports, research on a schedule. That work doesn't need an editor, and it shouldn't drain an editor's weekly pool.",[15,319,320,321],{},"That's the job BetterClaw does: managed always-on agents on your own keys across 28+ providers with zero markup, so no tool sells you credits on top. It's not an IDE and has no tab completion, so keep an editor for code. Plans start from $19 a month, and your first workspace starts with a 7-day free trial. ",[150,322,324],{"href":323},"/pricing","See BetterClaw plans",[42,326,328],{"id":327},"legacy-pro-vs-x-premium-should-you-switch","Legacy Pro vs X Premium: should you switch?",[15,330,331],{},"Cursor maps legacy Pro ($20) to Premium ($30). Both include coding usage with Cursor models, but they count it differently.",[50,333,334,349],{},[53,335,336],{},[56,337,338,340,343,346],{},[59,339],{},[59,341,342],{},"Legacy Pro",[59,344,345],{},"X Plus",[59,347,348],{},"X Premium",[69,350,351,365,379,393,406,419],{},[56,352,353,356,359,362],{},[74,354,355],{},"Price",[74,357,358],{},"$20 a month",[74,360,361],{},"$8 a month",[74,363,364],{},"$30 a month",[56,366,367,370,373,376],{},[74,368,369],{},"Cursor models (Grok, Composer)",[74,371,372],{},"Monthly pool",[74,374,375],{},"Weekly pool, base",[74,377,378],{},"Weekly pool, at least 2x legacy Pro",[56,380,381,384,387,390],{},[74,382,383],{},"Claude, GPT, Gemini",[74,385,386],{},"Included in the Other Models pool",[74,388,389],{},"Not available",[74,391,392],{},"API list price from prepaid credit",[56,394,395,398,401,404],{},[74,396,397],{},"Your own API keys",[74,399,400],{},"Yes",[74,402,403],{},"No",[74,405,400],{},[56,407,408,411,414,417],{},[74,409,410],{},"Extra usage",[74,412,413],{},"On-demand, billed monthly after use",[74,415,416],{},"Top-ups",[74,418,416],{},[56,420,421,424,427,430],{},[74,422,423],{},"Billing page",[74,425,426],{},"cursor.com",[74,428,429],{},"grok.com",[74,431,429],{},[15,433,434],{},[158,435],{"alt":436,"src":437},"Cursor plan comparison: legacy Pro at $20 against X Plus at $8 and X Premium at $30 on pools, third-party models, own keys and billing","/img/blog/cursor-ai-not-working-plans.jpg",[15,439,440],{},"Cursor says each paid X plan includes at least twice the Cursor-model usage of the legacy plan it replaces, and drops the included third-party allowance. So it comes down to how much of your day runs on Claude or GPT.",[15,442,443],{},"If you mostly use Grok or Composer, Premium gives you more for $10 more. If you mostly use Claude, legacy Pro is the better deal while you have it, and you can still move to Pro+ without switching.",[15,445,446,447,451],{},"If neither fits, our list of ",[150,448,450],{"href":449},"/blog/cursor-alternatives","Cursor alternatives that still run Claude and GPT"," compares the editors and terminal agents people are moving to.",[42,453,455],{"id":454},"when-cursor-ai-is-not-working-because-of-the-plan-stay-pay-or-move","When Cursor AI is not working because of the plan: stay, pay or move",[15,457,458],{},[158,459],{"alt":460,"src":461},"Decision flow for Cursor AI not working because of the plan: stay on Cursor models, keep legacy, add your own key, buy credits or move","/img/blog/cursor-ai-not-working-decision.jpg",[15,463,464],{},"Answer four questions in order.",[179,466,467,473,479,485],{},[182,468,469,472],{},[227,470,471],{},"Need Claude or GPT every day?"," If not, stay on Grok and Composer.",[182,474,475,478],{},[227,476,477],{},"Still on legacy Pro?"," Keep it. Unify is optional, and you can't come back.",[182,480,481,484],{},[227,482,483],{},"Have an Anthropic or OpenAI key?"," Add it in Cursor Settings, then Models, and cap spend at the provider.",[182,486,487,490],{},[227,488,489],{},"Happy to prepay?"," Set a monthly additional usage limit first, then buy credits.",[15,492,493],{},"Four noes means the tool no longer fits how you work. Terminal agents like Claude Code and Codex run on their own plans and bill nothing through Cursor.",[42,495,497],{"id":496},"the-fix-is-a-decision-not-a-setting","The fix is a decision, not a setting",[15,499,500],{},"Cursor AI didn't break. It changed what your money buys.",[15,502,503],{},"Before The X Subscription, Claude came with Cursor Pro. Now it comes with your credit or your key. You can't change that rule, but you can decide whether the plan still fits the way you work.",[22,505,507,512],{"type":506},"cta",[15,508,509],{},[227,510,511],{},"Want help sorting out your agent costs?",[15,513,514,515],{},"If your team runs AI across an editor, a chat app and a few agents, the bills get hard to read. Our AI automation audit starts with a 30-minute discovery call about how your team works. Within five business days you get a written report with a workflow map, a proposed agent setup, ROI projections and an implementation timeline. ",[150,516,518],{"href":517},"/ai-automation-audit","Book an AI automation audit",[42,520,522],{"id":521},"frequently-asked-questions","Frequently Asked Questions",[524,525,527],"h3",{"id":526},"why-does-cursor-ask-me-to-buy-credits","Why does Cursor ask me to buy credits?",[15,529,530],{},"On The X Subscription, Claude, GPT and other third-party models are not part of your weekly pool, so they bill at API list price from prepaid credit from the first request. You also see a usage notice when the pool for Cursor models runs out. Buy credits under Additional usage credits at grok.com/dashboard/billing, switch to Grok or Composer, or wait for the weekly reset.",[524,532,534],{"id":533},"why-does-cursor-keep-switching-to-grok","Why does Cursor keep switching to Grok?",[15,536,537],{},"\"Grok 4.7 High\" is Grok 4.7 at its default high effort, and Cursor keeps your model choice until you change it. Check the picker in each chat, whether Auto is selected, and your subagent model settings. On Plus, only Grok models and Composer are available, so the editor cannot use Claude at all.",[524,539,541],{"id":540},"where-is-my-cursor-pro-account","Where is my Cursor Pro account?",[15,543,544],{},"You may be signed in to a different account through the shared xAI sign-in page. Sign out and use the sign-in method you used before. If you unified, your Pro plan was cancelled with a prorated refund, and your plan now lives at grok.com/dashboard/billing.",[524,546,548],{"id":547},"can-i-still-use-claude-in-cursor","Can I still use Claude in Cursor?",[15,550,551],{},"Yes, on Premium and above, legacy Pro, Pro+ and Ultra, or with your own Anthropic key. On Premium and above it bills at API list price from prepaid credit, while an Anthropic key added in Cursor Settings, then Models, bills to your Anthropic account. Plus and Free do not include Claude and do not accept your own keys.",[524,553,555],{"id":554},"can-i-keep-my-cursor-legacy-plan","Can I keep my Cursor legacy plan?",[15,557,558],{},"Yes. Legacy plans keep working as they are, and you can still move between them, for example from Pro to Pro+. Switching to The X Subscription is optional but permanent, and Support cannot undo it.",{"title":560,"searchDepth":561,"depth":561,"links":562},"",2,[563,564,565,566,567,568,569,570,571],{"id":44,"depth":561,"text":45},{"id":167,"depth":561,"text":168},{"id":213,"depth":561,"text":214},{"id":272,"depth":561,"text":273},{"id":288,"depth":561,"text":289},{"id":327,"depth":561,"text":328},{"id":454,"depth":561,"text":455},{"id":496,"depth":561,"text":497},{"id":521,"depth":561,"text":522,"children":572},[573,575,576,577,578],{"id":526,"depth":574,"text":527},3,{"id":533,"depth":574,"text":534},{"id":540,"depth":574,"text":541},{"id":547,"depth":574,"text":548},{"id":554,"depth":574,"text":555},"Troubleshooting","2026-11-11","Cursor AI not working since The X Subscription? Fixes for the credits notice, the editor switching to Grok, a missing Pro plan and Claude access.","md",false,"/img/blog/cursor-ai-not-working.jpg","Cursor AI not working cover: an editor usage notice with Buy credits and Use a Cursor model options, next to a plan check card",512,1024,null,{},true,"/blog/cursor-ai-not-working","8 min read",{"title":5,"description":581},"blog/cursor-ai-not-working",[596,597,598,599,600,601,602,603],"cursor ai not working","cursor buy credits","cursor switching to grok","cursor legacy plan","cursor x subscription","cursor claude not available","cursor pro account missing","cursor own api key","WJiEQFQJVPjlgvtm30N4yiGZQhiXEdwBZbXbXpiqa-g",[606,613,622],{"stem":607,"title":608,"description":609,"date":610,"image":611,"category":579,"redirected":583,"author":612,"readingTime":592},"blog/openclaw-fallback-model-not-working","OpenClaw Fallback Model Not Working After 2026.10.10: Why","OpenClaw fallback model not working after 2026.10.10? Scheduled jobs now stay on one provider by design. What still works, the config and 3 workarounds.","2026-11-10","/img/blog/openclaw-fallback-model-not-working.jpg",{"name":7,"role":8,"avatar":9,"bio":10},{"stem":614,"title":615,"description":616,"date":617,"image":618,"category":579,"redirected":583,"author":619,"readingTime":621},"blog/claude-cowork-missing-hcs-services-windows-fix","Claude Cowork „Missing HCS Services (hns, vmcompute, vfpext)\" beheben (2026)","Claude Cowork unter Windows reparieren: Windows-Update-Bug vom September 2026, „missing HCS services: hns, vmcompute, vfpext\", ausgegrauter Tab, Ladefehler.","2026-10-29","/img/blog/claude-cowork-missing-hcs-services-de.jpg",{"name":7,"role":8,"avatar":9,"url":620,"bio":10},"https://www.betterclaw.io/about","14 Min. Lesezeit",{"stem":623,"title":624,"description":625,"date":626,"image":627,"category":579,"redirected":583,"author":628,"readingTime":629},"blog/hermes-cron-not-working","Hermes Cron Job Not Working? Every Cause and the Fix","Hermes cron job not running, timing out or delivering nothing? Check the gateway, schedule, delivery target and timeouts. Every cause and the fix.","2026-10-28","/img/blog/hermes-cron-not-working.jpg",{"name":7,"role":8,"avatar":9,"bio":10},"11 min read",1794489115170]