Major incident

Cursor: Investigating service degradation - xAI models

Sep 29, 2026, 19:43 UTC
started
20:18 UTC
resolved
35 min
duration

Affected: CLI, Cloud Agents, IDE, Grok Bot

Current status of Cursor: Operational — live Cursor status

Timeline

  1. Sep 29, 2026, 19:43 UTC
    investigating
    We are investigating a service degradation affecting xAI models. Some Agent requests may fail.
  2. Sep 29, 2026, 20:01 UTC
    identified
    We have identified the cause of degraded performance affecting xAI models and are working to restore full capacity. Users may see errors, slow responses, or rate limiting on these models, and some Cloud Agent tasks may fail. We will post another update shortly.
  3. Sep 29, 2026, 20:18 UTC
    resolved
    This incident has been resolved.

Updates as published by Cursor (original).

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