Is Cursor down? October 19 Opus 5.5 errors resolved after 28 minutes
Cursor reported elevated errors for Anthropic Opus 5.5 on October 19, 2026. Its status timeline runs from 13:24 to 13:52 UTC, when the incident was resolved. Affected components were the CLI, Cloud Agents, cursor.com and the IDE.
SessionWatcher editorial · Published · Updated · Source announcement: 2026-10-19
What happened
On October 19, 2026, Cursor's status page reported elevated errors for Anthropic Opus 5.5. The incident affected the CLI, Cloud Agents, cursor.com and the IDE.
Cursor posted that it was investigating at 13:24 UTC. At 13:35 UTC it said a fix had been implemented and it was monitoring for service restoration. It marked the incident resolved at 13:52 UTC, 28 minutes after the first update.
Sources: Investigating service degradation
Usage and billing
Cursor's status page names only Opus 5.5 in this incident. It does not mention any effect on usage, limits or billing, such as whether failed requests counted toward plan usage or will be refunded.
Sources: Investigating service degradation
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