Investigating Grok 4.5 degradation
A record of the Cursor incident on July 16, 2026 (UTC): start time, duration and severity, plus current status, what to do, and alternatives.
Other providers down at the same time
5 other incident(s) at different providers overlapped with this one. It may not have been limited to a single service — several providers were degraded at once.
- GitHubDisruption with some GitHub services
- AnthropicEnterprise SSO sign-in failures
- OpenAIElevated Error Rates For SSO Login
- AnthropicElevated errors on Claude Sonnet 5
- AnthropicElevated errors for Claude Opus 4.7
Derived from our own archive of official status pages across 13 providers. Items lasting more than 24 hours and unresolved items are excluded, as they would misrepresent the moment.
How big was this outage?
This outage lasted 156 minutes. Across 43 major incidents recorded for Cursor, the median duration is 80 minutes, making this the 13th longest.
Longer than a typical outage.
Only incidents recorded as major-or-worse and already resolved are counted.
Current status
Cursor is operating normally now. This incident has been resolved.
See current Cursor status →What you can do during an outage
Source: Cursor's official status page.
Other Cursor incidents
- Investigating service outage - Grok models unavailableOctober 23, 2026
- Elevated errors for Bitbucket Cloud integrationsOctober 21, 2026
- Investigating service degradationOctober 21, 2026
- Investigating service degradationOctober 21, 2026
- Investigating service degradation — Grok BotOctober 19, 2026