Cursor Router: Automatic AI Model Selection with 30–60% Lower Cost — Three Modes: Intelligence, Balance, Cost

What's new

• Cursor Router: intelligent request-level classifier that selects the right model for each coding request
• Three modes: Intelligence (frontier quality, close to Fable 5), Balance (strong everyday output), Cost (maximum savings while preserving capability)
• Measured cost: cost per commit — $4.63 Balance, $6.76 Intelligence vs. $7.34 Opus 4.8, $12.69 Fable 5
• Output satisfaction: Auto Intelligence mode approaches Fable on user satisfaction at ~60% lower cost for teams
• Default-on: Router is enabled by default for Teams plans; Enterprise admins enable it from the dashboard
• Availability: desktop, web, iOS, CLI, and Cursor SDK

Why it matters

For teams, Cursor Router changes the economics of AI-assisted coding — instead of paying frontier model prices for every request, you pay frontier prices only when genuinely needed. It horizontally benchmarks models at the request level, something that was previously a manual process.

How to try it

Cursor Router is on by default for Teams plans. Go to Settings > Models to select preferred mode (Intelligence / Balance / Cost). Enterprise: enable via admin dashboard.