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Coding agents & IDEsUse UltraGPT models in Cursor chat through the OpenAI base-URL override.
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Setup
- 1Open Cursor Settings → Models → API Keys.
- 2Enter your UltraGPT key in OpenAI API Key, turn on Override OpenAI Base URL and set it to
https://api.ultragpt.pro/v1. Click Verify. - 3Under Models, click Add model, type
claude-opus-4.8and enable it. Turn off the built-in models you will not use, so Cursor does not send them to UltraGPT.
OpenAI API Key
<your UltraGPT key>Override Base URL
https://api.ultragpt.pro/v1Custom model
claude-opus-4.8Good to know
- Custom keys need a paid Cursor plan (Pro or higher).
- The base-URL override is global: while it is on, Cursor's own built-in models may stop working. Turn it off to go back.
- Only chat uses your key reliably; Tab completion, inline edit and some agent features always run on Cursor's own backend.
Tips
- Any model id from Models works; suffixes like :online (web search) and :nitro work too.
- Give each tool its own key with a spend limit, so usage shows separately in Activity.
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