Integrations
Get Started with Cursor and Cerebras
Here’s a guide to set up Cursor, a leading AI-powered IDE, with lightning-fast Cerebras inference.
Whether you’re building agents, refactoring legacy code, or exploring new codebases, you can now work at the speed of thought using the latest open models like Qwen3-32B and Qwen3-235B — powered by Cerebras’s wafer-scale inference.
De-select all models in the list.
How to Use Cerebras in Cursor
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Obtain Cerebras API Key
Get a free Cerebras API key here.
2
Install Cursor
Head to Cursor.com to install the AI dev environment.
Follow the steps to download the software on your machine.
Follow the steps to download the software on your machine.3
Open up Cursor settings
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Select the "Models" tab
De-select all models in the list.5
Add a Cerebras model
You can find a list of available models here.
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Setting custom API key
Click “API Keys“ and set the default OpenAI key to your Cerebras key.
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Override the OpenAI base URL
Replace it with https://api.cerebras.ai/v1.
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Confirm Settings
You can now click the “Verify“ button to confirm your API key and URL overrides!
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Try it out!
Now, go select your custom model just like any other!