Cursor's New Coding AI Matches Claude at 10x Cheaper

Brock Mesarich | AI for Non Techies · Intermediate ·🧠 Large Language Models ·1mo ago

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Compares the pricing and capabilities of Cursor's Composer 2.5 with Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5

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Cursor just dropped a new coding model that matches the best in the world at a fraction of the price. It's called Composer 2.5. Here is why people are switching. Composer 2.5 hits 79.8% on SWE-Bench Multilingual, same level as Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT 5.5. But the price is the real story. Composer runs about 10 times cheaper than Opus 4.7 on input and 30 times cheaper on output. If you code with AI all day, this is the kind of release that changes how you work. Comment cursor and I'll send you the link.

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Cursor just shipped Composer 2.5, a new coding model that matches Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 on the hardest benchmarks at a fraction of the price. It hits 79.8 percent on SWE-Bench Multilingual. Composer is about 10 times cheaper than Opus 4.7 on input and 30 times cheaper on output. A coding session that costs $30 on Opus now costs $2 on Composer.
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