Cursor on Thursday released Composer 2, the third generation of its in-house coding model. The model outperforms Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 on some key coding benchmarks, but does so at a fraction of the cost.
The new Cursor model costs as little as $0.5 per million input tokens and $2.5 per million output tokens. There is also a fast mode, which will be the default option, but it costs 3x as much, at $1.5/$7.5 per million input/output tokens. This fast mode offers the same intelligence, just at a higher price.
In comparison, Opus 4.6…
