Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What this means for coding-agent buyers On 18 May 2026, Cursor shipped Composer 2.5 — the second iteration of its in-house coding model — and the colour of the conversation around coding agents changed overnight. The headline is not just another benchmark win. It is the price tag. Frontier-class quality at a tenth of the price — Composer 2.5 sits inside a percentage point of Opus 4.7 on SWE-Bench Multilingual and edges out GPT-5.5 on CursorBench v3.1 default-effort. Standard-tier input at $0.50 per million tokens — that is 10× cheaper per token than Opus 4.7 list pricing. For high-volume batch and background-agent work, the unit economics no longer look like a frontier model. Independent indices placed Cursor near the top of the coding-agent table at launch — with a cost-per-task curve…
