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Cursor's Composer 2.5 matches Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 benchmarks at a fraction of the cost

May 18, 2026The Decoder

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Cursor ships Composer 2.5, an AI coding model built on Kimi K2.5 and trained on 25x more synthetic tasks than its predecessor. It matches Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 on benchmarks at a fraction of the price. The article Cursor's Composer 2.5 matches Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 benchmarks at a fraction of the cost

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