Cursor Composer
Cursor's in-house coding model, built for cheap long-running agents
Overview
Composer is the family of coding models Cursor trains itself, first released in October 2025; the current version, Composer 2.5, is built on Moonshot's Kimi K2.5 and priced at $0.50 per million input tokens. It runs only inside Cursor, whose maker Anysphere was acquired by SpaceX in August 2026, and is sold through Cursor plans and, since October 2026, The X Subscription.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 14 Oct 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- Limited agent requests
- Limited Chat requests
- Shared AI usage pool across Cursor and Grok
- Cursor agent
- Grok API access
- Cloud agents and automations
- Code hosting and AI code reviews (Bugbot)
- Third-party models at API list price
- Everything in Premium
- Priority model access at peak times
- Everything in Super
- Earliest access to products and models
- Centralised billing and SAML/OIDC SSO
- Team marketplace for rules, skills and plugins
- Enterprise: SCIM, audit logs, invoicing, pooled usage
Use cases
What you can produce with Cursor Composer
- Agentic coding inside Cursor with the Composer 2.5 model
- Composer 2.5 at $0.50 per million input and $2.50 per million output tokens
- A Fast variant for tight interactive edit-and-test loops
- Long-running agent tasks across files, terminal commands and tools
- Composer use from Cursor desktop, web, CLI and mobile
- Custom agents built on Composer through the Cursor SDK
Composer 2.5 is the cheap workhorse inside Cursor: on Cursor's own benchmarks it lands just behind Claude Opus 4.7 at a fraction of the token price, which makes long agent runs affordable. Those figures are vendor-published, and the model only works inside Cursor.
The bigger questions are around it. Cursor now belongs to SpaceX, sells new plans as The X Subscription bundled with Grok and X Premium, and is pushing its larger Grok models alongside Composer. Worth using as a default for routine agent work; review every diff, and check what your plan actually includes before committing a team.
What we found
Composer is Cursor's own family of coding models, not to be confused with the multi-file editing mode that carried the same name in older versions of the editor. Cursor released the first Composer on 29 October 2025 alongside Cursor 2.0, describing it as a mixture-of-experts model trained with reinforcement learning inside real codebases and built for speed. Composer 2 followed in March 2026 and Composer 2.5 in May. Both later versions start from Moonshot's open Kimi K2.5 checkpoint, which Cursor states openly, with most of the compute going into its own training.
The selling point is price. Composer 2.5 costs $0.50 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output, with a faster variant at $3 and $15. On Cursor's own benchmark table it sits just behind Claude Opus 4.7 on Terminal-Bench 2.0, SWE-Bench Multilingual and CursorBench; those are vendor numbers, and the rival scores are self-reported. It is available only inside Cursor: desktop, web, CLI, mobile and the SDK.
The company around it has changed. Cursor's maker Anysphere announced a model-training partnership with SpaceXAI in April 2026, and on 14 August 2026 said it had been acquired by SpaceX. Since July Cursor has also shipped the larger Grok 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 models with SpaceXAI, and says Composer remains the smaller, cheaper class it will keep releasing.
Pricing changed on 12 October 2026. New customers now buy The X Subscription, which bundles Cursor with Grok and X Premium: free, then $8, $30, $100 and $200 a month, with team seats at the same prices. The $8 Plus tier is limited to Grok models, and the pages read do not say whether Composer counts. Existing Cursor plans can be kept.
Treat agent output as a draft. Cursor itself apologised in July 2025 for a pricing change it had not explained clearly, a useful reminder to watch the usage meter as closely as the diff, especially on a plan that has just changed.
Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.
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