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Cursor shipped Composer 2 - 86% cheaper than Composer 1.5, frontier-level coding, 200+ tok/s

Composer 2 lands at $0.50/M input and $2.50/M output, an 86% price drop on both axes versus Composer 1.5 ($3.50/$17.50). Benchmarks land near Claude Opus 4.6 on coding, with the speed advantage being the differentiator for agentic loops. Auto mode in Cursor 3 (April) defaults to Composer 2, so your existing Pro plan probably already routes most calls through it. Net effect: fewer reasons to pin Cursor to Sonnet/Opus for cost, more reasons to leave Auto on. Verdict unchanged (still the Pick) but the cost-per-PR math shifted in your favour.

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