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Composer 2.5 vs Ministral 8B

Cursor Composer 2.5 vs Mistral Ministral 8B — side-by-side specs.

Cursor
Composer 2.5
Mistral
Ministral 8B
Overview
CompanyCursorMistral
Release dateMay 18 2026Oct 2024
Model type
Open sourceNoYes
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapMinistral 8B shipped 594 days before Composer 2.5

Which is better: Composer 2.5 or Ministral 8B?

Composer 2.5 and Ministral 8B do not have directly comparable benchmark scores published on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU. Ministral 8B shipped 594 days before Composer 2.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Ministral 8B is an open-source / open-weight model; Composer 2.5 is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.

Frequently asked questions

When was Composer 2.5 released?
Composer 2.5 was released by Cursor on May 18 2026.
When was Ministral 8B released?
Ministral 8B was released by Mistral on Oct 2024.
Is Composer 2.5 or Ministral 8B open source?
Ministral 8B is an open-source / open-weight model released by Mistral. Composer 2.5 is a proprietary model released by Cursor.

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