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Composer 2.5 vs Mistral Medium

Cursor
Composer 2.5
Mistral
Mistral Medium
Overview
CompanyCursorMistral
Release dateMay 18 2026Dec 2023
AccessProprietaryProprietary
Benchmarks
Multilingual coding
SWE-Bench Multilingual
79.8%
Agentic coding
CursorBench v3.1
63.2%
Next.js coding
Next.js Evals
92%
Agentic terminal coding
Terminal-Bench 2.0
69.3%
Timeline
Release gapMistral Medium shipped 899 days before Composer 2.5

Which is better: Composer 2.5 or Mistral Medium?

Composer 2.5 and Mistral Medium don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Mistral Medium shipped 899 days before Composer 2.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Published specifications for these two models are limited — see each model page for the latest details.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Composer 2.5 and Mistral Medium don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.

Frequently asked questions

Composer 2.5 was released by Cursor on May 18 2026.

Mistral Medium was released by Mistral on Dec 2023.

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