Composer 2.5 vs Mistral Small
Cursor Composer 2.5 | Mistral Mistral Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Cursor | Mistral |
| Release date | May 18 2026 | Feb 26 2024 |
| Access | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Benchmarks | ||
Multilingual coding SWE-Bench MultilingualLike SWE-Bench, but the coding problems span many programming languages, not just one. Tests how broadly the AI can code. Higher is better. | 79.8% | — |
Agentic coding CursorBench v3.1Cursor's own test of harder, real-world coding tasks inside a code editor. Higher is better. | 63.2% | — |
Next.js coding Next.js EvalsVercel's open eval of how well AI coding agents build and migrate real Next.js apps — measured as the share of tasks the agent completes successfully. Higher is better. | 92% | — |
Agentic terminal coding Terminal-Bench 2.0Can the AI work in a command-line terminal — running commands and finishing technical setup tasks the way a developer would? (Version 2.0 of the test.) Higher is better. | 69.3% | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Mistral Small shipped 812 days before Composer 2.5 | |
Which is better: Composer 2.5 or Mistral Small?
Composer 2.5 and Mistral Small don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Mistral Small shipped 812 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 Small 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 Small was released by Mistral on Feb 26 2024.
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