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Composer 2.5 vs Mistral Small 4

Cursor Composer 2.5 vs Mistral Mistral Small 4 — side-by-side specs.

Cursor
Composer 2.5
Mistral
Mistral Small 4
Overview
CompanyCursorMistral
Release dateMay 18 2026Mar 16 2026
Model type
Open sourceNoNo
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Multilingual coding
SWE-Bench Multilingual
79.8%
Agentic coding
CursorBench v3.1
63.2%
Agentic terminal coding
Terminal-Bench 2.0
69.3%
Timeline
Release gapMistral Small 4 shipped 63 days before Composer 2.5

Which is better: Composer 2.5 or Mistral Small 4?

Composer 2.5 and Mistral Small 4 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Mistral Small 4 shipped 63 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 4 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.

Frequently asked questions

When was Composer 2.5 released?
Composer 2.5 was released by Cursor on May 18 2026.
When was Mistral Small 4 released?
Mistral Small 4 was released by Mistral on Mar 16 2026.

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