Cursor Composer 2 vs DeepSeek DeepSeek V2.5 (Revised) — side-by-side specs.
Cursor Composer 2 | DeepSeek DeepSeek V2.5 (Revised) | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Cursor | DeepSeek |
| Release date | Mar 20 2026 | Dec 2024 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | No | Yes |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | — |
Context window | — | — |
| 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. | 73.7% | — |
Agentic coding CursorBench v3.1Cursor's own test of harder, real-world coding tasks inside a code editor. Higher is better. | 52.2% | — |
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. | 61.7% | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | DeepSeek V2.5 (Revised) shipped 474 days before Composer 2 | |
Composer 2 and DeepSeek V2.5 (Revised) don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. DeepSeek V2.5 (Revised) shipped 474 days before Composer 2, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
DeepSeek V2.5 (Revised) is an open-source / open-weight model; Composer 2 is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Composer 2 and DeepSeek V2.5 (Revised) don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.