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Composer 2 vs Mixtral 8×7B

Cursor
Composer 2
Mistral
Mixtral 8×7B
Overview
CompanyCursorMistral
Release dateMar 20 2026Dec 8 2023
AccessProprietaryOpen Weight
Benchmarks
Multilingual coding
SWE-Bench Multilingual
73.7%
Agentic coding
CursorBench v3.1
52.2%
Next.js coding
Next.js Evals
75%
Agentic terminal coding
Terminal-Bench 2.0
61.7%
Timeline
Release gapMixtral 8×7B shipped 833 days before Composer 2

Which is better: Composer 2 or Mixtral 8×7B?

Composer 2 and Mixtral 8×7B don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Mixtral 8×7B shipped 833 days before Composer 2, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Composer 2 is proprietary, while Mixtral 8×7B is open weight.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Composer 2 and Mixtral 8×7B don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.

Frequently asked questions

Composer 2 was released by Cursor on Mar 20 2026.

Mixtral 8×7B was released by Mistral on Dec 8 2023.

Composer 2 is a proprietary model released by Cursor. Mixtral 8×7B is an open weight model released by Mistral.

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