Composer 2 vs Kimi K2
Cursor Composer 2 | Moonshot AI Kimi K2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Cursor | Moonshot AI |
| Release date | Mar 20 2026 | Jul 11 2025 |
| Access | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | 1T |
Context window | — | 128k |
| Benchmarks | ||
Nonsense detection BullshitBench v2Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | — | 10% |
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | — | 65.8% |
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% | — |
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. | 75% | — |
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% | — |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | — | 75.1% |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Kimi K2 shipped 252 days before Composer 2 | |
Which is better: Composer 2 or Kimi K2?
Composer 2 and Kimi K2 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Kimi K2 shipped 252 days before Composer 2, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Composer 2 is proprietary, while Kimi K2 is open weight.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Composer 2 and Kimi K2 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
Composer 2 was released by Cursor on Mar 20 2026.
Kimi K2 was released by Moonshot AI on Jul 11 2025.
Composer 2 is a proprietary model released by Cursor. Kimi K2 is an open weight model released by Moonshot AI.