Cursor Composer 2 vs OpenAI GPT-5-Codex — side-by-side specs.
Cursor Composer 2 | OpenAI GPT-5-Codex | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Cursor | OpenAI |
| Release date | Mar 20 2026 | Sep 15 2025 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | No | No |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | — |
Context window | — | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
Science reasoning GPQA Diamond | — | — |
Software engineering SWE-Bench Verified | — | — |
Multimodal understanding MMMU | — | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | GPT-5-Codex shipped 186 days before Composer 2 | |
Composer 2 and GPT-5-Codex do not have directly comparable benchmark scores published on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU. GPT-5-Codex shipped 186 days before Composer 2, 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 — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.