Composer 2 by Cursor - Fast, token-efficient frontier-level coding model

It has become very expensive. When you first launched, you were the first and the best—you had no competition. But now there are many IDEs on the market, and they’re significantly cheaper than you and perform just as well. You need to adjust your pricing strategy; otherwise, your market share will shrink considerably.

Curious where people are already feeling the difference most, bigger codebase work, speed in normal iteration, or just lower cost for heavy usage.

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The pricing on this is honestly insane. I've been using Cursor daily for the past few months and my biggest complaint was burning through tokens on longer refactors. If Composer 2 actually holds up on multi-file edits at that price point, it's a no-brainer. Updating now.

"Unified agent workspace" sounds like a productivity feature. But the problem it's actually addressing is cognitive, not technical.

When you're running multiple agents across environments, the real cost isn't latency or context limits. It's the mental overhead of holding the state of each agent in your head simultaneously.

That's not a tooling problem. It's a coordination problem. And the solution isn't better agents — it's better visibility into what they're doing and why.

The shift from "use AI tools" to "orchestrate AI systems" is going to surface a new class of problems that look like tech issues but are actually decision-making bottlenecks. The teams that build for that layer early will have a significant advantage.

You guys should really release this one on OpenRouter so we may play around with it and test it

migrated from vscode + copilot about 4 months ago and honestly haven't looked back. the codebase awareness is on another level, it actually understands the whole project not just the file your in. agent mode is where it really shines, watched it refactor an entire module while i had my coffee lol. $20/month feels very fair for what you get

Loving the “vibe coding” experience here — Composer 2 feels noticeably more stable and keeps context much better than before, which already puts it ahead of things like Opus 4.6 (still loses content too often) and way faster to iterate than Codex 5.4.

That said, @cursor still feels a bit held back by an old-school IDE layer, and the pricing makes it hard to fully commit as a daily driver. If you can improve controllability + modernize the editor experience, this could easily become my main dev environment.

The long horizon framing is the right bet. Most AI dev tools hold up fine for simple tasks, then fall apart the moment workflows get layered and messy. That's where serious builders lose trust in the tool entirely, so solving for that specifically isn't just a feature choice; it's a positioning choice.

The cost to performance angle is probably your sharpest wedge right now. Teams that want to scale AI assisted development are hitting a wall with what the expensive options charge. If you own that conversation clearly, you're not just another coding tool; you're the one that doesn't punish you for actually using it.

One thing worth testing in the messaging: the copy skews technical, which works for developers who already get it. But there's likely a wider audience you could pull in by showing the transformation more concretely. Something like what a complex 200 step workflow actually looks like before and after Composer 2, not described but shown. That kind of before-and-after tends to make abstract performance claims feel real fast.

Curious who's converting quickest: solo devs with complex personal projects or teams working across large codebases?

Strong launch.

Been playing with Composer 2 the last few days, it's been great. Unfortunately work decided to drop cursor support, at least I have my personal projects to enjoy it.