3 outlets·4 reports
Moonshot says Kimi K2.5 provides "the foundation" for Cursor's Composer 2 model and that Cursor accesses Kimi K2.5 via Fireworks AI (@kimi_moonshot)

ThinkingNews Desk · how this was written
Composer 2 is a coding model priced at $0.50 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens, with a faster variant costing three times as much. It outperforms Claude Opus 4.6 but still lags behind GPT-5.4. The model is built on Kimi K2.5, accessed through Fireworks AI.
Written from all 3 reports below, not from any single one.
How it was reported
- TechMeme·Cursor says Composer 2 is "frontier-level at coding" and is priced at $0.50/1M input tokens and $2.50/1M output tokens, with a faster variant costing 3x more (Cursor)
- VentureBeat·Cursor’s new coding model Composer 2 is here: It beats Claude Opus 4.6 but still trails GPT-5.4
- Hacker News·Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL
- TechMeme·Moonshot says Kimi K2.5 provides "the foundation" for Cursor's Composer 2 model and that Cursor accesses Kimi K2.5 via Fireworks AI (@kimi_moonshot)
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