Cursor's Composer 2.5 is awesome

• May 23, 2026 at 01:46 IST
• 2 min read
• cursor
• ai

I last used Cursor in December last year, and after hearing great things about the new Composer 2.5 model, I decided to give it another try after 5+ months. While my experience is mostly positive, I will be writing about things I liked as well as things I didn't like.

What I liked:

1. Composer 2.5 model is fast, even when using without the fast mode. Most of the things I work on, just take seconds and sometimes a few minutes, making it faster than Codex or Claude models I have used in the past.
2. The 2.5 model is cheap, cheaper than all its competitors, actually. I used ~100 million tokens in a day and that resulted in only ~7% usage of the monthly limit, as you see in the screenshot here. I have posted on X about it in detail.

For your information, I am subscribed to the Cursor Pro plan which costs $20/month. And they're currently running a 2x offer for the week, but I think it's still a great value for money even after the offer ends. When I last used Cursor, the $20 plan was basically nothing when using any decent model. But that's not the case anymore, Composer 2.5 is a great model and that makes Cursor a great subscription plan right now.

What I didn't like:

I'm using a MacBook Air M2 with 16 GB of RAM and the Cursor app is just consuming too much resources, so much that the laptop is constantly running hot. I have heavily used Codex or Claude Code app but never had this issue earlier, so it's clear that they need to optimize the app for performance.

This was so serious that I ditched the app, and currently using the Cursor CLI only. It's great, I am loving it, and have even created a custom /statusline for myself.

My advice for others:

If you're confused about whether you should subscribe to Cursor, I would strongly suggest giving it a try. The Composer 2.5 model is amazing and can do most of your work.

As per calculations from my usage, if you're using 50 million tokens per day by using the Composer 2.5 model, the $20 plan will last for ~24 days before you exhaust your monthly limit. And this is great for people working on one or two projects simultaneously.

And if you can get the $60/mo plan, it's even better.