Composer 2.5 pricing: real cost per million tokens

What Cursor's Composer 2.5 really costs across 6 plans from 1 provider: monthly fees, usable allowances and real per-token prices, against the official API list price and independent leaderboards.

Data updated 2026-10-08 · How real prices are computed

As of 2026-10-08, the cheapest way to use Composer 2.5 is Cursor Ultra (Standard) at a real cost of about $0.01002 per million tokens ($200/month for roughly 19.961B tokens a month). We track 6 plans and API channels that serve Composer 2.5. Official API list price per million tokens: $0.2 cached input, $0.5 input, $2.5 output — about $0.219 per million tokens on a standard workload mix.

Lowest real price: $0.01002/MTokCursor Ultra (Standard)
API list price: $0.219/MTokstandard workload mix
Most monthly tokens: 19.961BCursor Ultra (Standard)
Plans & APIs: 66 subscriptions · 0 metered APIs

Maker: Cursor
Model ID: composer-2.5
Providers: Cursor

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Composer 2.5 plans and real prices

Real price = monthly fee ÷ tokens you can actually use in a month. “vs API” shows how many times cheaper than the official API list price (standard workload mix) the plan is. “Evidence” opens the full calculation and sources for that row.

Every tracked way to use Composer 2.5, cheapest first
Plan	Provider	Billing	Monthly fee	Monthly tokens	Real $/MTok	vs API	Confidence	Data date
Cursor Ultra (Standard)	Cursor	Subscription	$200/mo	19.961B	$0.01002	21.9×	Medium	2026-08-26~2026-09-05	Evidence ↓
Cursor Pro+ (Standard)	Cursor	Subscription	$60/mo	5.323B	$0.01127	19.4×	Low	2026-08-26~2026-09-05	Evidence ↓
Cursor Pro (Standard)	Cursor	Subscription	$20/mo	1.213B	$0.01649	13.3×	Medium	2026-08-27	Evidence ↓
Cursor Ultra (Composer Fast)	Cursor	Subscription	$200/mo	6.884B	$0.02905	7.5×	Medium	2026-08-26~2026-09-05	Evidence ↓
Cursor Pro+ (Composer Fast)	Cursor	Subscription	$60/mo	1.836B	$0.03268	6.7×	Low	2026-08-26~2026-09-05	Evidence ↓
Cursor Pro (Composer Fast)	Cursor	Subscription	$20/mo	0.418B	$0.04782	4.6×	Medium	2026-08-27	Evidence ↓

Behind each number

For every plan: the data date, the exact calculation, the quota basis, how leaderboard scores were mapped, and the original adoption evidence with its sources.

Cursor Ultra (Standard)Cursor$0.0100196/MTok

Plan

Cursor Ultra (Standard) · Cursor

Data date

2026-08-26 – 2026-09-05 · derived; uses the data date of Cursor Ultra · grok-4.6

Real price / MTok

$0.0100196

Monthly tokens

19,960,800,000 (19.961B)

Quota confidence

Medium

Calculation

$200 / month ÷ 19,960,800,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.0100196 / MTok

Quota basis

Not workload-normalized: sample lacks a token breakdown (or is an official absolute token table); raw tokens used as-is

Official API list (cached / in / out, per MTok): $0.2 / $0.5 / $2.5 · standard-load blended ≈ $0.219/MTok

Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)

Derived from same-plan grok-4.6 7.737B × 2.5799086757990866

Old 8B baseline→7.737B×project standard-workload multiplier 2.579909; moves with the round8 standard midpoint, not a Composer measurement; see cursor-adoption-round8-2026-09-06.json

cursor-adoption-round8-2026-09-06.json Browse the public evidence archive

Cursor Pro+ (Standard)Cursor$0.0112721/MTok

Plan

Cursor Pro+ (Standard) · Cursor

Data date

2026-08-26 – 2026-09-05 · derived; uses the data date of Cursor Ultra · grok-4.6

Real price / MTok

$0.0112721

Monthly tokens

5,322,900,000 (5.323B)

Quota confidence

Low

Calculation

$60 / month ÷ 5,322,900,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.0112721 / MTok

Quota basis

Not workload-normalized: sample lacks a token breakdown (or is an official absolute token table); raw tokens used as-is

Official API list (cached / in / out, per MTok): $0.2 / $0.5 / $2.5 · standard-load blended ≈ $0.219/MTok

Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)

Derived from same-plan grok-4.6 2.0632B × 2.5799086757990866

Old 2.133B baseline→2.063B×project standard-workload multiplier 2.579909; moves with round8's Ultra 77.37×800/3000, keeping the cross-tier assumption; see cursor-adoption-round8-2026-09-06.json

cursor-adoption-round8-2026-09-06.json Browse the public evidence archive

Cursor Pro (Standard)Cursor$0.0164935/MTok

Plan

Cursor Pro (Standard) · Cursor

Data date

2026-08-27 · derived; uses the data date of Cursor Pro · grok-4.6

Real price / MTok

$0.0164935

Monthly tokens

1,212,600,000 (1.213B)

Quota confidence

Medium

Calculation

$20 / month ÷ 1,212,600,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.0164935 / MTok

Quota basis

Not workload-normalized: sample lacks a token breakdown (or is an official absolute token table); raw tokens used as-is

Official API list (cached / in / out, per MTok): $0.2 / $0.5 / $2.5 · standard-load blended ≈ $0.219/MTok

Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)

Derived from same-plan grok-4.6 470M × 2.5799086757990866

Standard: the official Cursor three-part-price blend; the old 1.2079B used the rounded multiplier 2.57 — full precision is now kept

Browse the public evidence archive

Cursor Ultra (Composer Fast)Cursor$0.0290525/MTok

Plan

Cursor Ultra (Composer Fast) · Cursor

Data date

2026-08-26 – 2026-09-05 · derived; uses the data date of Cursor Ultra · grok-4.6

Real price / MTok

$0.0290525

Monthly tokens

6,884,100,000 (6.884B)

Quota confidence

Medium

Calculation

$200 / month ÷ 6,884,100,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.0290525 / MTok

Quota basis

Not workload-normalized: sample lacks a token breakdown (or is an official absolute token table); raw tokens used as-is

Official API list (cached / in / out, per MTok): $0.2 / $0.5 / $2.5 · standard-load blended ≈ $0.219/MTok

Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)

https://cursor.com/docs/models/cursor-composer-2-5; audit-round4-2026-09-05.json

Added Fast (product default) estimate: cache/input/output=0.5/3/15; billing is 2.8995× Standard; reuses the same-plan Grok standard baseline 7.737B×0.88976378 — not a measurement; Grok Fast uses the maintainer's current-account independent back-derivation 3.074B, not applied to Composer; round8 moved with the standard baseline — the old Composer Fast allowance was 7.2937B, promotion/cross-tier mixing not stripped; see cursor-adoption-round8-2026-09-06.json

https://cursor.com/docs/models/cursor-composer-2-5 audit-round4-2026-09-05.json cursor-adoption-round8-2026-09-06.json Browse the public evidence archive

Cursor Pro+ (Composer Fast)Cursor$0.0326833/MTok

Plan

Cursor Pro+ (Composer Fast) · Cursor

Data date

2026-08-26 – 2026-09-05 · derived; uses the data date of Cursor Ultra · grok-4.6

Real price / MTok

$0.0326833

Monthly tokens

1,835,800,000 (1.836B)

Quota confidence

Low

Calculation

$60 / month ÷ 1,835,800,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.0326833 / MTok

Quota basis

Not workload-normalized: sample lacks a token breakdown (or is an official absolute token table); raw tokens used as-is

Official API list (cached / in / out, per MTok): $0.2 / $0.5 / $2.5 · standard-load blended ≈ $0.219/MTok

Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)

https://cursor.com/docs/models/cursor-composer-2-5; audit-round4-2026-09-05.json

Added Fast (product default) estimate: cache/input/output=0.5/3/15; billing is 2.8995× Standard; reuses the same-plan Grok standard baseline 2.0632B×0.88976378 — not a measurement; Grok Fast uses the maintainer's current-account independent back-derivation 3.074B, not applied to Composer; round8 moved with the standard baseline — the old Composer Fast allowance was 1.945B, promotion/cross-tier mixing not stripped; see cursor-adoption-round8-2026-09-06.json

https://cursor.com/docs/models/cursor-composer-2-5 audit-round4-2026-09-05.json cursor-adoption-round8-2026-09-06.json Browse the public evidence archive

Cursor Pro (Composer Fast)Cursor$0.047824/MTok

Plan

Cursor Pro (Composer Fast) · Cursor

Data date

2026-08-27 · derived; uses the data date of Cursor Pro · grok-4.6

Real price / MTok

$0.047824

Monthly tokens

418,200,000 (0.418B)

Quota confidence

Medium

Calculation

$20 / month ÷ 418,200,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.047824 / MTok

Quota basis

Not workload-normalized: sample lacks a token breakdown (or is an official absolute token table); raw tokens used as-is

Official API list (cached / in / out, per MTok): $0.2 / $0.5 / $2.5 · standard-load blended ≈ $0.219/MTok

Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)

https://cursor.com/docs/models/cursor-composer-2-5; audit-round4-2026-09-05.json

Added Fast (product default) estimate: cache/input/output=0.5/3/15; billing is 2.8995× Standard; reuses the same-plan Grok standard baseline 470M×0.88976378 — not a measurement; Grok Fast uses the maintainer's current-account independent back-derivation 3.074B, not applied to Composer

https://cursor.com/docs/models/cursor-composer-2-5 audit-round4-2026-09-05.json Browse the public evidence archive

Composer 2.5 official API pricing

List price per million tokens
Cached input	Input	Output
$0.2	$0.5	$2.5

Frequently asked questions

How much does Composer 2.5 really cost per million tokens?

Measured as monthly fee ÷ tokens you can actually use, Composer 2.5 ranges from $0.01002 (Cursor Ultra (Standard)) to $0.04782 (Cursor Pro (Composer Fast)) per million tokens.

Which subscription gives the most Composer 2.5 usage?

Cursor Ultra (Standard) allows roughly 19.961B tokens of Composer 2.5 per month for $200.

What is the official API price of Composer 2.5?

Official API list price per million tokens: $0.2 cached input, $0.5 input, $2.5 output — about $0.219 per million tokens on a standard workload mix.

Who makes Composer 2.5, and where can I use it?

Composer 2.5 (model ID composer-2.5) is made by Cursor and is available through Cursor.