Fighting Back · the cost side · March 2026
Fifty cents, against five dollars.
List price per million input tokens: Cursor's own Composer 2 against Claude Opus.
List-price gap
10×
Output tokens: $2.50 against $25.00
Claude Opus through Cursor · Cursor is a reseller
Composer · Cursor is the manufacturer
Third-party models on Teams and Enterprise carry a $0.25 per-million Cursor Token Rate on top of the model's price. First-party models are exempt.
On Claude, Cursor keeps a spread. On Composer, it keeps everything above its own cost.
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