> We think the model is very capable at the given price point.

The "price point" comparison is a lie though because Composer is only available with a monthly Cursor subscription, and Cursor's external-model-per-token charges for other models are not representative of what other models' monthly subscribers get. An OpenAI $200 subscription gets you at least as much GPT 5.5 as a $200 Cursor subscription gets you Composer 2.5.

How does it compare to a $100 Claude subscription at $60? Especially in terms of how much of it I can use, because I havent found anything that is in the US that can get me similar usage as Claude at $100 per month or less, really open to alternatives.

Grok build only gave me roughly 10 hours of use for $40 for the entire month...

I don't even care about long horizon, can I use it a reasonable amount of time through the month? I use AI for hobby projects, Claude gets me quite far, but I tire of dropping $100 every month. I'm not sending my money to some Chinese firm that now has access to my computer.

I never run long horizon tasks. So Composer 2.5 is great.

Even with the new benchmark, Composer 2.5 seems to be just a bit worse than Opus 4.7. So I assume it's going to be about similar with Sonnet 5.0 at 1/6 of the cost.

Don't lie. You forked a Chinese model.