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CursorBench

Coding benchmark from Cursor that scores AI models on software-engineering tasks; version 4.0 targets longer tasks. Model makers cite it in release evaluations.

Known aliases

  • CursorBench
  • CursorBench 3.2
  • CursorBench 4.0
  • CursorBench v3.2

Current stories

buildConfirmed8 publishers

Cursor's task-cost table shrinks Grok 4.7's 7.5x list-price gap to about 1.9x

SpaceXAI lists Grok 4.7 at $2 and $6 per million tokens against $10 and $50 for GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1, and the only per-task figures in the record put a Cursor run at $4.69 against about $9.

Perspective Coverage

8 publishers
Builder
Builder 51%
Operator
Operator 32%
Investor
Investor 17%

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption30
Hype gap+25
Incentives65
Confidence58
buildOne report1 publisher

Claude Opus 5.5 ties Fable 5.1 on two coding tests while costing 28% to 50% less per run

Claude Opus 5.5 matched Fable 5.1 on every hidden test in two New Stack coding trials, at $0.75 and $1.42 per run against $1.50 and $1.96. It needed more tokens and more minutes to get there, so the saving holds only for tasks that resemble these.

Publishers:thenewstack.io

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives40
Confidence55
investConfirmed3 publishers

xAI holds Grok's $2 token price for a model 40 Elo points behind Fable 5.1

Grok 4.7 arrived on Monday after five walked-back timelines, with 40% more parameters and Grok 4.6's list price intact. Cursor's own cost chart still puts its price per task above GPT-6 Astra and Claude Sonnet 5.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 42%
Operator
Operator 27%
Investor
Investor 31%

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption35
Hype gap+15
Incentives70
Confidence55
investOne report1 publisher

Grok 4.7 buys 5.9 points of CursorBench at Grok 4.6's token price

xAI built Grok 4.7 on a larger base model with a longer reinforcement-learning run and kept the API at Grok 4.6's rates. The open question for buyers is how many tokens the longer runs burn.

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption22
Hype gap+28
Incentives82
Confidence46
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Same price, cheaper fast mode: Opus 4.8 argues on unit economics

Anthropic held the price on Claude Opus 4.8, cut fast mode to a third of its previous cost, and handed users an effort dial. That combination is what gets agents into engineering budgets.

Publishers:anthropic.com

Reality

Evidence30
Adoption38
Hype gap+34
Incentives90
Confidence56
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Anthropic ships a price dial with its new model, and that is now the buying decision

Claude Opus 5 is pitched as near-frontier at half the cost. The cost multiple moves with the workload, and every figure on offer is the vendor's own.

Publishers:anthropic.com

Reality

Evidence30
Adoption32
Hype gap+34
Incentives88
Confidence52
buildConfirmed4 publishers

Three frontier launches in a day, all pitched on price. Open weights set the ceiling.

Grok 4.6, Qwen3.8-Max and DeepSeek V4-Pro shipped inside about 24 hours, and two of the three came with downloadable weights. The benchmarks existed to justify a cheaper invoice.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 41%
Operator
Operator 31%
Investor
Investor 28%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption52
Hype gap+22
Incentives74
Confidence63