Cursor vs Claude: The Business Models Behind the 10x Price Gap

The previous post covered Composer 2's cache mechanics and the Standard/Fast split. This one goes one level deeper: why the price gap exists structurally, and what it predicts about where AI model markets are heading. The Two Business Models The $0.50 vs $5.00 price gap between Composer 2 Standard and Claude Opus isn't primarily about model size. It's about two fundamentally different business models. Anthropic/OpenAI: Build the most capable general-purpose model possible. License i...