AI Coding Tools Pricing - April 2026
CURSOR
Free - $0/mo (2K completions, 50 requests)
Pro - $20/mo (unlimited, all frontier models)
Business - $40/user/mo
GITHUB COPILOT
Free - $0/mo (2K completions, 50 chats)
Student - $0/mo (unlimited, verified .edu)
Pro - $10/mo (unlimited agent mode)
Pro - $39/mo (Opus-class models)
Business - $19/user/mo
Enterprise - $39/user/mo
CLAUDE CODE (Anthropic)
Free - $0 tool cost (pay API only)
Pro - $20/mo (Claude Sonnet 4.6)
Max 5x - $100/mo (Opus 4.7, xhigh effort)
Max 20x - $200/mo (full agentic use)
CODEX (OpenAI)
Free - $0/mo (bundled with ChatGPT free)
Plus - $20/mo (ChatGPT Plus includes Codex)
Pro - $200/mo (unlimited Codex access)
WINDSURF (Codeium)
Free - $0/mo (unlimited tab completions)
Pro - $15/mo (~1K prompts/month)
Enterprise - custom
GEMINI CODE ASSIST
Free - $0/mo (6,000 requests/day )
Enterprise - $19/user/mo
AMAZON QDEVELOPER
Free - $0/mo (unlimited completions)
Pro - $19/user/mo
OPENCODE
Free - $0 tool (140K stars, open source)
API cost - pay per model (DeepSeek: $0.28/MTok)
OPENROUTER
Free - $0/mo (free models available)
Pay-as-you-go - per token, model-dependent
AIDER
Free - $0 tool (open source)
Run local - $0 total with Ollama
cheapest serious coding setup: Gemini Code Assist free
OpenCode DeepSeek API
that's 6,000 requests/day full agent
for under 500/month in API costs.
Best paid single tool: Cursor Pro at $20/mo
best for Claude Code power users: Max 20x at $200/mo