What 18 AI coding agents actually cost (October 2026)
Pricing pages for AI coding agents change constantly. I collected the current public pricing for 18 agents, each copied from the vendor's own pricing or docs page, and logged every dated pricing change with a source. Amounts that aren't public are marked that way, never estimated. Here's the short
Pricing pages for AI coding agents change constantly. I collected the current public pricing for 18 agents, each copied from the vendor's own pricing or docs page, and logged every dated pricing change with a source. Amounts that aren't public are marked that way, never estimated. Here's the short version.
All prices are USD per month, for individuals, before tax, as checked on 15 October 2026.
The full table, with every plan tier and a source link for each price, is on CodingAgent Watch.
Two products tie for the lowest paid plan: Cursor Plus at $8 and ChatGPT Go at $8, which includes Codex. New self-serve customers now buy The X Subscription (Free / Plus $8 / Premium $30 / Super $100 / Ultra $200), while the legacy Pro $20 and Pro+ $60 plans stay only for existing subscribers.
Cursor Plus gives you a weekly pool of Cursor models (Grok / Composer) and no third-party models. Claude, GPT and Gemini only show up from Premium ($30), and they're paid from prepaid credit at API list price. If you mostly want Claude inside Cursor, the "$8" headline doesn't apply to you. I broke this down in Cursor vs Claude Code.
Right behind those two: Cline's ClinePass at $9.99, then Copilot Pro and Zed Pro at $10. Most others sit at $20. The full ranking is on the cheapest AI coding agents page.
13 of the 18 have some kind of free path. The most generous ones I found:
Claude Code is not on Claude Free. You need at least Pro ($20, or $17/mo billed annually). Augment Code and Factory also don't list a free individual plan. There's a full list at free AI coding agents.
The monthly fee is rarely the whole bill. How each tool handles going over:
Choosing between Copilot and Cursor? This matters more than the sticker price: Copilot vs Cursor.
Each entry links to its source in the pricing changelog.
If you want to know when one of these prices changes, there's a free newsletter that only goes out when something actually changes. And if you spot a wrong number, tell me in the comments and I'll fix it with a source.