According to DevTools Review's pricing research across 11 AI coding tools, verified against each vendor's official pricing page, prices for this category range from $0 for genuinely usable free tools (Cline, Aider, Zed, Cody) to $200/month for the highest agentic-usage tiers (Cursor Ultra, Windsurf (now Devin Desktop) Max, Claude Code Max 20x). Most individual developers land in the $10–$20/month range — GitHub Copilot Pro is the cheapest mainstream paid option at $10/month, Cursor and Windsurf both start their Pro tier at $20/month, and Claude Code is included with a $20/month Claude Pro subscription. There is no single "cheapest" or "most expensive" answer, because these tools price on different axes — flat subscriptions, per-seat team pricing, and usage-metered agent tiers all coexist in this category.
This exists because per-tool pricing guides go deep on one tool at a time, but nobody wants to open eleven tabs to figure out what the whole category costs. Below is every plan, from every tool we track, in one place.
Quick Answer: Cheapest to Most Expensive
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