AI Coding Tools

AI code editors, coding agents and app builders, compared by subscription price, free usage and the frontier models they give you access to.

23 platforms
21 with a free tier
paid from $8/mo (Grok)
Cursor

Cursor

Subscription Featured

AI-powered code editor built on VS Code with deep codebase awareness, agentic coding, and frontier model access.

$20/mo starting
Limited agent requests and tab completions
Coding Free Tier

Pro $20/mo, Pro+ $60/mo, Ultra $200/mo. Teams $40/user/mo.

GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot

Subscription Featured

AI pair programmer integrated into VS Code, JetBrains, and GitHub. Code completions, chat, and agentic coding across all major IDEs.

$10/mo starting
50 agent/chat requests + 2000 completions/month
Coding Free Tier

Pro $10/mo; Pro+ $39/mo; Max $100/mo; Business $19/user/mo; Enterprise $39/user/mo. Agent/chat usage billed in GitHub AI Credits.

Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

Subscription Featured

AI-powered code editor with Cascade agent, inline edits, and tab completions. Supports frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

$20/mo starting
Light quota with limited model availability
Coding Free Tier

Pro $20/mo; Max $200/mo; Teams $80/mo base + $40/mo per seat; Enterprise custom

Claude Code

Claude Code

Subscription Featured

Anthropic's agentic coding tool available as CLI, desktop app, web app, and IDE extensions. Powered by Claude Opus and Sonnet models.

$20/mo starting
Coding

Pro $20/mo ($17/mo billed annually); Max from $100/mo (5x or 20x Pro usage); Team standard seat $25/mo ($20 annual), premium seat $125/mo ($100 annual)

Claude

Claude

Freemium Featured

Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, analysis and coding, with Projects, Artifacts, Research and Claude Code included on paid plans.

$20/mo starting
Sonnet and Haiku with usage limits per 5-hour session; voice, Artifacts, web search, up to 5 Projects
AI ChatCodingAudio & Voice Free Tier

Pro $20/mo ($17/mo billed annually); Max from $100/mo (5x or 20x Pro usage); Team $25/seat/mo ($20 annual), Team Premium $125/seat/mo

Grok

Grok

Subscription Featured

xAI's assistant with real-time X and web search, voice mode, Imagine image and video generation and the Grok Build coding agent, bundled with X subscriptions.

$8/mo starting
Limited Chat and agent requests; limited Imagine image generation
AI ChatImage GenVideo GenCodingAudio & Voice Free Tier

Plus $8/mo (basic shared usage); Premium $30/mo (4x Plus, latest models, image/video gen); Super $100/mo (15x); Ultra $200/mo (50x); Teams $30+/user/mo. Usage pool shared with Cursor, refreshes weekly

Replit

Replit

Credits

Browser-based IDE with AI agent that builds and deploys full-stack apps. Supports autonomous long builds and instant deployment.

$20/mo starting
Free daily agent credits and AI integrations
Coding Free Tier

Core $20/mo ($18/mo annual, $20 toward premium models); Pro $100/mo ($90/mo annual, $100 toward premium models, 10 parallel agents); Enterprise custom.

Bolt

Bolt

Credits

AI-powered full-stack app builder by StackBlitz. Build and deploy websites and web apps from prompts with instant preview.

$25/mo starting
1M tokens/month, 300K daily limit
Coding Free Tier

Free 1M tokens/mo, Pro $25/mo with 10M tokens, Teams $30/user/mo. Unused tokens roll over.

Lovable

Lovable

Subscription

AI software engineer that builds React web apps from natural language. Supports Supabase backend, GitHub sync, and one-click deploy.

$25/mo starting
5 credits/day, up to 30/month
Coding Free Tier

Free 30 credits/mo, Pro $25/mo with 100 credits, Business $50/mo with SSO.

v0

v0

Credits

Vercel's AI-powered full-stack app builder. Generate React components, deploy to Vercel, and edit visually with Design Mode.

$30/user/mo starting
$5 one-time credits for new users, 7 messages/day
Coding Free Tier

Plus $30/user/mo ($30 credits + $2/day login credits); Business $100/user/mo (adds training opt-out); Enterprise custom. Token-metered models.

Devin

Devin

Subscription

Autonomous AI software engineer by Cognition. Handles complex coding tasks end-to-end with its own IDE, browser, and terminal.

$20/mo starting
Light agent quota, limited models, unlimited Tab completions and inline edits
Coding Free Tier

Pro $20/mo; Max $200/mo; Teams $80/mo + $40/mo per dev seat (up to 200 users); Enterprise custom. Extra usage billed at API pricing.

Augment Code

Augment Code

Credits

AI coding platform with deep codebase context engine. Supports agentic coding, code review, and MCP tools integration.

$20/mo starting
Coding

Standard $20/mo flat (includes $20 usage, up to 50 seats); Business $100/mo flat (includes $100 usage, up to 50 seats); Enterprise custom. Usage beyond allowance via pay-as-you-go top-ups.

Mistral Vibe

Mistral Vibe

Freemium

Mistral AI's assistant (formerly Le Chat), combining chat, search, image generation, Work mode agents and the Vibe coding agent for CLI, IDE and web.

$14.99/mo starting
Limited access to latest models, chat, search, image creation and limited coding sessions
AI ChatImage GenCodingAudio & Voice Free Tier

Pro $14.99/mo (includes $15/mo API credits); Education $5.99/mo (verified students); Team $24.99/seat/mo; Enterprise custom

Kimi

Kimi

Subscription

Moonshot AI's chat and agent app built on Kimi K3, with documents, slides, deep research, agent swarms, website deployment and the Kimi Code coding agent.

$19/mo starting
1 concurrent agent task, 2 scheduled tasks, 2 projects, limited credits; no Kimi Code
AI ChatCodingAudio & Voice Free Tier

Plus $19/mo; Pro $39/mo; Max $99/mo; Ultra $199/mo (annual $15/$31/$79/$159 per mo). Kimi Code on Plus and above

Z.ai Chat

Z.ai Chat

Freemium

Zhipu's free chat and agent app for its GLM models, with full-stack app building, slides, writing, data analysis and deep research.

Free
Chat app is free (default GLM-5.3-Flash)
AI ChatCoding Free Tier

Chat free. Separate GLM Coding Plan for coding tools: Lite $18/mo; Pro $80/mo; Max $168/mo (quarterly -20%, yearly -30%)

OpenAI Codex

OpenAI Codex

Subscription

OpenAI's coding agent for the CLI, IDE extension, desktop app, web and iOS, included with ChatGPT plans or usable pay-as-you-go with an API key.

$20/mo starting
ChatGPT Free includes Codex desktop with GPT-6 Luna, usage-limited
Coding Free Tier

Included with ChatGPT: Go $8/mo (desktop app only); Plus $20/mo (CLI, IDE, web, iOS); Pro from $100/mo; Business $25/user/mo; or API key at API rates

Google Antigravity

Google Antigravity

Freemium

Google's agentic development platform (desktop app, IDE, CLI and extensions), which replaced Gemini CLI for free and Google One users in June 2026.

$19.99/mo starting
Unlimited Tab completions; agent use under weekly rate limits
Coding Free Tier

Free; Google AI Pro $19.99/mo (higher agent limits + AI credits); Ultra $99.99/mo (5x Pro) or $199.99/mo (20x); Business via Google Cloud from $30/seat/mo

Jules

Jules

Freemium

Google's asynchronous cloud coding agent (beta) that works on GitHub repos and opens pull requests, with a REST API and the Jules Tools CLI.

$19.99/mo starting
15 tasks/day, 3 concurrent
Coding Free Tier

Free 15 tasks/day; Google AI Pro $19.99/mo (100 tasks/day, 15 concurrent); Google AI Ultra from $99.99/mo (300 tasks/day, 60 concurrent)

Kiro

Kiro

Subscription

AWS-built agentic coding tool (IDE, CLI, web and mobile) centered on spec-driven development that turns prompts into requirements, designs and tasks.

$20/mo starting
50 credits/mo; Claude Sonnet 4.5 and open-weight models
Coding Free Tier

Pro $20/mo (1,000 credits); Pro+ $40/mo (2,000); Pro Max $100/mo (5,000); Power $200/mo (10,000); extra credits $0.04 each; Enterprise custom

JetBrains AI

JetBrains AI

Subscription

JetBrains' AI subscription covering AI Assistant in its IDEs and the Junie coding agent for IDE, CLI and CI, with bring-your-own-key and local model support.

$10/mo starting
3 AI credits per 30 days plus the free Junie Lite model; BYOK at provider rates
Coding Free Tier

AI Pro $10/mo (10 credits); AI Ultimate $30/mo (35 credits); organizations $20 and $60/seat; extra credits $1 each

Cline

Cline

Freemium

Open-source (Apache 2.0) coding agent for VS Code, the terminal and desktop, with an SDK; bring your own API key or pay for inference at cost.

$9.99/mo starting
Free and open source; bring your own API key or buy inference at cost
Coding Free Tier

Open source free (BYOK); ClinePass $9.99/mo (usage on curated open-weight models with 5-hour/weekly limits); Enterprise custom

Zed

Zed

Freemium

Open-source, high-performance code editor with a built-in AI agent and edit predictions; free with your own API keys or external agents like Claude Agent and Codex.

$10/mo starting
Editor free; unlimited AI with your own API keys or external agents
Coding Free Tier

Personal free (BYOK); Pro $10/mo (unlimited edit predictions, $5 hosted tokens, then API list price +10%); Business $30/seat/mo; 14-day Pro trial

Amp

Amp

Freemium

Coding agent and development environment (CLI, web, desktop, iOS) that runs agents unsupervised on remote machines; works with your own keys or ChatGPT and Claude subscriptions.

$20/mo starting
All features; bring your own keys or subscriptions, no Amp token fees; pay-as-you-go orbs
Coding Free Tier

Hobby free (pay-as-you-go orbs); Megawatt $20/mo (45,000 orb minutes); Gigawatt $200/mo (480,000); Teams no extra charge; Enterprise custom

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