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Cost against price

What coding tools cost to run

44 tools in this category publish a monthly price. The median is $20, from $5.00 to $500. What follows is what the model underneath would cost at four shapes of work, and what that leaves for everything the company actually built.

One person using an assistant through a working day.

The median seat, $20, on the light workload

Cheapest priced model

Qwen 3.7 Flash

$0.13 to run

$19 left (99%)

Middle of the range

Gemini 3.1 Pro

$11 to run

$8.94 left (46%)

Dearest priced model

Claude Fable 5

$48 to run

$-28.50 left (-146%)

The same seat price, the same work, three model choices. Nothing about the product changed between those rows. That gap is the reason to ask a vendor which model is underneath and whether it can change without telling you.

Every coding tool that publishes a price

Entry price against the light workload on Gemini 3.1 Pro. Where the price is a range, the figure is the lowest published monthly number.

ToolEntry priceModel costLeft over
Trelent$5.00$11$-5.56 (-111%)
Pieces$8.00$11$-2.56 (-32%)
Cody by Sourcegraph$9.00$11$-1.56 (-17%)
Sourcegraph Cody$9.00$11$-1.56 (-17%)
GitHub Copilot$10$11$-0.56 (-6%)
JetBrains AI$10$11$-0.56 (-6%)
Pieces for Developers$10$11$-0.56 (-6%)
AskCodi$10$11$-0.56 (-6%)
Supermaven$10$11$-0.56 (-6%)
Tabnine$12$11$1.44 (12%)
Mutable AI$12$11$1.44 (12%)
Windsurf$15$11$4.44 (30%)
Blackbox AI$15$11$4.44 (30%)
Bito$15$11$4.44 (30%)
Warp AI$15$11$4.44 (30%)
CodeRabbit$15$11$4.44 (30%)
Codeium$15$11$4.44 (30%)
Warp$15$11$4.44 (30%)
Amazon Q Developer$19$11$8.44 (44%)
Cody$19$11$8.44 (44%)
Amazon CodeWhisperer$19$11$8.44 (44%)
Tabby$19$11$8.44 (44%)
Cursor$20$11$9.44 (47%)
Claude Code$20$11$9.44 (47%)
v0$20$11$9.44 (47%)
Bolt.new$20$11$9.44 (47%)
Kodezi$20$11$9.44 (47%)
Phind$20$11$9.44 (47%)
Base44$20$11$9.44 (47%)
Replit$20$11$9.44 (47%)
Zed$20$11$9.44 (47%)
Replit AI$25$11$14 (58%)
Lovable$25$11$14 (58%)
Replit Agent$25$11$14 (58%)
Databutton$29$11$18 (64%)
Sourcery$30$11$19 (65%)
FlutterFlow$30$11$19 (65%)
Greptile$30$11$19 (65%)
Marblism$49$11$38 (78%)
Pythagora$49$11$38 (78%)
Augment Code$50$11$39 (79%)
Mintlify$150$11$139 (93%)
Sweep AI$480$11$469 (98%)
Devin$500$11$489 (98%)

A model, not an audit. We do not know which model any of these run on or how much work a seat does, and the figures exclude caching, batching and volume discounts, all of which push a real bill down.