AI coding assistants pair with your editor or terminal to generate, review and fix code. We compare subscription tiers, credit and quota meters, free allowances, model access and how each bills an over-using team.
5 AI Coding Assistants tools are tracked in this index. 5 of them ship a free plan (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code (Anthropic), Windsurf (Cognition), Kiro (AWS)). The lowest published entry price in the category is $10/mo (Pro) (GitHub Copilot). Across the 5 scored AI Coding Assistants entries, the index average is 4.3/5, led by Claude Code (Anthropic) at 4.5/5. Most common tags on this page: Cloud agents (2 tools), 5x Max usage option (1 tool), Agentic editor (1 tool), API-only path (1 tool). Pricing figures behind these entries were last checked between 2026-09-30; every tool page carries its own check date.
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The full set of AI Coding Assistants entries, with the plan shape each vendor actually publishes:
Every price point above is copied from the vendor's own pricing page and carries the date it was checked on the individual tool page — we do not fill gaps from third-party roundups. Where a figure could not be verified against an official source, the tool page says so instead of guessing.
GitHub Copilot is the IDE-native default: free for personal use, Pro at $10 a month, Pro+ at $39 and Max at $100, with a separate credit meter for agent usage on top of the plan price.
Cursor is the agentic editor: a free Hobby tier, Individual from $20 a month across Pro, Pro+ and Ultra, Teams at $40 per user, and usage-based billing above the limits.
Claude Code is the model-native terminal agent: it runs inside Claude Pro at $20 a month, Claude Max from $100, or straight off the API at per-token rates with no seat fee.
Windsurf, now part of Cognition, is the quota-priced editor: free with a light agent quota, Pro at $20, Max at $200, and Teams at $80 plus $40 per full developer seat.
Kiro is AWS's spec-driven IDE: free with 50 credits a month, then Pro at $20, Pro+ at $40, Pro Max at $100 and Power at $200 per user, with overage at $0.04 per credit.
When you compare AI Coding Assistants tools, the fields that decide the outcome are the ones this index actually stores: whether a free plan exists and what it limits, the published entry price and how it bills (per seat, per month, per workspace), what the trial covers, which of the six index dimensions the tool scores on, when each figure was last checked against the official page, and which alternatives sit in the same category. Each tool page prints those fields with its own verification date, the AI Coding Assistants comparison pages put two products side by side on the same fields, and the list pages rank the category against the rest of the index — so you can move from a shortlist to a decision without opening a vendor's sales page.
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5 tools are tracked here, 5 of them with a free plan, and paid entry pricing starts at $10/mo (Pro) (GitHub Copilot). AI coding assistants pair with your editor or terminal to generate, review and fix code. We compare subscription tiers, credit and quota meters, free allowances, model access and how each bills an over-using team
GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code (Anthropic), Windsurf (Cognition), Kiro (AWS) list a free plan in this index; GitHub Copilot paid plans start at $10/mo (Pro).
GitHub Copilot has the lowest published entry price on this page at $10/mo (Pro) (Usage is metered on a two-track credit system: each plan carries base credits (Pro $10/mo, Pro+ $39/mo, Max $100/mo) plus a variable flex allotment (Pro $5, Pro+ $31, Max $100), so the Pro+ total reaches $70 and the Max total $200 in monthly AI credits. One AI credit equals $0.01. Pooled organization credits are included on team tiers). GitHub Copilot also lists a free plan.
Every price point above is copied from the vendor's own pricing page and carries the date it was checked on the individual tool page — we do not fill gaps from third-party roundups. Where a figure could not be verified against an official source, the tool page says so instead of guessing.
Claude Code (Anthropic) leads this category at 4.5/5 — Claude Code is the model-native terminal agent: it runs inside Claude Pro at $20 a month, Claude Max from $100, or straight off the API at per-token rates with no seat fee. The category average across 5 scored entries is 4.3/5.