AI Coding Tools by Monthly Price: What the $10 to $200 Plans Buy (2026)
AI coding tool prices on one comparison page: Copilot Pro from $10, Cursor from $16, Claude Pro from $17, the $200 ChatGPT Pro ceiling. Free tiers and billing terms explained.
Two tools, one scorecard, verdict first. Every number in a comparison is traceable to the same fact base as the main ranking; cells still under verification are left out rather than filled.
AI coding tool prices on one comparison page: Copilot Pro from $10, Cursor from $16, Claude Pro from $17, the $200 ChatGPT Pro ceiling. Free tiers and billing terms explained.
Claude Code's 1M-token window for large repositories, the Claude Pro entry at $17 a month, and a test plan to decide whether a big context window pays for itself.
Claude Opus 5.5 vs Claude Sonnet 5.5 on verified fields: $4.00/$20.00 vs $2.00/$10.00 per M tokens, the leaderboard's everyday-default label, and a price-ratio caveat. Verdict first.
Cursor vs GitHub Copilot on verified fields: $16 vs $10 annual entry prices, free quotas of 200 vs 2,000 completions, agent workflows vs editor coverage. Verdict first.
Monthly coding tool subscriptions and per-million-token model APIs are different purchases. Learn how to tell which one you are buying before comparing prices.