Compare 14 free ai coding tools, free tiers, and developer deals. 2 are not free offers. Verified pricing for Cursor, Devin, Bolt.new, Lovable, Claude Code and more.
What this name holds: Coding agents and completion assistants that write or edit source, standalone or inside an editor.
3 other names here answer “what runs the model”, and each holds a different list: AI / ML (67), IDE & Code Editors (42), Notebooks & Data Science (10).
We track 12 ai coding services with a free tier we hold as current and 3 without. This category has seen some movement — 25 pricing changes recorded across vendors.
| Vendor | Tier | Description | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cursor | Free | AI-powered code editor built on VS Code. Hobby is the free plan: no credit card required, limited Agent requests, access to Composer — cursor.com/pricing states no completion or request figure for it. Individual paid plans: Pro $20/month, Pro+ $60/month (3x Pro's Agent limits), Ultra $200/month (20x). Teams $40/user/month (Standard; Premium at 5x Standard's Agent limits). Enterprise is custom-priced with pooled usage, invoice/PO billing and SCIM. Cursor renders only the selected tier's price in the page body; the full ladder is published in the page's JSON-LD Offer list. | 2026-09-09 |
| Devin | Free Credits | Autonomous AI software engineer by Cognition Labs. Core plan pay-as-you-go starting at $20 (ACUs at $2.25 each). Team plan $500/mo (250 ACUs at $2.00 each). Enterprise with custom pricing, VPC deployment, SSO. Previously $500-only pricing before January 2026 restructuring | 2026-07-25 |
| Bolt.new | Free | AI app builder by StackBlitz — generates frontend, backend, and database code in a live runtime environment. Free tier: 1M tokens/month (300K daily cap), unlimited databases, public + private projects, native hosting with Bolt branding, 10MB file upload limit. Paid plans from $20/mo for higher token limits. | 2026-09-09 |
| Lovable | Free | AI app builder (formerly GPT Engineer) — generates full-stack apps from natural language. Free tier: 5 daily credits (up to 30/month), public projects only (private projects require paid plan), cloud hosting on lovable.app, Lovable branding badge. Credits consumed at variable rates (simple styling ~0.50, auth setup ~1.20, full landing page ~1.70). Pro $25/mo (100 credits + 5 daily). Business $50/mo. | 2026-08-17 |
| Claude Code | Paid | Agentic coding tool by Anthropic — terminal-based AI coding agent that reads/writes files, runs commands, and manages git workflows. Available to Claude Pro ($20/mo), Team ($25/seat/mo), and Max ($100-200/mo) subscribers. Uses Claude Sonnet/Opus models. Also available via Anthropic API with usage-based pricing. Free tier via Claude.ai (limited Sonnet usage, Projects, Artifacts). April 2026 changes: (1) Third-party tool restrictions — external tools like OpenClaw now billed separately on pay-as-you-go basis, can no longer apply standard usage limits. (2) Extra usage option — all paid plans (Pro, Max 5x, Max 20x) now have pay-as-you-go overage at standard API rates beyond included usage. (3) Peak-hour throttling — 5-hour session limits reduced during weekdays 5 AM–11 AM Pacific. | 2026-08-17 |
| GitHub Copilot | Free | AI coding assistant by GitHub/Microsoft. Works in VS Code/JetBrains/GitHub.com. Copilot Free: 2,000 completions/month, an allowance of GitHub AI Credits, limited agents, auto model selection only. Copilot Student is free to verified students. Pro $10/mo (base 1,000 AI credits), Pro+ $39/mo (3,900), Max $100/mo (10,000), Business $19/granted seat/mo (1,900 per user), Enterprise $39/granted seat/mo (3,900 per user). Usage beyond the allowance is billed at $0.01/AI credit; code completions and next edit suggestions are unlimited on paid plans and not billed in credits. The April 2026 pause on new Pro, Pro+ and Student signups has been lifted — all individual plans accept new signups today. New self-serve purchase of Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise remains paused (2026-04-22), with GitHub saying sign-ups reopen soon for card and PayPal customers. | 2026-07-10 |
| Amazon Q Developer | Free | AI coding assistant by AWS. Free tier: inline code suggestions, chat, 1,000 lines code transformation/month, 50 agentic requests/month, access to latest Claude models. Supports VS Code, JetBrains, CLI, and AWS Console. Pro plan $19/user/month (higher limits, admin controls, IP indemnity) | 2026-07-30 |
| Cline | Open Source | Open-source autonomous AI coding agent for VS Code. Fully free — users provide their own API keys (OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.). Supports file editing, terminal commands, browser interaction. No usage limits beyond API provider costs. MIT licensed. | 2026-07-29 |
| Aider | Open Source | Open-source AI pair programming CLI tool. Fully free — users provide their own LLM API keys (supports GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Ollama local models). Git-aware editing, multi-file changes, voice coding, in-chat image support. Apache 2.0 licensed. | 2026-07-27 |
| Windsurf | Free | AI-powered IDE by Codeium (formerly Codeium Editor). Free tier: limited daily quotas for Cascade AI flows, code completions, AI chat (credit system replaced by quotas Mar 2026). Pro $20/mo, Teams $40/mo, Max $200/mo. SWE-1.5 Fast Agent model for faster iteration. Grandfathered Pro subscribers keep $15/mo indefinitely. All tiers include premium models | 2026-06-25 |
| Augment Code | Retired | AI coding assistant with deep codebase understanding. No free tier. Standard $20/month flat and Business $100/month flat, each covering up to 50 seats with $20 and $100 of included monthly usage respectively across LLM, Context Engine and compute; top-ups are pay-as-you-go. Enterprise is custom-priced. Flat team pricing with no per-seat charge. Supports VS Code, JetBrains and CLI. SOC 2 Type II certified | 2026-07-27 |
| Google Antigravity | Free | Agent-first IDE by Google, powered by Gemini 3. 100% free during public preview — no paid tiers yet. Built-in browser automation, multi-agent orchestration, cross-platform (Mac/Windows/Linux). Announced November 2025. | 2026-07-27 |
| Gemini CLI | Free | Open-source terminal AI coding agent by Google. Free tier with personal Google account: 60 requests/minute, 1,000 requests/day, 1M token context window. Powered by Gemini 3. Supports MCP tools, shell commands, file editing. Apache 2.0 licensed | 2026-08-27 |
| OpenAI Codex | Freemium | Cloud-native coding agent by OpenAI. Available with a ChatGPT subscription and, separately, with an API key billed on token use; both routes are current. ChatGPT Business has two seat types, both carrying Codex: Standard at $20/user/mo billed annually ($25 monthly) and Premium at $100/user/mo billed annually ($125 monthly), where Premium buys 5x more usage than Standard and removes the five-hour usage limit. Also in ChatGPT Plus ($20/mo) and Pro (from $100/mo). Codex-only pay-as-you-go seats closed to new Business workspaces in June 2026; existing seats continue. The Codex pricing page we cite lists only the Standard seat — the Premium seat is published on OpenAI's business pricing page. $100 credit per new Codex team member (up to $500/team, limited time). 2M+ weekly users. API via codex-mini at $1.50/1M input, $6/1M output tokens. | 2026-08-30 |
| Amazon Kiro | Free | Superseded: As of 2026-09-03, kiro.dev/pricing reads: KIRO FREE $0 per month 50 credits. KIRO PRO $20 per user / month 1,000 credits. KIRO PRO+ $40 per user / month 2,000 credits. KIRO PRO MAX $100 per user / month 5,000 credits. KIRO POWER $200 per user / month 10,000 credits. Add-on credits are $0.04/credit. $20 credit towards first paid plan upgrade. We are not publishing our stored Amazon Kiro terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-09-03, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓ | 2026-08-18 |
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