Compare 14 free ai coding tools, free tiers, and developer deals. 1 is not a free offer. We could not confirm today's terms for 9 of them: on 5 the page we cite did not answer, and on 4 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why. Nothing on record contradicts our terms for Cursor and more.

Free AI Coding Tools

14 free tiers and developer deals. One of them is not on our ranked list — 1 is not a free offer. We also track one whose free tier has ended. Catalogue dates here run to 2026-09-26.

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 (83), IDE & Code Editors (44), Notebooks & Data Science (10).

We track 13 ai coding services with a free tier we hold as current and 2 without. This category has seen some movement — 23 pricing changes recorded across vendors.

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Vendor Tier Description Read / catalogue date
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 is $40/user/month for a Standard seat or $120/user/month for a Premium seat (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. 2026-09-24
Devin Free Autonomous AI software engineer by Cognition. Cognition replaced its Core and Team plans on 2026-04-14 with Free, Pro, Max, Teams and Enterprise. Free ($0) includes a "Light quota to code with agents", "Limited model availability", "Unlimited inline edits" and "Unlimited Tab completions". Pro ($20/month) adds cloud agents, Max ($200/month) has "Significantly higher quotas", and Teams is "$80/month for team plan + $40/mo per full dev seat". Paid plans include a usage allowance, and extra usage is billed in dollars at API pricing. Enterprise is custom-priced, with VPC deployment and SAML/OIDC SSO, and is billed in Agent Compute Units (ACUs).Our read on 2026-09-18 found the page different from the terms we hold, and we hold no confirmation of the terms we publish. 2026-09-18 / 2026-07-25
Bolt.new Free AI builder for websites, web apps and mobile apps by StackBlitz; it builds full-stack apps in the browser on WebContainers. Free plan ($0): 1M tokens per month with a 300K daily limit, public and private projects, unlimited databases, a 10MB file upload limit, and hosting on a bolt.host URL with up to 10 GB of bandwidth and 333,333 web requests a month, with Bolt branding. Pro is $25/month billed monthly ($18/month billed yearly), with no daily token limit and from 10M tokens a month. Teams is $30 per member a month ($27 billed yearly), and Enterprise is custom-priced. 2026-09-26
Lovable Free AI app builder (formerly GPT Engineer) — The free plan includes a daily grant of 5 build credits (up to 30 a month), plus monthly grants of 20 Cloud credits. The free plan also grants 4 credits usable by AI features built into user apps, to try the feature before subscribing.The page we cite for Lovable states in words that it is free, which confirms the price — the limits stated here come from our read of the vendor's page on 2026-09-03.Our read on 2026-09-20 found the page different from the terms we hold, and we hold no confirmation of the terms we publish. 2026-09-20 / 2026-08-17
Claude Code Paid Agentic coding tool by Anthropic: it reads a codebase, edits files, runs commands and works with development tools, in the terminal, IDEs, a desktop app and the browser. No free plan: "Claude Code is included in all paid plans", and Claude's Free plan does not include it. Pro is $20/month billed monthly ($17/month billed annually), Max is $100/month (5x) or $200/month (20x), Team Standard seats are $25/seat billed monthly ($20 billed annually), and Enterprise is "$20 per seat per month plus usage billed at API rates". Plan usage is shared with Claude chat. At the limit, paid plans can turn on usage credits billed at standard API rates, or use an Anthropic API key billed pay-as-you-go.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. 2026-09-02 / 2026-08-17
GitHub Copilot Free AI coding assistant by GitHub. Copilot Free is $0 with no credit card: 2,000 code completions a month, a limited monthly allowance of GitHub AI Credits for chat and agent features, and models through auto model selection only. Copilot Student is free for verified students. Paid plans include a monthly allowance of AI credits: Pro $10 (1,500 credits), Pro+ $39 (7,000) and Max $100 (20,000); Business $19 (1,900) and Enterprise $39 (3,900) per seat. Code completions are unlimited on paid plans, and usage beyond an allowance costs $0.01 per AI credit.Our read on 2026-09-12 found the page different from the terms we hold, and we hold no confirmation of the terms we publish. 2026-09-12 / 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). AWS will end support for the Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins on April 30, 2027, and points IDE users to Kiro. 2026-09-12 / 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.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. 2026-09-02 / 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.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. 2026-09-02 / 2026-07-27
Windsurf Free Windsurf is now Devin Desktop ("Devin Desktop is the new name for Windsurf."), Cognition's AI IDE. windsurf.com/pricing redirects to devin.ai/pricing, which prices it together with Devin. The Free plan ($0) includes a "Light quota to code with agents", "Limited model availability", "Unlimited inline edits" and "Unlimited Tab completions", with quotas that reset daily and weekly. Pro is $20/month, Max $200/month, and Teams "$80/month for team plan + $40/mo per full dev seat"; paid plans can buy extra usage at API list prices. Pro subscribers on the old $15/month price keep it indefinitely.The page we cite for this offer does not name it when we last looked, on 2026-09-24, so we cannot confirm these terms today. 2026-06-25 · tried 2026-09-24, no read
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 2026-09-12
Google Antigravity Free Agentic development platform by Google, generally available: a desktop app to manage multiple local agents in parallel, an agentic IDE, a CLI and an SDK, for macOS, Windows and Linux. Its agents can open and drive a local Chrome browser. The individual plan is $0/month, with Gemini, Claude and gpt-oss agent models, "Unlimited Tab completions", "Unlimited Command requests" and "Basic weekly rate limits". Google AI Pro ($19.99/month) and Google AI Ultra (from $99.99/month) add "More generous rate limits" and a "Flexible AI credit pool", and organizations can use it through Google Cloud. Announced November 2025.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. 2026-09-02 / 2026-07-27
Gemini CLI Free Open-source terminal AI coding agent by Google, Apache 2.0 licensed. Since 2026-06-18, Login with Google no longer works for personal accounts, according to Google's Gemini Code Assist deprecation notice; the README still advertises 60 requests a minute and 1,000 a day with a personal Google account. With a Gemini API key, use counts against the Gemini API's own free tier and pricing. A Gemini Code Assist Standard or Enterprise licence is unaffected. Supports MCP tools, shell commands and file editing. 2026-09-12
OpenAI Codex Free Coding agent by OpenAI. Available with a ChatGPT subscription, including the $0 Free plan, and separately with an API key billed on token use; both routes are current. OpenAI's Codex pricing page lists Free ($0/month, "Explore Codex capabilities on quick coding tasks") and Go ($8/month, "Use Codex for lightweight coding tasks"), both with GPT-6 Luna at Standard speed in the desktop app, subject to rollout. Plus ($20/month) adds Codex on the web, in the CLI, in the IDE extension and on iOS, cloud code review and Slack integrations, and GPT-6 Sol. Pro (from $100/month) gives 5x or 20x more Codex usage than Plus. 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. The Codex pricing page we cite lists only the Standard seat — the Premium seat is published on OpenAI's business pricing page. Codex-only pay-as-you-go seats closed to new Business workspaces on 2026-06-24; existing seats continue. With an API key, Codex runs in the CLI, SDK or IDE extension at API prices, without the cloud features.Our read on 2026-09-22 found the page different from the terms we hold, and we hold no confirmation of the terms we publish. 2026-09-22 / 2026-08-30
Amazon Kiro Free AI coding tool by AWS, with an IDE, a CLI and a web interface. Prompts run by default on Auto, "an agent that uses a mix of different frontier models", and users can pick Claude, GPT or open-weight models. 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. 2026-09-22

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best free ai coding service?
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 15 AI Coding services in our catalogue, listed in the table above with each one's tier, published terms and the read and catalogue dates we hold. 13 of them state a free tier we hold as current and 2 do not — the tier column says which. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
How many free ai coding tools are there?
We track 15 ai coding services on AgentDeals, 13 of which state a free tier we hold as current. These range from generous always-free tiers to limited trial periods. Of the 15 AI Coding entries we hold, 5 carry terms a read confirmed in the last 90 days.
How stable are ai coding free tiers?
23 pricing changes have been recorded across ai coding vendors. Check our Stability Dashboard for per-vendor details.
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