Pricing trends for AI Coding: 21 tracked pricing changes across 15 vendors. Direction: prices rising.

AI Coding Pricing Trends

Pricing direction: ↑ Prices rising

15
Vendors
4%
of All Tracked Changes
3
At-Risk Vendors
restructured 7 removed 3 restricted 3 new tier 2 new 2 deprecated 1 increased 1 reduced 1 rebranded 1

Announced, not yet in effect

What this section prints is decided by the calendar, not by anything the vendor did. One record here carries a date after 2026-09-30. The vendor has announced it and it has not taken effect, so it is not part of the history below. On its own date a record here joins the Pricing Change Timeline, below.

Announced deprecated OpenAI Codex effective 2026-10-14 medium
GPT-5.5 retires from ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work and Codex on all plans on 2026-10-14. OpenAI's Codex pricing page, which now redirects to learn.chatgpt.com, says the OpenAI API is not affected. Source ↗

Pricing Change Timeline

Every record we hold is listed here, newest first. A record is never removed from this list, so a vendor named here stays named here whatever its verdict does afterwards.

increased Lovable discovered 2026-09-03 · effective date unknown low
The free tier now includes 20 Cloud credits in addition to the 5 daily (up to 30/month) build credits, and 4 credits for AI features. Source ↗
removed Augment Code discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown high
The free tier has been removed. The entry plan is Standard at $20/month flat, with Business at $100/month flat; each covers up to 50 seats and includes $20 and $100 of monthly usage respectively. Corrected 2026-09-02: this row previously stated the lowest tier was Business at $100/month. Source ↗
new tier Amazon Kiro effective 2026-07-10 low
Kiro added a Pro Max plan at $100 per user a month with 5,000 credits, between Pro+ and Power. It first appears on kiro.dev/pricing between the 2026-06-03 and 2026-07-10 captures. Source ↗
restricted GitHub Copilot effective 2026-06-24 medium
GitHub limited Copilot Free and Copilot Student to auto model selection, so Free users can no longer choose which model answers. Source ↗
removed Google Gemini Code Assist effective 2026-06-18 high
Google stopped serving Gemini Code Assist for individuals, its free tier, on 2026-06-18. The IDE extensions and Gemini CLI no longer accept Login with Google for the individuals, Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra tiers. Standard and Enterprise subscriptions are unchanged. Source ↗
restricted Gemini CLI effective 2026-06-18 medium
Gemini CLI stopped accepting Login with Google for personal accounts on 2026-06-18, which ended the personal-account free tier of 60 requests a minute and 1,000 a day. It still runs with a Gemini API key, Vertex AI, or a Gemini Code Assist Standard or Enterprise licence. Source ↗
reduced Amazon Kiro effective 2026-06-03 medium
Kiro stopped giving new users 500 bonus credits on sign-up, usable within 30 days, and now credits $20 toward the first paid plan instead. The change falls between the 2026-05-02 and 2026-06-03 captures of kiro.dev/pricing. Source ↗
rebranded Windsurf effective 2026-06-02 low
Cognition renamed Windsurf Devin Desktop. Existing Windsurf users kept their plans and prices. Source ↗
restructured GitHub Copilot effective 2026-06-01 high
GitHub retired premium requests and now bills every Copilot plan in GitHub AI Credits. Copilot Free kept 2,000 code completions a month, and its 50 chat and agent requests a month became an allowance of AI credits. Plan prices did not change: Pro at $10 a month now includes $15 of usage and Pro+ at $39 includes $70, and the new Max plan is $100 with $200. Source ↗
restructured Devin effective 2026-04-14 high
Cognition retired Devin's Core and Team plans and introduced Free, Pro, Max, Teams and Enterprise; Core users moved to the Free plan. Usage past a paid plan's allowance is billed in dollars, and only Enterprise still uses ACUs. Source ↗
removed Augment Code discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown medium
Free tier removed. Lowest plan is now Indie at $20/month with 40K credits. Credit-based consumption model replaces flat per-seat pricing Source ↗
new tier OpenAI Codex effective 2026-04-02 medium
OpenAI added Codex-only seats for ChatGPT Business and Enterprise workspaces, with no fixed seat fee, no rate limits and usage billed on token consumption, and cut ChatGPT Business's annual price from $25 to $20 per seat. Standard Business seats, which include Codex with usage limits, continued. Source ↗
restructured Windsurf effective 2026-03-19 medium
Windsurf replaced credits-based pricing with daily/weekly quotas (Mar 19, 2026). New tiers: Pro $20/mo (was $15), Teams $40/user/month, Max $200/month. Free tier changed from flexible credits to hard quotas. Existing Pro subscribers grandfathered at $15/mo Source ↗
restricted GitHub Copilot effective 2026-03-12 medium
Student plan now managed under dedicated 'GitHub Copilot Student' plan. Premium models (GPT-5.4, Claude Opus, Claude Sonnet) removed from manual self-selection — still available via Auto mode (system picks the model). Source ↗
restructured GitHub Copilot effective 2026-02-01 medium
Premium request model introduced across all tiers. Free: 50/mo, Pro: 300, Pro+: 1,500, Business: 300/user, Enterprise: 1,000/user. Overage at $0.04/request. Advanced reasoning models consume 5x-20x per interaction Source ↗
restructured Augment Code effective 2025-10-01 medium
Shifted from per-seat subscription to credit-based consumption model Source ↗
restructured Cursor effective 2025-06-16 medium
Cursor moved Pro from 500 requests a month to usage-based pricing and introduced a $200/month Ultra tier. Source ↗
restructured Devin effective 2025-04-03 high
Launched $20/month Core plan with pay-as-you-go ACU pricing, down from previous $500/month-only Team plan Source ↗
new Google Gemini Code Assist effective 2025-02-25 high
Google announced a public preview of Gemini Code Assist for individuals, a free version of its coding assistant powered by Gemini 2.0, with up to 180,000 code completions a month, in VS Code, JetBrains IDEs and GitHub. Source ↗
new GitHub Copilot effective 2024-12-18 high
GitHub launched Copilot Free tier — AI code completion available to all GitHub users at no cost. 2,000 completions and 50 chat messages per month included Source ↗

We hold 23 more records filed under this category that are not counted above: entries the vendor has since reversed, our own index housekeeping, and corrections to earlier entries of our own. Read the full change log.

At-Risk Vendors

All 3 of the 15 vendors we list in this category that carry one. A vendor is named here for as long as a demotion is in force against it: a one-off pricing event, recorded against a source we cite, whose date falls in the last 180 days — or a standing condition, also cited, such as a free tier withdrawn or a product retired, which does not expire with time. A demotion can lift with nothing about the vendor having changed, and that happens on the day the vendor's newest qualifying event passes 180 days.

Stable Picks

All 4 of the 15 vendors we list in this category that qualify, not a selection of them. A vendor is named here for as long as no demotion is in force against it and we hold no change record for it dated in the last 90 days — any record, including ones the timeline above does not count. A vendor can join this section on a day we recorded nothing about it, when the later of those two clocks runs out: 90 days after its newest record, or the day the demotion against it lapses. It leaves on the day we file a new record, or the day we can no longer vouch for the terms we list.

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