The median entry price for AI Coding & Dev Tools in 2026 is $18.50 a month. Across all 252 tools we price-check the median is $19.99, so this category runs about the same as software average.
That comes from 6 tools in the category whose monthly price the vendor publishes on its own site. The range runs from GitHub Copilot at $10 to Kiro at $20 — a spread of 2x for products that sit on the same shortlist.
Every published price in the category
| Tool | Entry price | Free tier | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | $10/mo | Yes | Per seat |
| Cursor | $16/mo | Yes | Flat |
| Replit | $17/mo billed annually | Yes | Flat |
| Claude Code | $20/mo | No | Flat |
| Devin | $20/mo | Yes | Flat |
| Kiro | $20/mo | Yes | Flat |
How much of this category is free
7 of 8 have a free tier (88%), against 56% across all categories. Free is the norm here, so treat a vendor who will not offer one as telling you something — and never pay before you have run real work through the free plan.
Per seat or flat
1 of 8 charge per seat (12%). Where that is the model, the entry price is not the price: it is the price of one person. Multiply by your real headcount before comparing anything, and check whether viewers are free — on a team with more readers than writers that distinction can halve the bill.
Where to start
The floor is GitHub Copilot at $10, which also has a free tier. Below $18.50 the category is GitHub Copilot at $10, Cursor at $16, Replit at $17. Those are real products, not trials, and for a small team they are usually the right place to start: the expensive tiers in this category buy scale and administration, which are worth paying for once you have the problem and not before.
What the headline price leaves out
An entry price is a plan, not a bill. The caveats we recorded while verifying this category are the ones most likely to change what you actually pay:
- GitHub Copilot — unchanged; Pro+ $39 and Max $100 sit above it
- Cursor — Cursor moved to usage-based billing in 2025; credits can deplete on heavy use. Verify on cursor.com.
- Claude Code — Claude Code ships with Pro/Max (not the $20 Team Standard seat) or via the API. Verify on claude.com.
- Devin — Moved off per-ACU consumption billing to subscription tiers with a refreshing quota; windsurf.com redirects to devin.ai and the editor is sold as Devin Desktop. Team is $80/mo plus $40 per full dev seat.
The free tiers in this category, for the record: Aider, Cline, Cursor, Devin, GitHub Copilot, Kiro, Replit. Whether each is usable or decorative varies, and the only reliable test is running a real piece of your own work through it before the card comes out.
For what each of these actually does rather than what it costs, see our AI Coding & Dev Tools comparison. Every price here is verified from the vendor’s own page on a recorded date and kept in our public pricing dataset.
Related research: we classified the published entry price of 302 SaaS and AI tools by what kind of figure it actually is, and found that 53% of the tools advertising a recurring price headline the annual rate rather than the monthly one. The full dataset and method are published with it.
What AI Coding & Dev Tools Cost in 2026. DigiJaws, 2026. https://digijaws.com/reviews/what-ai-coding-dev-tools-costs/