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Compare 17 AI coding assistants side by side — pricing, free tiers, and type (AI IDEs, editor extensions, CLI agents, and cloud agents). Sort by price, filter by category, and see what each really costs once you account for credits and usage.
Updated June 2026
The most capable all-round AI IDE — tab completion plus a strong agent, in a familiar VS Code base.
The terminal favourite for large, autonomous multi-file work and refactors.
Cheapest serious option at $10/mo with a free tier, right inside your editor.
Open-source with zero markup — bring your own key and pay only for the tokens you use.
Tool | Type | Pricing | Vote | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
AI-Native IDE | Free from $20/mo | 0 | ||
AI-Native IDE | Free from $15/mo | 0 | ||
AI-Native IDE | Free from $15/mo | 0 | ||
AI-Native IDE | Free | 0 | ||
AI-Native IDE | Free from $20/mo | 0 | ||
AI-Native IDE | Free from $19/mo | 0 | ||
IDE Extension | Free from $10/mo | 0 | ||
IDE Extension | Free | 0 | ||
IDE Extension | Free from $25/mo | 0 | ||
IDE Extension | Free from $10/mo | 0 | ||
IDE Extension | Free from $9/mo | 0 | ||
CLI Agent | from $100/mo | 0 | ||
CLI Agent | Free | 0 | ||
CLI Agent | Free | 0 | ||
Cloud Agent | from $20/mo | 0 | ||
Cloud Agent | — | 0 | ||
Cloud Agent | Free from $19/mo | 0 |
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An AI coding assistant uses large language models to help developers write, edit, debug, and understand code. The category spans everything from a single autocomplete extension that finishes your line to a fully autonomous agent that plans and executes multi-file changes, runs terminal commands, and opens pull requests on your behalf.
In 2026 the market splits into four shapes — AI-native IDEs (Cursor, Windsurf), editor extensions (GitHub Copilot, Cline), CLI agents (Claude Code, Aider, Codex), and cloud agents (Devin, Amazon Q). Pricing has fragmented just as much: flat subscriptions, credit systems, and bring-your-own-key (BYOK) billing now sit side by side, which is why the sticker price rarely tells you what you'll actually pay.
Which shape fits depends on your workflow. Here's every tool we track, grouped by category, with what it's best at and where its pricing starts.
Full editors rebuilt around AI — completion, inline edits and an agent in one place.
AI-first code editor built on VS Code with deep model integration for tab completion, inline edits, and agentic coding.
Cursor pricing & review →AI IDE by Codeium (now OpenAI) with Cascade agentic engine for multi-file editing and deep codebase awareness.
Windsurf pricing & review →AI-native IDE by ByteDance with Builder agent for multi-file tasks and Claude/GPT model support.
Open-source AI code editor. VS Code fork with local-first approach — bring your own API keys, no vendor lock-in.
High-performance code editor written in Rust with built-in AI assistant, real-time collaboration, and inline generation.
AWS spec-driven AI IDE. Generates specs, designs, and tasks before writing code — built for structured, production-grade development.
Add AI to the VS Code or JetBrains setup you already use, with no migration.
The original AI coding assistant. Inline completions, chat panel, and agent mode across VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, and more.
GitHub Copilot pricing & review →Open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code. Creates and edits files, runs terminal commands, and uses browser — with human-in-the-loop approval.
Cline pricing & review →Open-source AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains. Autocomplete, chat, inline edits with any model — local or cloud.
Ultra-fast AI code completion with 1M token context window. Designed for low-latency inline suggestions.
AI assistant with deep codebase context via Sourcegraph code search. Chat, completions, and inline edits across entire repositories.
Terminal agents that read your whole codebase and edit it directly.
Anthropic's agentic coding tool. Terminal-based agent that understands your codebase, edits files, runs commands, and creates commits/PRs.
Claude Code pricing & review →Open-source AI pair programming in the terminal. Works with any LLM, Git-aware edits, voice coding, and multi-file support.
OpenAI's open-source terminal coding agent. Sandboxed execution with network-disabled environment for safe autonomous coding.
Codex pricing & review →Autonomous agents that run in a sandbox on tasks you delegate.
Autonomous AI software engineer by Cognition. Full cloud dev environment with browser, terminal, and editor — works async on tasks.
Devin pricing & review →GitHub's async coding agent. Assign issues to Copilot and it creates PRs autonomously in a cloud sandbox — integrated with GitHub Actions.
AWS AI coding assistant with inline suggestions, chat, and autonomous agents for code transformation and feature development.
Amazon Q Developer pricing & review →Most individual Pro plans land at $10–$20/month and team or enterprise seats run $19–$40/user/month. But the headline number is increasingly misleading, because the billing model underneath it varies:
The practical upshot: heavy daily users usually win with an unlimited or flat subscription, while occasional users often pay less with BYOK. The break-even depends entirely on your monthly token volume — which is exactly what our cost calculator estimates. One more wrinkle: most modern tools support prompt caching, which can sharply cut the real cost of the repeated context that dominates agentic coding.
Start from how you actually work, then match the shape:
Then sanity-check the cost. If you only code occasionally, a free tier or a BYOK tool may be all you need; if you're in your editor all day, a flat subscription almost always beats per-token billing.
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