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9 Cheapest AI Coding Assistants of 2026

By the Rankozo research desk · Updated November 6, 2026

Among the 10 tools in our best ai coding assistants ranking, OpenAI Codex has the lowest verified paid starting price at $8 per month. Prices below are quoted from each vendor's US pricing page.

1. 01

   OpenAI Codex

   ChatGPT users who want a coding agent bundled with their existing plan, starting at $8 a month.

   Free plan; Go $8 per month, Plus $20, Pro from $100

   Full entry, No. 2 overall

   Starts at

   $8

   Score 9.1

2. 02

   Cursor

   Developers who want an agent-first editor and are happy to use Grok models or pay API rates for others.

   Free plan; Plus $8 per month (Grok models only), Premium $30, Teams from $30 per user

   Full entry, No. 5 overall

   Starts at

   $8

   Score 8.6

3. 03

   GitHub Copilot

   Developers who want the cheapest full-featured paid plan and support in almost every editor.

   Free plan; Pro $10 per user per month, Pro+ $39, Max $100

   Full entry, No. 1 overall

   Starts at

   $10

   Score 9.2

4. 04

   Zed

   Developers who want a free editor that runs Claude Agent or Codex CLI on their own subscription.

   Free plan; Pro $10 per month with $5 of tokens, Business $30 per seat

   Full entry, No. 4 overall

   Starts at

   $10

   Score 8.7

5. 05

   Claude Code

   Developers who hand off long, multi-file tasks and want Anthropic's Opus and Sonnet models.

   Pro $17 per month billed annually or $20 monthly; Max $100, Ultra $200

   Full entry, No. 3 overall

   Starts at

   $17

   Score 8.9

6. 06

   Google Antigravity

   Developers who want a free agent IDE with Gemini models, or who already pay for Google AI Pro.

   Free plan; higher limits with Google AI Pro at $19.99 per month

   Full entry, No. 6 overall

   Starts at

   $19.99

   Score 8.6

7. 07

   Devin Desktop

   Developers who want one desktop app to manage several agents and models, plus cloud agents on Pro.

   Free plan; Pro $20 per month, Max $200, Teams $80 per month plus $40 per seat

   Full entry, No. 7 overall

   Starts at

   $20

   Score 8.5

8. 08

   Kiro

   Developers who want predictable, published credit limits and AWS's replacement for Amazon Q Developer in the IDE.

   Free plan with 50 credits; Pro $20 per user per month with 1,000 credits

   Full entry, No. 8 overall

   Starts at

   $20

   Score 8.5

9. 09

   Amp

   Developers who already pay for ChatGPT or Claude and want hosted agent environments without token markups.

   Free Hobby plan; Megawatt $20 per month with 45,000 orb minutes

   Full entry, No. 9 overall

   Starts at

   $20

   Score 8.2

Scores and prices come from our Best AI Coding Assistants ranking, which uses one method for every tool. Questions or corrections: editorial@rankozo.com