Updates·October 25, 2026, 15:46

AI coding help: What Claude, OpenAI and Google charge

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Claude, OpenAI and Google all sell AI programming help through subscriptions, but prices range from free to $500 a month. Here is an overview of the three.

AI tools that write and fix code are often called coding agents. The three big providers sell them as subscriptions, and the price depends mainly on how much you use them.

Claude: from $20

Claude Code is included in all paid Claude plans and draws on the same usage pool as regular chat. The free tier does not include Claude Code. Claude Pro costs $20 a month ($17 with annual billing).

Claude Max 5x costs $100 and gives five times the Pro usage. Max 20x gives twenty times the Pro usage, and Anthropic's site lists the price as $100 or more. The limits apply per five-hour session window. For teams, Team Standard costs $25 per user per month, while Team Premium costs $125 and gives five times the Standard usage.

OpenAI: Codex comes with ChatGPT

OpenAI sells Codex as part of ChatGPT: Free costs $0, Go $8, Plus $20, and Pro from $100 to $500 a month. On Plus, usage amounts to a few focused coding sessions a week, according to OpenAI. The Pro plans currently have no five-hour limit.

OpenAI estimates that on Plus and Business you can send 350-3,000 local messages per five hours with the GPT-6 Luna model and 5-45 with GPT-6 Astra. The figures are estimates, not hard limits. On the Pro tier at $500 and above, Ultrafast mode uses eight times as much of the limit, and Fast mode uses 2.5 times as much. ChatGPT Business costs $20 per user per month with annual billing and $25 with monthly billing, with a minimum of two users.

Google: new prices and a new app

According to its own blog post from I/O 2026, Google has cut Ultra from $250 to $200 a month and introduced a $100 Ultra tier.

According to an independent profile, Google's Antigravity has a free tier and Google AI Pro at $19.99 a month. Quotas are measured in the work the agent performs and apply per five hours and per week. Extra AI credits can be purchased. According to the profile, Ultra gives access to models from other providers such as Claude and GPT-OSS.

At the same time, Google is moving Gemini CLI over to Antigravity CLI. According to the profile, Gemini CLI will stop serving free, Pro and Ultra users as of June 18, 2026. Enterprise customers with Code Assist and users with an API key keep access.

The prices are a snapshot from October 2026 and may change.