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AI assistant and coding plans, compared

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and 6 more products, side by side: the free tier, the cheapest paid plan and the top plan.

Coding agents sold with an assistant's plans sit right after it: Codex after ChatGPT, Claude Code after Claude.

Every row is checked against the vendor's official pages and shows the date it was last verified.

Assistants and coding

Plans side by side

Verified in the last 45 days

  1. ChatGPT
    Free tier
    FreeUnlimited text chats with GPT-6 Luna; limited and slower image generation
    Cheapest paid plan
    $8/moGoUS price; may show ads; GPT-6 Luna in Chat (rolling out); limited GPT-5.6 Terra in Work and Codex on desktop
    Top plan
    $500/moPro 500
    PlansPricing
  2. Codex
    Free tier
    FreeSee pricing page
    Cheapest paid plan
    From $8/moChatGPT plan access
    LimitsPricing
  3. Claude
    Free tier
    FreeLimited usage
    Cheapest paid plan
    $20/moProStandard individual usage; Fable 5 and 5.1 use paid usage credits from the start
    Top plan
    $200/moMax 20x
    LimitsPricing
  4. Claude Code
    Free tier
    No free plan
    Cheapest paid plan
    From $17/moClaude subscription
    PlansPricing
  5. Gemini
    Free tier
    FreeStandard compute-based limits that refresh every 5 hours up to a weekly cap; no fixed daily count
    Cheapest paid plan
    $4.99/moGoogle AI Plus2x higher usage access than Free; 200 Google Flow credits; 400 GB storage
    Top plan
    $199.99/moGoogle AI Ultra 20x
    LimitsPricing
  6. Grok
    Free tier
    FreeFree access with product limits; the public plan page does not publish a fixed task quota.
    Cheapest paid plan
    $10/mo + usageSuperGrok LitePaid app access with a lower shared weekly usage pool; the exact allowance is shown in the account.
    Top plan
    $300/mo + usageSuperGrok Heavy
    LimitsPricing
  7. Perplexity
    Free tier
    FreePractically unlimited basic searches, 3 Pro Searches/day, 1 Research query/month
    Cheapest paid plan
    $20/moProPro: $20/mo; Perplexity Computer; 4,000 bonus credits; extra usage-based credits; 5+ latest AI models; premium databases
    Top plan
    $200/moMax
    LimitsPricing
  8. Cursor
    Free tier
    FreeLimited Agent requests; limited Tab completions
    Cheapest paid plan
    $20/mo + usageProIncluded usage in two monthly pools: Cursor Models (Grok, Composer 2.5) and Other Models at API price; unlimited Tab
    Top plan
    $200/mo + usageUltra
    LimitsPricing
  9. GitHub Copilot
    Free tier
    FreeMonthly GitHub AI Credits allowance; 2,000 completions/mo
    Cheapest paid plan
    $10/mo + usageCopilot Pro1,500 total AI credits/mo (1,000 base + 500 flex); unlimited completions
    Top plan
    $100/mo + usageCopilot Max
    LimitsPricing
  10. Devin Desktop (Windsurf)
    Free tier
    FreeLight daily and weekly quota
    Cheapest paid plan
    $20/mo + usageProAccess to Devin Desktop, Devin Cloud, SWE 1.6, and extra usage at API pricing
    Top plan
    $200/mo + usageMax
    Pricing

Also covered, outside the monthly check: Tabnine

Guides

Limits and plan guides by product

ChatGPT

Codex

Claude

Claude Code

Gemini

Grok

Perplexity

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Changes

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  1. FeatureChatGPTOpenAI added Ultrafast for GPT-6.1 Sol.
  2. FeatureClaudeClaude Max and Team now include monthly API credits: $100 on Max 5x, $200 on Max 20x, and $20 per Team Standard seat or $100 per Team Premium seat, pooled and capped at $500.
  3. FeatureChatGPTChatGPT Chat moved to GPT-6 with Intelligent UI: Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise use GPT-6 Sol and Free and Go use GPT-6 Luna, with Free and Go rolling out from October 8.
  4. UpdateClaude CodeToolColumn modeling correction: Claude Code's Anthropic API access is now listed as one usage-based route billed at Anthropic API rates instead of separate per-model plans.
  5. FeatureClaude CodeClaude Code added Claude Haiku 5.5 as the default Haiku model on the Anthropic API, so the haiku alias now selects it, with a 1M-token context window at $0.10/$0.50 per million tokens ($0.50/$2.50 for prompts over 100,000 tokens).

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