The short answer
Cheapest at 5 seats a month
$0/mo
Retool, Free plan
- Lowest starting price
- $8 · Cursor
- Free plans
- 18 of 22
- Prices published
- 21 of 22
- Sales-led only
- 1
Vibe coding tools at a glance
Median starting price$20/moHalf start between $20 and $25
Free plan82%14% offer a time-limited trial
Buy online95%Sign up and pay without a sales call
Sales only5%Demo or contact sales to buy
How they charge
How Vibe coding tools prices moved since 2024
Same plans, today vs 2024+7%Like-for-like price index
Vendors that raised prices2Typical raise +33%
Vendors that cut prices1Typical cut -17%
Cheapest paid plan, median$20/moFrom $12.50 in 2024Q2, as vendors came and went
| Share of tools | 2024Q2 | Today |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 100% | 82% |
| Sign up online | 100% | 100% |
| Offers contact-sales | 83% | 100% |
| No public price | 0% | 0% |
| Priced per seat | 33% | 24% |
| Priced flat tiers | 17% | 53% |
| Priced credits | 0% | 12% |
Every price change we found
| When | Tool | Plan | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025Q4 → 2026Q1 | Windsurf | Teamsbilled monthly | $30 | $40 | +33% |
| 2025Q4 → 2026Q1 | Windsurf | Probilled monthly | $15 | $20 | +33% |
| 2025Q4 → 2026Q1 | Claude Code | Team Premium Seatbilled monthly | $150 | $125 | -17% |
| 2025Q4 → 2026Q1 | Claude Code | Team Standard Seatbilled monthly | $30 | $25 | -17% |
| 2024Q4 → 2025Q1 | Replit | Replit Corebilled annual | $15 | $20 | +33% |
| 2024Q3 → 2024Q4 | Replit | Replit Corebilled annual | $10 | $15 | +50% |
Changed how they charge
- Factory went from per seat to flat tiers 2025Q4
New arrivals and what they charged
- Rocket.new first appeared in 2025Q2; its first archived price was $25/mo, against a median of $20 for vendors already there
- Cline first appeared in 2024Q4; its first archived price was $30/mo, against a median of $20 for vendors already there
Read from archived copies of each vendor's pricing page in the Internet Archive, one per quarter, plus our own read today. 19 vendors have archived pricing pages. A read carries forward until the next one. The index compares the same plan at the same vendor quarter to quarter, so new and departing vendors don't move it.
What you'd pay at 5 seats a month
- Retool Free$0
- Cursor Plus$8
- Claude Code Pro$20
- Devin Pro$20
- Factory Pro$20
- OpenAI Codex Plus$20
- Windsurf Pro$20
- GitHub Copilot Pro$50
- Amazon Kiro Kiro Pro$100
- Bolt.new Teams$150
- v0 by Vercel Plus$150
Computed from each tool's published plans, allowances and overage rates.
Every Vibe coding tool, side by side
| Tool | Starts at | Usage price | Free plan | How you buy | Checks | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Retool |
$10/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 7/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Cursor |
$8/mo | – | Yes | Both | 5/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Claude Code |
$17/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 4/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Devin |
$20/mo | – | Yes | Both | 4/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Factory |
$20/mo | – | – | Both | 4/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 OpenAI Codex |
$20/mo yearly | – | – | Self-serve | 3/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Windsurf |
$20/mo | – | Yes | Both | 5/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 GitHub Copilot |
$10/mo | – | Yes | Both | 2/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Amazon Kiro |
$20/mo | – | Yes | Both | 5/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Bolt.new |
$18/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 7/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 v0 by Vercel |
$30/mo | – | Yes | Both | 7/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Base44 |
$16/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 7/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Emergent |
$17/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 8/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Replit |
$18/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 7/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
| Rocket.new | $20/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 6/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Lovable |
$21/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 7/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Bubble |
$32/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 7/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Superblocks |
$100/mo yearly | – | – | Both | 7/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Cline |
– | – | Yes | Both | 3/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 JetBrains Junie |
– | – | Yes | Both | 2/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Softr |
– | – | Yes | Both | 6/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Tabnine |
– | – | – | Sales-led | 1/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
The tools
RetoolRetool is an app builder where you describe an app in a prompt and it generates an internal app connected to your data, with governance controls built in.$10 /moCursorCursor is a coding agent product (desktop app, CLI, cloud agents, Slack and GitHub integrations) for writing and reviewing software.$8 /moClaude CodeClaude Code is Anthropic's AI coding agent that works on existing codebases from a terminal, IDE, Slack, web or mobile.$17 /moDevinDevin is a cloud-based autonomous AI software engineer that plans, codes, tests and opens pull requests, with a free tier and paid plans from $20 per month.$20 /moFactoryFactory sells Droid, autonomous AI coding agents for planning, building, reviewing and shipping software across desktop, CLI, web and SDK.$20 /moOpenAI CodexCodex is OpenAI's coding agent, included in ChatGPT plans and available in ChatGPT, an IDE extension, a CLI and a cloud environment.$20 /moWindsurfDevin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) is an AI coding IDE and agent command center from Cognition for running local and cloud coding agents.$20 /moGitHub CopilotGitHub Copilot is an AI coding agent for writing, reviewing and shipping code across IDEs, CLI, desktop app and github.com.$10 /moAmazon KiroKiro is an AWS-built agentic development environment (IDE, CLI, web, mobile) that turns prompts into specs and implements them with AI agents.$20 /moBolt.newBolt is an AI app and website builder where users chat with an AI agent to build and host apps, with built-in databases, hosting and team plans.$18 /mov0 by Vercelv0 is Vercel's AI app builder that generates web apps from prompts and deploys them to Vercel.$30 /moBase44Base44 is an AI platform where you describe an app, website or agent in plain language and it generates and hosts it with a built-in backend and database.$16 /moEmergentEmergent is an AI platform that builds web and mobile apps from plain-language prompts, with built-in hosting, database and auth.$17 /moReplitReplit is an AI platform where you describe an app, site, or slide deck in plain language and it builds, hosts, and publishes it.$18 /moRORocket.newRocket is an AI platform that combines market research, app building and competitor monitoring in one credit-based system.$20 /moLovableLovable is an AI app builder where you chat to build websites and web apps, sold on credit-based plans with unlimited users.$21 /moBubbleBubble is a no-code AI app platform for building web and native mobile apps using an AI Agent and a visual editor.$32 /moSuperblocksSuperblocks is an AI app-building platform where business teams build internal apps with the Clark agent while IT and Security govern integrations, permissions and auditing.$100 /moClineOpen source AI coding agent that runs in code editors, a terminal CLI, a desktop app and an SDK.QuoteJetBrains JunieJunie is JetBrains' coding agent that runs in the terminal, in IDEs, and in GitHub and GitLab, with a choice of AI models.QuoteSoftrSoftr is a no-code AI app builder for portals and internal tools, with a built-in database, workflows and permissions.QuoteTabnineAgentic quality engineering platform for testing enterprise software, including AI-generated code.QuoteHow this list is made
Every price is read from the vendor's own pricing page on the date shown and tied to the line it came from. Tools are ordered by what they cost at a typical volume, then by starting price. No one pays to be listed or ranked.