Claude Code
Agentic coding in the terminal
Starting Price
API usage
Pricing Model
Per token
Free Tier
No
About Claude Code
Anthropic's agentic coding tool. Runs in your terminal, understands your entire codebase, edits files, runs commands, and commits code autonomously. The most powerful coding agent available.
Best For
Professional developers, complex refactors
Key Features
- Full codebase understanding
- Autonomous file editing
- Git integration
- Multi-file refactoring
- Terminal native
Category
Coding →How Claude Code compares in Coding
The 8 coding agents we track, listed alphabetically. 4 of the 8 publish a free tier. Prices are the vendor’s own published starting figure and change without notice — check the vendor’s pricing page before committing.
The bar under a price compares that plan with the dearest monthly plan in this table (5 of the 8 rows are flat monthly prices). Custom, per-seat, per-usage and annual prices are not on the same scale, so they carry no bar — a missing bar does not mean cheaper.
| Tool | Starting price | Pricing model | Free tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code (this page) | API usage | Per token | No |
| Cohere | API usage | Per token | Yes |
| Cursor | $20/mo | Subscription | Yes |
| Devin | $500/mo | Subscription | No |
| GitHub Copilot | $10/mo | Subscription | No |
| Replit Agent | $20/mo | Subscription | No |
| Tabnine | $12/mo | Freemium | Yes |
| Windsurf (Devin Desktop) | Free (Pro from $20/mo) | Freemium | Yes |
