What does an AI agent actually cost?
Subscription price is the wrong lens. The real monthly cost is base + token spend + ops time. Tell us your setup; we'll rank every agent in our catalog by what you'd actually pay.
Estimated monthly cost · 26 agents
Background agent that drives the Cursor editor across multi-file changes.
Base $0Ops $600Hobby tier baseline.- Free tier baseline.
- Claude CodeA80
Anthropic's terminal agent — composable, scriptable, and built around Claude's tool-use loop.
Base $0Ops $600Free tier baseline. - v0A75
Vercel's generative UI agent — design and ship React components from natural language.
Base $0Ops $600Free tier baseline. - WindsurfA80
Codeium's AI editor — Cascade agent flows alongside in-line completion and chat.
Base $0Ops $600Free tier baseline. - LovableA77
Vibe-coding builder for non-engineers — prompt a full-stack app and ship it to a live URL in minutes.
Base $0Ops $600Free tier baseline. - BoltA75
StackBlitz's in-browser AI builder — generates and deploys real Node.js apps from a single prompt.
Base $0Ops $600Free tier baseline. - Magic.devB68
Autonomous AI engineer trained on long contexts — handles hour-long coding sessions without losing track.
Base $0Ops $600Sales-led pricing — estimate excludes a custom quote. - WordwareA75
No-code AI agent builder — design and ship multi-step LLM workflows that anyone on the team can edit.
Base $0Ops $600Free tier baseline. GitHub's AI pair-programmer — inline completions, chat, and the new Agent mode that ships PRs.
Base $0Ops $600Free tier baseline.- Amazon QA80
AWS's enterprise AI agent — coding assistant, business chat, and customizable Q apps grounded in your AWS data.
Base $0Ops $600Free tier tier baseline. Code intelligence agent for enterprise — answers questions about your code, navigates large monorepos.
Base $0Ops $600Free tier baseline.- MintlifyB68
AI docs platform — generates, maintains, and answers questions on your developer documentation.
Base $0Ops $600Hobby tier baseline. - Augment CodeA75
Autonomous coding agent grounded in your whole codebase — multi-file edits with deep context.
Base $0Ops $600Free tier baseline. - TraeB65
ByteDance's AI coding IDE with autonomous Builder mode — multi-file scaffolding from a single prompt.
Base $0Ops $600Sales-led pricing — estimate excludes a custom quote. - TabnineA72
Privacy-first AI coding assistant — runs on your own infrastructure or in a private cloud.
Base $9Ops $600Dev tier baseline. - GitHub SparkB68
GitHub's natural-language micro-app builder — describe a personal app, get a deployed working version.
Base $21Ops $600GitHub Pro+ tier baseline. - Replit AgentA75
Build and ship full applications from a single prompt — runs in the Replit cloud.
Base $25Ops $600Starter tier baseline. - Factory AIA75
Autonomous "Droid" agent for end-to-end engineering with native AGENTS.md support.
Base $40Ops $600Standard tier baseline. - PythagoraB67
AI dev tool that builds entire production apps from spec — formerly GPT Pilot, open-source roots.
Base $49Ops $600 - Core tier baseline.
- Open source — base license is $0; you pay token costs and ops.
- Codex CLIB70
OpenAI’s open-source terminal agent for refactors, audits and migrations.
Base $0Tokens $60Ops $1,800Open source — base license is $0; you pay token costs and ops. - AiderA72
OSS terminal coding assistant — pair-programs, edits in place, commits as you go.
Base $0Tokens $60Ops $1,800Open source — base license is $0; you pay token costs and ops. - ContinueA77
Open-source coding agent for VS Code and JetBrains — bring your own model, customize every prompt.
Base $0Tokens $60Ops $1,800Open source — base license is $0; you pay token costs and ops. - OpenHandsA77
Open-source autonomous coding agent that plans, codes, and ships across full repos.
Base $0Tokens $60Ops $1,800Open source — base license is $0; you pay token costs and ops.
How we estimate
Three components:
- Base — the cheapest qualifying tier from the agent's published pricing, scaled to your seat count. For open-source agents this is $0; for sales-led agents we exclude it and flag a note.
- Tokens — for open-source agents (or BYO-key plans), the estimated monthly token spend based on your volume and the workflow's typical per-action cost (e.g. ~$1.20 per coding PR, ~$0.10 per support ticket). Managed agents include tokens in their subscription, so this is zero for them.
- Ops — engineering / admin hours per month at a loaded rate matched to your team size, times the typical hours required (more for self-hosted).
The model trades precision for honesty. Your specific token mix, dev rate, and integration depth will shift the numbers — but the relative ranking holds across reasonable parameter changes. See our full methodology.