B-01 · Category pricing economicsarchive-recorded · snapshot 2026-09-17
Coding AI Tools: Pricing Economics
Pricing economics for the Coding category across 55 archives: 34 carry a numeric starting price, 41 are free-tier listings, and 21 archives without a numeric amount are compared by pricing label only. Unit groups are never mixed — every comparison below is within a single billing unit.
Key numbers
Archives
55
data/tools · N=55
Numeric starting price
34
pricing.startingPrice.amount · N=55
Free-tier listings
41
pricing.model · N=55
Median mo starting price
$18.5/mo
unit=mo amounts · N=18
Label-fallback listings
21
pricing.label · N=55
Unit groups
2
startingPrice.unit · N=34
Starting-price spread by billing unit
only numeric amounts; null amounts excluded (R5)
| Unit | Listings | Min | Median | Max |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mo | 18 | $0 | $18.5 | $49 |
| user | 16 | $0 | $19 | $59 |
Lowest mo-unit starting prices (top 10)
the largest unit group in this category: unit="mo", N=18
| Tool | Starting price | Model | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider | $0/mo | free | Free · OSS (Apache-2.0) + BYO API key |
| Codegen | $0/mo | free | Product discontinued 2026-01-09 (acquired by ClickUp; capabilities folded into ClickUp Super Agent) |
| Trae | $0/mo | free | Free (all features including agent mode) |
| GitHub Copilot | $10/mo | freemium | Pro $10 / mo · Free tier available · Business $19 |
| Refact.ai | $10/mo | freemium | Free · Pro from $10/mo (40 agent requests/day) · Enterprise custom |
| Supermaven | $10/mo | freemium | Free (basic completions) · Pro $10/mo · Team $10/user/mo |
| Sweep | $10/mo | freemium | Free trial ($5 credits) · Basic $10/mo · Pro $20/mo · Ultra $60/mo |
| Zed | $10/mo | freemium | Personal free (2,000 accepted predictions) · Pro $10/mo · Business $30/seat/mo |
| Claude Code | $17/mo | subscription | In Claude Pro ($17–20 / mo) · Max from $100 · API optional |
| Jules | $19.99/mo | freemium | Free 15 tasks/day · via Google AI Pro $19.99/mo (100 tasks/day) · AI Ultra $124.99/mo (300 tasks/day) |
Pricing model distribution
Count of archives per recorded pricing.model across the 55 Coding archives.
Method
- Population: category = "coding" archives (N=55); pricing fields as recorded (pricing.model, pricing.startingPrice.amount, pricing.startingPrice.unit).
- Unit discipline: amounts are grouped by startingPrice.unit and compared only within the same unit; cross-unit arithmetic is never performed.
- Null discipline: archives with a null startingPrice.amount (21 here) are excluded from every numeric statistic and fall back to pricing.label, then pricing.model, for display.
- Median over each unit group uses the standard median; min/max are the observed extremes in that group.