AI Tool Pricing Benchmark: What Entry Actually Costs Across the Index

Every tool page on Airecmark carries a price we re-verified against the vendor's own pricing page (T0 source, with a fetch date). This benchmark aggregates that dataset: which billing models dominate, where the entry floor sits, and how fast per-seat pricing accumulates for teams.

Two structural notes. First, freemium remains the category default — free tiers are a distribution strategy, not generosity, and credit math is where vendors actually compete. Second, per-seat pricing is quietly re-entering through AI features: $30/user for a builder like v0 reads differently at 50 seats than $29 flat for Copy.ai's five-seat chat plan.

The appendix table is computed live from the index — it updates when pricing changes, and every figure links back to the tool page with its source.