AI agents pricing 2026

Claude Code, Codex and Cursor all start at $20 a month for 1 developer. Heavy users pay $60-200 a month, and team seats cost $25-40 per developer a month, or $120-125 for premium seats with 5x the usage

Claude Code comes with Claude Pro at $20 a month ($17 billed yearly) and Max at $100 or $200 a month. Team seats cost $25 a month ($20 billed yearly), premium seats $125 ($100 billed yearly). Enterprise is $20 per seat billed yearly, plus usage at API rates

Codex comes with ChatGPT Plus at $20 a month and Pro at $100 or $200 a month. Business seats cost $25 a month ($20 billed yearly), premium seats $125 ($100 billed yearly). Enterprise pricing is through sales

Cursor Pro is $20 a month, Pro+ $60 and Ultra $200. Teams seats cost $40 a month, premium seats $120 ($32 and $96 billed yearly). Usage above the plan is billed at API rates

On standard seats Claude Code and Codex cost $25 per developer a month, or $20 billed yearly, while Cursor Teams costs $40. On premium seats Cursor is the cheapest at $120 a month against $125 for the other 2

A premium seat gets 5x the usage of a standard seat on all 3 tools. Give premium seats to the developers who run agents most of the day and standard seats to everyone else, all 3 vendors let you mix them

Match the model to the job. Top models like Fable 5 and GPT-6 Astra cost $10 input and $50 output per 1M tokens, 2.5x Opus 5.5 and 5x GPT-6 Sol, and plans cap them: Claude plans give Fable 50% of the weekly limit, ChatGPT Plus gets 5-45 Astra messages per 5 hours against 15-150 on Sol. Keep them for hard problems and run everyday work on Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5 or GPT-6 Sol

Yes, but it costs a lot more. Anthropic says Claude Code on the API averages $13 per developer per active day, $150-250 a month, while a Team seat is $25 and a premium seat with 5x the usage is $125. Codex on an OpenAI API key runs $100-200 per developer a month according to OpenAI, and Cursor says daily Agent use costs $60-100 a month at API rates