Best AI Code Editors in 2026: Real Pricing, Real Limits

GitHub Copilot Free gives you 2,000 completions and 50 chat requests a month. Cursor Pro is $20. Copilot Pro is $10, Zed Pro is $10 with $5 of tokens included, AWS Kiro Pro is $20 for 1,000 credits, and Trae starts at $3 a month for the Lite plan. Windsurf is gone — the URL now redirects to Devin Desktop — and Void was archived on 2 June 2026.

Last verified: 5 September 2026. Re-fetched that day and unchanged: every Cursor price; Copilot’s Business ($19/seat) and Enterprise ($39/seat) rows and their credit allowances; and the tier prices for Zed, Trae, Kiro, Antigravity and JetBrains AI Ultimate. Still carrying their 29 August 2026 check: Copilot’s individual tiers (Free, Pro, Pro+, Max), the three credit values in the chart below, Zed’s overage rate, Kiro’s add-on credit mechanics, and the Google AI Pro / AI Ultra subscription prices.

Three things moved. Cursor’s docs pricing page changed URL. Copilot’s promotional credit window for existing Business and Enterprise customers closed on 1 September 2026. And Cursor has a billing-basis change for Enterprise Auto landing on 7 September 2026 — two days after this check; details below, and I can’t tell you what it changes to.

What this page is: a record of what each vendor publishes on its own pricing pages and docs, checked by hand on one day, with the gaps marked as gaps. It is not a review. I have not benchmarked these editors, timed them, or ranked their output quality, and nothing below is a speed or quality claim. Where a vendor doesn’t publish a number, or where I couldn’t get the page to render, the cell says so instead of guessing. An earlier version of this page carried figures with no sources behind them, which is why it came down.

The table

Monthly prices in USD, per user where a plan is seat-based.

Editor	Free tier	Individual paid	Team / seat	What the paid meter counts
Cursor	Hobby $0, no card, “limited Agent requests” — no number published	Pro $20, Pro Plus $60, Ultra $200. Start ₹649, India only, tax inclusive	Teams Standard $40/user, Teams Premium $120/user. Enterprise “Custom”	Tokens — the docs page has the figures, the pricing page sells tiers as multipliers
GitHub Copilot	2,000 completions + 50 chat requests/mo	Pro $10, Pro+ $39, Max $100	Business $19/seat, Enterprise $39/seat	AI Credits at $0.01 each. Pro 1,500/mo, Pro+ 7,000, Max 20,000, Business 1,900/seat, Enterprise 3,900/seat
Zed	Personal $0, 2,000 accepted edit predictions/mo; unlimited with your own API keys	Pro $10, includes $5 of tokens	Business $30/seat, no seat minimum	Tokens. Overage billed at API list price +10%
JetBrains AI	Unlimited Mellum code completion, plus unlimited use of your own local models	AI Ultimate $30, includes $35 in AI Credits ($5 bonus). AI Pro price not confirmed this cycle	Not verified this cycle	AI Credits, 1 credit = $1.00, charged in local currency
Trae	$0, 5,000 autocompletes/mo	Lite $3, Pro $10 (after a 7-day trial), Pro+ $30, Ultra $100	Enterprise route published via BytePlus, no price	Not captured in the pages I could read
AWS Kiro	$0, 50 credits/mo	Pro $20 (1,000 credits), Pro+ $40 (2,000), Pro Max $100 (5,000), Power $200 (10,000) — all per user/month	Enterprise tier exists, contact-sales, no published price	Credits. Add-ons $0.04 each, packs $5–$100
Google Antigravity	Individual $0, unlimited tab completions and command requests, “basic weekly rate limits”	No standalone price. Paid access rides on a Google AI Pro or Google AI Ultra subscription	Organization plan via Google Cloud, “Consumption-Based API Pricing”, no figure published	A “flexible AI credit pool” on the paid tiers

Sources fetched 5 September 2026: cursor.com/pricing, cursor.com/docs/models-and-pricing, github.com/features/copilot/plans, docs.github.com Copilot usage-based billing, zed.dev/pricing, lp.jetbrains.com/ai-ides-faq, trae.ai/pricing, kiro.dev/pricing, antigravity.google/pricing.

Sources fetched 29 August 2026 and not re-fetched since: docs.github.com Copilot billing concepts.

Four details the table can’t hold at a readable width, in the vendors’ own words. JetBrains’ free tier is “Unlimited code completion (powered by JetBrains’ Mellum model)” plus “Unlimited use of your own local models, connected via Ollama, LM Studio, or another OpenAI-compatible server.” Trae’s enterprise path reads “Looking for enterprise solutions? Contact us via BytePlus.” Kiro says “Upgrading to a paid subscription requires a valid credit card” and says nothing either way about whether the free tier needs one. And GitHub’s $0.01 credit value is on its billing-concepts docs, not on the plans page you land on from the pricing nav.

PearAI is not in the table, deliberately. The project is real and healthy — the GitHub repo resolves, is not archived, and is Apache-2.0 — but trypear.ai and trypear.ai/pricing both return HTTP 403 to a direct fetch, so there is no vendor page behind any pricing claim I could make about it. A product name in a pricing table with nothing verifiable under it is exactly the shape of defect that got the previous version of this page pulled, so it stays out until the site is reachable.

Two vendors publish no last-updated date on the pages this table depends on: JetBrains’ AI IDEs FAQ, which is the sole source for the $30 Ultimate price and the $1.00 credit value, and GitHub’s Copilot plans pages. Nothing suggests either is stale. It just can’t be confirmed, which on a page that promises monthly re-checking is worth saying rather than assuming.

Two of these products no longer exist

If you are reading a roundup written in spring 2026, two of its recommendations are dead links or dead brands.

Windsurf is now Devin Desktop. The redirect is path-preserving, so it depends where you land: windsurf.com 308s to devin.ai/desktop, and windsurf.com/pricing 308s to devin.ai/pricing. Either way it’s a permanent redirect — the vendor’s own server saying the product moved. The rename to Devin Desktop is dated 2 June 2026 and Cognition’s acquisition of Windsurf to July 2025; both dates come from secondary reporting, because Cognition’s own announcement post rate-limited every attempt to fetch it. The name is retired, not deprecated-with-a-grace-period.

I am not quoting Devin Desktop’s prices at all. devin.ai/pricing and devin.ai/desktop both returned HTTP 429 to every attempt on 29 August, and the secondary write-ups contradict each other about how it even bills — one describes ACU-based billing, another a dollar-credit lineup that replaced it. With the primary source unreachable, picking between them would be guessing, so the rename is all this page asserts about it. Go to devin.ai/desktop yourself for the current numbers.

Void is discontinued. The voideditor/void repository was archived by its owner on 2 June 2026 and is read-only. The repo itself states Void is “deprecated and no longer accepting contributions.” The last released binary still runs and it’s still Apache-2.0, so nothing was deleted, but there is no update path and no stated plan to resume. It appeared on the earlier version of this page as a live recommendation. It isn’t one.

Cursor belongs to SpaceX now, and its own footer disagrees

Cursor’s blog carries a post dated 14 August 2026 titled “Cursor is now a part of SpaceX.” It says “Cursor has officially been acquired by SpaceX” and “This completes the acquisition process that started in April, when we announced our partnership with SpaceXAI to accelerate our model training efforts.” Note which entity that names — SpaceXAI, the same division behind the Grok models. The post states no valuation, so neither will I: the $60B figure you’ll see quoted comes from press coverage, not from Cursor. The product name is unchanged and so is the pricing page.

The footer of cursor.com, fetched on 29 August, still reads ”© 2026 Anysphere, Inc.” That is a live contradiction on a single page: an announcement of the acquisition sitting above a copyright line attributing the product to the acquired company. Neither statement is wrong exactly. The ownership changed and the boilerplate didn’t. Worth knowing if you’re the person who has to write down which legal entity you’re buying from. It’s the same pattern as xAI’s slow rebrand to SpaceXAI, where the product surfaces lagged the corporate change by months.

Copilot’s promotional credits have run out

GitHub moved Copilot from premium-request-units to AI Credits on 1 June 2026. Headline prices held flat: Pro $10, Pro+ $39, Business $19/user, Enterprise $39/user.

Alongside that, GitHub said that “existing Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise customers will automatically receive promotional included usage for June, July, and August: Copilot Business: $30 in monthly AI Credits / Copilot Enterprise: $70 in monthly AI Credits.” Note the scope — existing customers, and three named months.

GitHub’s usage-based billing docs put an explicit date range on it. Under the heading “Promotional amounts for existing customers”, they state that existing Business and Enterprise customers “receive a higher amount of included AI credits for the first three months of usage-based billing (June 1 – September 1, 2026)”, listing 3,000 credits for Business and 7,000 for Enterprise, and that “After the promotional period, included usage returns to the standard amounts above.”

That window closed on 1 September. Re-checked 5 September 2026: the standard figures are 1,900 AI credits per user per month on Business and 3,900 on Enterprise. Budget on those.

One thing to watch if you go looking yourself — the promotional table is still published on that docs page, describing a window that has already passed. It documents the promotion; it does not offer it. Read the date range above the table before you budget against the larger number.

Two more details from the same announcement that matter more than the price:

Code completions and Next Edit suggestions are included in every plan and don’t consume AI Credits. Only the agentic and chat surfaces draw down the balance.

Users on annual Pro or Pro+ plans keep their existing pricing until the subscription expires. GitHub’s wording for what happens then: “At expiration, they will transition to Copilot Free with the option to upgrade to a paid monthly plan.” So the default landing spot is the free tier — 2,000 completions and 50 chat requests a month — with upgrading an active choice you have to make. There is a cheaper path if you act first: GitHub adds that subscribers “may convert to a monthly paid plan before their annual plan expires, and we will provide prorated credits for the remaining value of their annual plan.” Worth a calendar note if you bought an annual individual plan before June.

Where the metering actually differs

The prices are close enough across vendors that the unit of billing is the more useful comparison.

GitHub and JetBrains both call their unit an “AI Credit” and they are not the same size. GitHub’s billing docs put it at “1 AI credit = $0.01 USD”. JetBrains: “1 AI Credit is equivalent to USD 1.00 (charged in your local currency).” A hundred to one, same words. JetBrains also notes the credit is charged in your local currency, which is a geo-pricing mechanism worth reading twice if you’re not billing in dollars.

Kiro’s credit is neither. It’s “a unit of work in response to user prompts,” and Kiro says simple prompts can consume less than one credit. Add-on credits cost $0.04 each in packs from $5 to $100, and they expire 12 months from purchase. Enterprise overage bills at $0.04 per credit at month end. There’s also $20 credited toward your first upgrade if you signed up through social login or an AWS Builder ID.

Zed meters tokens directly. Pro is $10 with $5 of tokens included, and overage is billed at API list price plus 10%. That is the one arrangement here you can price a session against directly, because the unit is the model’s own rate card rather than a vendor-defined token. Zed’s free tier also allows unlimited use with your own API keys or with external agents including Claude Agent and Codex CLI, which is the relevant fact if you already pay for model access directly — see free AI APIs worth using and the Claude Code vs Codex CLI comparison for what you’d be plugging in. Zed’s two-week Pro trial includes $20 of token credits and unlimited accepted edit predictions. The pricing page says nothing either way about whether a card is needed to start it.

Cursor publishes a unit, but not on the page you land on. The pricing page sells the upper tiers as “3x Pro limits” and “20x Pro limits” with no absolute number to multiply — three times an unstated quantity. The docs page is the one with figures on it: Pro $20/mo, Pro Plus $60/mo, Ultra $200/mo, Start ₹649/mo tax inclusive for India, Teams Standard $40/user/mo and Teams Premium $120/user/mo, and it states “All prices are per million tokens.” So the meter is tokens, and the page linked from the nav is the vaguer of the two. Worth knowing before you try to compare Cursor to anything else here.

If you’re managing spend across agentic tools generally, the credit balance is usually not what runs out first — context handling is. That’s a separate problem and I’ve written about what actually eats a Claude Code context window.

What nobody publishes, and what I couldn’t read

These are two different categories and I’ve kept them separate on purpose.

Genuinely not published, after checking the obvious places:

• Cursor’s free-tier quota. Neither cursor.com/pricing nor the docs give a number. docs.cursor.com/account/pricing 308-redirects to cursor.com/docs and has no figure either. The page says “limited Agent requests” and that is the whole of it. Any article quoting a specific free-tier request count for Cursor is describing an older pricing era.
• GitHub Copilot annual pricing. Not shown for any individual tier on the plans page or the docs plans page. Two separate fetches of the plans page, no annual figure on either. A $100/year Pro figure circulates on aggregator sites; I could not find it on a GitHub-owned page.

Things I could not verify, which is not the same as saying they don’t exist:

• JetBrains AI Pro’s monthly price. jetbrains.com/ai/, the buy page, and the buy page’s plans anchor all returned navigation and header content only, most likely because the pricing table renders client-side. Only the FAQ subdomain gave me verbatim text, and only for Free and Ultimate. $10/month is widely quoted on aggregator sites. JetBrains almost certainly publishes the figure on a page my fetch couldn’t render, so treat the $10 as unconfirmed rather than as a claim about JetBrains.
• Devin Desktop’s pricing, per the rate limiting above.
• Trae’s annual prices. The pricing page has a “Save 25%” annual toggle that didn’t render dollar figures on either fetch. Trae’s free-tier reset period, overage behaviour and card requirement also weren’t in what I could read; the linked billing doc returned truncated content, and the pricing page has a FAQ entry called “What happens when I run out of usage?” whose answer I never got. Flagged for re-check, not reported as absent.
• Antigravity’s weekly rate limit. The pricing page says “basic weekly rate limits” for the free Individual tier without attaching a number to it. I only checked that page, so I can’t tell you whether the figure lives elsewhere in Google’s docs.
• PearAI’s pricing, which is why it isn’t in the table — see the note under it.
• Cursor’s Enterprise price, listed only as “Custom”. Every other tier is published, on the docs page rather than the pricing page — if you’re ever unsure about a Cursor price, cursor.com/docs/models-and-pricing is the one with numbers on it. (That docs page moved: cursor.com/docs/account/pricing now 308-redirects to it. Re-checked 5 September 2026 — the restructure moved the URL, not the numbers.)

Two dated Cursor changes are on that same docs page, and neither is reflected in the table above. The page says “Until September 7, 2026, Enterprise Auto pricing is set per million tokens, regardless of which model is used” — so if you are on Enterprise, the billing basis for Auto changes two days after this check, and I don’t know what it changes to. It also marks GPT-5.6 Sol as carrying “Promotional pricing through November 21, 2026”. Both are published by Cursor and dated by Cursor; I’m flagging them rather than guessing at the post-change numbers.

The Google pricing contradiction

Antigravity’s paid tiers have no price of their own. They attach to a Google AI Pro or Google AI Ultra consumer subscription, so the real cost lives on Google’s subscription page.

Fetching that page on 29 August returned Canadian dollars: Google AI Pro at 26.99 $CA/month, Google AI Ultra “starting at” 139.99 $CA/month, and a 279.99 $CA/month option billed as “20x higher usage limits vs AI Pro.” Those are the exact strings the page served.

Secondary sites report USD figures of $19.99 for Pro and $99.99 to $249.99 for Ultra. I can’t reconcile the two without pinning the request to a US location, which I can’t force. So: the CAD figures are what the vendor served, the USD figures are unconfirmed, and if you’re in the US you should check the page yourself before budgeting.

How this page is maintained

Everything above was fetched from the vendors’ own pages, not from other roundups — first on 29 August 2026, then re-fetched in part on 5 September. The dateline at the top says which figures got the second pass and which are still standing on the first, because “last verified” on a page like this should mean something specific rather than being a badge. I re-check it monthly. When a number moves, the verified date moves with it, and when a product disappears the way Windsurf and Void did, it gets a line saying so rather than quietly vanishing from the table.

Copilot’s promotional credits were the first item scheduled for this pass, and the section above now records what happened when the window closed. Four remain for the next one: JetBrains AI Pro from a browser rather than a fetch, Devin Desktop once the rate limit clears, Trae’s annual prices, and Antigravity’s weekly rate limit. Two more — PearAI’s pricing and Cursor’s Enterprise price — are vendor-blocked rather than merely unchecked, and may never resolve.