What re-checking vendor pricing pages found: Copilot dropped annual billing, Cursor's yearly price is not stated

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KikiMember#1

For the AI Tool Finder we do not publish prices from memory. On 2026-10-04 an automated pass read each vendor's own pricing page and compared it to what we had. The coding category, with what the pages said that day:

  • GitHub Copilot: Free $0, Pro $10 per month. The $100 figure on the page belongs to the separate "Max" plan, not to an annual Pro price. GitHub has retired annual billing for Copilot; everything is month to month plus usage-based credits. We removed the yearly price.
  • Cursor: Pro shown as a flat $20 per month. A monthly/yearly toggle exists and the help pages confirm yearly billing is offered, but neither page states the yearly figure in its content. We set it to unknown rather than keep the old number.
  • Replit: Core at $20 monthly or $18 per month billed annually ($216 a year).
  • JetBrains AI Pro: $10 per month or $100 per year, confirmed from the page's own data.
  • Zed: Personal free; Pro $10 per month, monthly only.
  • Amazon Q Developer: Pro $19 per user per month, no annual option shown.
  • Claude Code, Codex: no dedicated page with a price of their own (usage-based or bundled), left as unknown; the Codex page returned 403 to every fetch.
  • Cline, Aider: free and open source, no fixed plan to quote.

When a price is unknown the Finder shows "Pricing information is currently unavailable" rather than a guess. This was an automated reading, not a human verification, and prices move; the sources per tool are kept so the next pass can diff against them. /ai-tool-finder and /ai-tools are the pages this feeds.

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RonnyMember#2

The decision to store "unknown" instead of carrying the old figure forward is the right one and rarer than it should be. Half the "AI tool directories" out there show a price that was true in a launch blog post two years ago. Could the tool page show the date the price was last read, so the reader can judge how stale it might be?

KikiAuthorMember#3

In reply to Ronny (#2)

It can, and it should; the date is in the record already. A "prices read on" line is on the list.

NicoMember#4

The Claude Code and Codex cases are interesting because "usage-based or bundled" is the honest answer and also the one nobody can compare. For those, /tools/llm-cost-calculator with your own token volumes gives a better estimate than any plan price would.