What changed,
and when we checked

The $200/mo tier previously tracked as "Max (20x)" is now explicitly named Ultra on claude.com/pricing, with usage described as 10x Pro per week (not 20x) and no 5-hour cap for verified accounts. Max ($100/mo) stays 5x Pro usage. Price unchanged for both tiers.

All 12 tracked tools re-checked against vendor pricing pages (Codex, added 2026-10-26, included for the first time). One tier rename found (Claude Code's $200/mo tier is now called Ultra, not Max 20x). Copilot's Business/Enterprise seat prices and JetBrains AI's pricing page could not be reconfirmed this cycle — their priceVerifiedAt dates were left unchanged rather than bumped without a check.

GitHub Copilot now bills in AI credits (1 credit = $0.01 of model usage, per token) instead of premium requests, effective 1 June 2026. Pro $10 includes 1,500 credits, Pro+ $39 includes 7,000, Max $100 includes 20,000; Business $19/user and Enterprise $39/user get pooled credits. Code completion stays unlimited on paid plans. Headline prices unchanged.

Restructured again, one month after the September change. New AI Free tier (unlimited completion, 3 credits/mo); AI Pro $10/mo (10 credits) and AI Ultimate $30/mo (35 credits). The $20 and $60 commercial seats are gone: organisations now buy shared credits at API price plus optional Air Governance (Basic free, Business $20/seat/mo, Enterprise custom). Verified on jetbrains.com/store/ai/.

All 11 tools re-verified against their vendors' own pages on 18–19 October — the first complete cycle since September. Five moved (Cursor, Copilot, JetBrains AI, Devin/Windsurf, Cline), one left the market (Tabnine), and Amazon Q's closure dates (no new signups since 15 May 2026, end of support 30 April 2027) were unchanged.

The $20 Pro plan is gone. Cursor's plans are now Free, Plus ($8/mo, Grok models only), Premium ($30/mo, the tier that can use Claude and GPT models, billed separately at API price), Super ($100), Ultra ($200) and Teams from $30/user. The cheapest plan with third-party frontier models went from $20 to $30.

No longer sold to new customers. tabnine.com now redirects to tricentis.com following Tricentis's acquisition (closed 30 July 2026); there is no public pricing or self-serve signup. Marked unavailable across the site.

Devin (formerly Windsurf) Teams is now $80/month base plus $40 per seat. Pro stays $20/mo and Max $200/mo. The product now lives at devin.ai.

Cline added an Enterprise tier with custom pricing alongside the free open-source extension.

2 of 11 tools re-checked this cycle — GitHub Copilot and Claude Code — both confirmed unchanged against their own pricing pages (github.com/features/copilot/plans and claude.com/pricing). The other 9 vendor pricing pages (Cursor, Windsurf/Devin Desktop, Tabnine, Aider, Cline, Amazon Q, Cody, JetBrains AI, Zed) were unreachable from this automation's network this month; their priceVerifiedAt dates are unchanged pending a working check.

Verified 2 previously unconfirmed compare-matrix capabilities: Aider MCP support (false — no client in its shipped source) and Amazon Q Developer MCP support (true — shipped in its open-source CLI). 5 remain unverified: Windsurf/JetBrains, Tabnine/MCP, Cody/MCP, JetBrains AI self-hosting, JetBrains AI/MCP — their vendor docs were unreachable from this environment and no open-source artifact could stand in for them.

Restructured into named AI tiers. The flat Personal $10 / Commercial $20 licence split is gone, replaced by AI Pro (personal $10/mo, commercial $20/user/mo) and AI Ultimate (personal $30/mo, commercial $60/user/mo). Verified against the store data on jetbrains.com/ai-ides/buy/ (codes AIP, AIPU).

Sourcegraph now publishes a contract floor where it previously showed no number: the Enterprise plan reads "Starting at $16K" minimum. Still enterprise-only — no individual tier exists at any price.

Re-verified the four tools carrying unresolved high-severity freshness findings — JetBrains AI, Cursor, Cody and Amazon Q — against each vendor's own pages. Two moved (JetBrains restructured its tiers, Sourcegraph published a price floor); Cursor's tiers and Amazon Q's end-of-support dates were unchanged.

Plan Mode's edit restriction stopped holding on 4.1.x. Users report Cline editing files while still in Plan Mode, without switching to Act Mode or asking (issue #13140, open since 10 Aug, 12 comments); 4.1.x also removed the flag that forbade writing in Plan Mode (#13107, closed 19 Aug without a fix confirmed in-thread). Our own testing predates 4.1.x, so this is reported from the tracker, not re-tested by us.

3 of 11 tools re-checked this cycle — GitHub Copilot, Aider and Cline — all unchanged. The other 8 vendor pricing pages (Cursor, Windsurf/Devin Desktop, Zed, Tabnine, Claude Code, Amazon Q, Cody, JetBrains AI) were unreachable from this automation's network this month; their priceVerifiedAt dates are unchanged pending a working check.

Verified 2 previously unconfirmed capabilities: Claude Code has team admin & SSO (Enterprise tier), Cody is no longer open source (its GitHub repo went private). 7 remain unverified.

Expanded what we track from 8 capability dimensions to 15, adding JetBrains support, self-hosting, open-source status, MCP support and team admin/SSO. Anything we could not confirm is marked unverified rather than guessed at.

All 11 tools re-checked against vendor pricing pages. No prices moved. Publisher affiliate status re-checked at the same time: still none active.

Renamed to Devin Desktop following Cognition's acquisition. Pricing unchanged; we still file it under Windsurf, the more-searched name.

Pro rose from $15/mo to $20/mo, and Teams from $30 to $40/user/mo.

Free tier changed from a 25-credit monthly allowance to a daily quota, and a $200/mo Max tier appeared.

Pro+ rose from $20/mo to $39/mo. Pro held at $10/mo.

Zed added to tracking — Personal free, Pro $10/mo, Business $30/seat/mo.