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Claude Code pricing
No. Claude Code has no free plan; the cheapest paid plan is $20/mo.
Claude Code's entry plan is the 3rd cheapest of the 6 coding & dev tools we price, by the least a year costs on each; Codex is lowest at $96 a year (listed monthly price times 12). Figures last confirmed 23 Aug 2026.
Plans
- Free access
- None: the free Claude.ai plan does not include Claude Code, only a small one-time API credit on a new Console account
- Entry paid plan
- $20/mo (Claude Pro, $17/mo billed annually), shares a 5-hour rolling + weekly usage pool with Claude.ai chat
- Bills in
- subscription with soft usage caps; optional per-token overage or a fully separate pay-as-you-go API path
- Cost per year
- $204 a year billed annually ($240 a year billed monthly) on the entry plan
Claude Code against the cheapest coding & dev tools
Entry plans only, ranked by the least a year costs on each: the annual-billed price where the vendor offers one, otherwise the monthly price times 12. The last column compares like with like: annual billing with annual billing when both tools offer it, otherwise the monthly price times 12 for both. Per-user and flat prices are not subtracted from each other.
| Tool | Free plan | Entry | Per year | A year vs Claude Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 CodexsecondaryTry | Limited | $8/mo | $96listed monthly price times 12 | $144 lessboth at the monthly price times 12 |
 GitHub CopilotTry | Yes | $10/mo | $120 per userlisted monthly price times 12 | per user vs flat |
 Claude Code | No | $20/mo | $204billed annually | this tool |
 ReplitTry | Yes | $17/mo | $204billed annually | sameboth billed annually |
 CursorTry | Yes | $20/mo | $240listed monthly price times 12 | sameboth at the monthly price times 12 |
 Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)secondaryTry | Yes | $20/mo | $240listed monthly price times 12 | sameboth at the monthly price times 12 |
Is Claude Code free?
No. Claude Code has no free plan; the cheapest paid plan is $20/mo. None: the free Claude.ai plan does not include Claude Code, only a small one-time API credit on a new Console account.
How much does Claude Code cost?
Claude Code's cheapest paid plan is $20/mo, which comes to $204 a year billed annually ($240 a year billed monthly). Plan detail: $20/mo (Claude Pro, $17/mo billed annually), shares a 5-hour rolling + weekly usage pool with Claude.ai chat.
Verified · source: claude.com, code.claude.com, code.claude.com
HTTP 200, plain server-rendered HTML with real dollar figures present (e.g. $0, $1, $10, $100, $125 appear in the raw markup for the various Claude plan/usage tiers); Page covers Free/Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise plans, which is the pricing basis Claude Code (bundled with Claude subscriptions/API) inherits. 2026-08-22 pass: pricing unchanged; confirmed Concise output style shipped in v2.1.237 (Aug 20, 2026) via Anthropic's official changelog. 2026-08-23 pass: direct fetch of the official output-styles doc confirmed the built-in Learning style (Insights plus TODO(human) markers) and that the standalone /output-style command was removed in v2.1.91, replaced by /config.
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