AI assistant & model pricing
Updated · 30 comparisons
AI tools are the hardest category to price because the number on the plan is rarely the number that matters. A $20 subscription with a message cap, a $20 subscription with a token budget, and a $20 seat with "fair use" limits are three different products, and the limit is what you actually buy.
The questions the pricing page won't answer directly
What's the real usage limit? Consumer AI subscriptions cap usage — by messages per window, by a monthly credit balance, or by an unpublished rate limit that tightens under load. Two plans at the same price can differ by 5x in how much work you get done before you're throttled.
Is this priced per seat or per usage? Coding assistants and agents increasingly meter requests or "premium" model calls on top of a per-seat fee. A heavy user on a metered plan can cost more than three light users on a flat one.
What happens at the ceiling? Some tools slow you to a weaker model, some queue you, some charge overage, some just stop. That behaviour is part of the price.
Comparing them honestly
Estimate your actual weekly usage — messages, or agent runs, or premium model calls — and place yourself against each tool's limit at the tier you'd buy. The cheapest plan that doesn't throttle you is the real winner, and it's often not the cheapest sticker price. The comparisons below work through the common matchups with the current limits, each verified against the vendor's page and dated.
Comparisons in this guide
- Fireworks AI vs Modal: a straight‑forward price comparison Fireworks AI, Modal verified 2026-09-20
- Gamma vs Doppler: Which AI‑powered tool fits your budget and workflow? Gamma, Doppler verified 2026-09-18
- The AI browser shakeout: Comet went free, Atlas shut down, Dia stayed Mac-only Perplexity, The Browser Company, Google verified 2026-09-08
- Copilot vs Amazon Q Developer vs Gemini Code Assist: two of the three just got harder to buy GitHub, Amazon, Google verified 2026-09-08
- Veo 3.1 vs Kling 3 vs Seedance: AI video generation after Sora shut down Google, Kuaishou, ByteDance verified 2026-09-08
- Pinecone vs Weaviate vs Qdrant: vector database pricing for RAG (2026) Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant verified 2026-09-08
- Together AI vs Fireworks AI vs Groq: LLM inference pricing and speed Together AI, Fireworks AI, Groq verified 2026-09-20
- Langfuse vs LangSmith vs Helicone: LLM observability pricing Langfuse, LangChain, Helicone verified 2026-09-20
- Hugging Face vs Replicate vs Modal: where to run your models, priced Hugging Face, Replicate, Modal verified 2026-09-20
- Mistral Le Chat vs ChatGPT vs Claude: the European option, priced Mistral AI, OpenAI, Anthropic verified 2026-09-08
- DeepSeek vs ChatGPT vs Claude: is the cheap option good enough? (2026) DeepSeek, OpenAI, Anthropic verified 2026-09-07
- Suno vs Udio: AI music generation pricing (2026) Suno, Udio verified 2026-09-24
- Grok vs ChatGPT vs Gemini: what SuperGrok actually costs (2026) xAI, OpenAI, Google verified 2026-09-07
- Windsurf vs Cursor: after the acquisition drama, which AI editor? (2026) Codeium, Anysphere verified 2026-09-24
- Gamma vs Beautiful.ai: AI presentation pricing (and what happened to Tome) Gamma, Beautiful.ai verified 2026-09-19
- Claude Code vs Codex CLI vs Gemini CLI: the terminal coding agents, priced (2026) Anthropic, OpenAI, Google verified 2026-09-07
- Jasper vs Copy.ai vs Writesonic: what AI writing tools cost per seat (2026) Jasper, Copy.ai, Writesonic verified 2026-09-24
- NotebookLM vs ChatGPT Projects vs Claude Projects: which for research? (2026) Google, OpenAI, Anthropic verified 2026-09-07
- HeyGen vs Synthesia vs Descript: AI video pricing, three different workflows HeyGen, Synthesia, Descript verified 2026-09-24
- Otter vs Fireflies vs Fathom: AI meeting-notes pricing, free tiers compared Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai, Fathom verified 2026-09-24
- Granola vs Otter vs Fireflies: the bot-free meeting-notes app, priced Granola, Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai verified 2026-09-14
- Replit vs Bolt vs v0 vs Lovable: AI app-builder pricing (2026) Replit, StackBlitz, Vercel, Lovable verified 2026-09-06
- Claude vs ChatGPT for coding in 2026: which one, and when Anthropic, OpenAI verified 2026-09-07
- Perplexity Pro vs You.com vs Kagi: is a paid AI search engine worth it? Perplexity, You.com, Kagi verified 2026-09-03
- Midjourney vs Ideogram vs ChatGPT images: what AI image generation actually costs Midjourney, Ideogram, OpenAI verified 2026-09-03
- ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini: plans, limits and pricing (September 2026) OpenAI, Anthropic, Google verified 2026-09-01
- ElevenLabs vs Murf: AI voice pricing, and what happened to Play.ht ElevenLabs, Murf verified 2026-09-18
- Is ChatGPT Plus still worth $20 in 2026? OpenAI verified 2026-09-01
- Runway vs Pika vs Luma: AI video generation pricing (2026) Runway, Pika, Luma verified 2026-09-24
- ChatGPT Enterprise vs Claude for Work vs Gemini Enterprise: what a company actually pays OpenAI, Anthropic, Google verified 2026-09-03
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Every figure on these pages is checked against the provider's own pricing and dated. The complete machine-readable dataset is on the data page.