What Developer Tools Actually Cost: A Checked Price Index

The short version

How this list was built

On 2026-08-12 we opened the official pricing page of every product below and wrote down what it showed. Not a vendor summary, not last year's blog post — the page itself, on that date. Where a figure could not be read from the official page we say so rather than filling the gap with a guess; 1 entry is marked that way.

Two things this list deliberately does not do. It does not convert currencies — where a vendor quotes in euros or localises by region, that is what you see, because the conversion is not ours to assert. And it does not rank anything: this is a reference table, not a recommendation.

Prices move. Anything here is a snapshot with a date attached, and the linked official page is always the authority. We would rather publish a dated figure you can check than an undated hedge that tells you nothing.

What changed recently

Checking every page on one day surfaced several changes that older comparisons still have wrong. These are the ones worth knowing before you budget:

• Hetzner raised cloud prices on 15 June 2026. The increases were uneven: dedicated-vCPU CCX13 went from €15.99 to €42.99 a month and shared-vCPU CPX22 from €7.99 to €19.49, while the entry CX23 moved only €3.99 → €5.49 and Arm CAX11 €4.49 → €5.99. Hetzner is still inexpensive at the entry tier, but on the larger plans the gap against other hosts is much narrower than 2025-era comparisons suggest.
• Windsurf is now part of Cognition. windsurf.com redirects to devin.ai. Pro moved from $15 to $20 in March 2026 when credits were replaced by daily and weekly quotas, and a $200/month Max tier appeared.
• Copy.ai has moved upmarket. Alongside a $29/month Chat plan, its go-to-market tiers now start at $1,000 a month. If you remember it as a cheap writing assistant, that is no longer the product being sold.
• Render dropped per-seat billing. Flat $25/month Pro and $499/month Scale plans replaced the old $19 and $29 per-member tiers.
• Sourcegraph's public pricing is enterprise-only, starting at $16K. The standalone individual Cody tiers are no longer sold there.
• Postman renamed its tiers to Solo, Team and Enterprise; the old Basic/Professional names persist in a lot of published comparisons.

None of this is exotic. It is simply what a single day of reading official pages turns up, and it is the reason we date every figure.

AI coding

Hosting

Dev tools

Passwords & security

Productivity

A note on regional pricing

One entry behaved differently from the rest: Notion served our request prices in Korean won rather than US dollars. That is not an error in the table — it is how the vendor localises, and it is a useful reminder that a single quoted figure can be wrong for your region even when it is right for whoever wrote it down.

Where you see a currency other than USD below, it is the currency the official page actually showed us. Check your own region before you plan a budget around it.

FAQ

How current are these prices?

Every figure was read from the vendor's official pricing page on 2026-08-12. Vendors change prices without notice, so treat the date as part of the number and follow the source link for the current figure.

Why are some prices in euros or won?

Because that is what the official page showed. We do not convert currencies — an exchange rate we picked would be our assertion, not the vendor's price. Some vendors also localise pricing by region, so your figure may differ.

Why are some entries marked 'not verified'?

Some vendors load prices dynamically per currency or account, and the figure could not be read from the public page. We would rather leave a gap than publish a number we did not see.

Are annual and monthly prices the same?

Usually not. Where a vendor advertises both, the note column says which billing term the figure belongs to. Annual billing is commonly 15–25% cheaper, but the discount varies enough that it is worth checking rather than assuming.