18 providers and 50 plan tiers - GLM, MiniMax, Alibaba, Kimi, OpenCode Go, Cline Pass, Claude, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, CommandCode, StepFun, Kiro, Kilo Code, Devin, Replit, Meta Muse Code and Ollama Cloud - with real monthly pricing, 5-hour windows, weekly caps, models, and honest value-for-money recommendations. Officially documented limits are labeled as such; community-reported estimates are labeled too.
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We do not invent a fake 0-100 score. Credits, prompts, requests and dollar caps use different native units, so a generic formula would mislead. Pick your budget and primary workflow to reveal our verified Top Pick, Runner-up, and real tradeoffs.
GLM Lite is the documented quota-per-dollar pick at this budget: 2,000 credits per 5 hours and 10,000 per week at $18, with off-peak billed at half credits. OpenCode Go remains the cheaper multi-model gateway.
One $10 key that works with any coding agent
You are buying GLM-5.3 volume, not Opus-class quality. Pair it with a $20 Western plan if the hard problems still need Claude or GPT.
Editorial pick, not a numeric score. Limits stay in native units in the table.
$10 for about $70 of monthly credits and published 5-hour / weekly dollar windows. $10/mo
2,000 credits per 5 hours at $18, half-price off-peak, Claude Code compatible. $18/mo
Sonnet-class Claude Code. Weekly hours are the real limit, not the marketing window. $20/mo
Monthly credits, unlimited base model, cheapest mainstream IDE plan. $10/mo
Common Reddit combo: Copilot Pro ($10) for daily completions plus GLM Lite ($18) or Muse Everyday ($5) for agent volume. GLM Lite is the volume half of that stack. $18/mo
Sorted by monthly price. Every limit is shown in its native unit because credits, prompts, requests and dollar caps are not directly comparable.
| Plan | Price / mo | 5-hour window | Weekly | Monthly | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GLM Coding Plan Lite★ Value Pick $12.60/mo billed annually | $18 | 2,000 credits | 10,000 credits | No hard cap | Cheapest usable entry for Claude Code-style workflows | Official page → |
GLM Coding Plan Pro★ Value Pick $50.40/mo billed annually | $72 | 12,000 credits | 60,000 credits | No hard cap | Full-time agentic coding on GLM-5.3 | Official page → |
GLM Coding Plan Max $112/mo billed annually | $160 | 28,000 credits | 140,000 credits | No hard cap | Heavy parallel agent sessions | Official page → |
MiniMax Token Plan Plus★ Value Pick monthly only | $22 | Token quota (undisclosed) | Weekly token window | No rollover | Multimodal: coding plus image and speech models | Official page → |
MiniMax Token Plan Max monthly only | $55 | Token quota (undisclosed) | Weekly token window | No rollover | 4-5 parallel agents on MiniMax M3 | Official page → |
MiniMax Token Plan Ultra monthly only | $132 | Token quota (undisclosed) | Weekly token window | No rollover | 6-7 parallel agents, heaviest MiniMax workload | Official page → |
Alibaba Model Studio Coding Plan Pro★ Value Pick Lite tier closed to new orders Mar 2026 | $50 | 6,000 requests | 45,000 requests | 90,000 requests | Multi-model access: Qwen + GLM + Kimi + MiniMax in one key | Official page → |
Kimi Code Andante CNY 49/mo, approx. USD | $7 | Credit pool (shared) | Kimi Code capped at 5 hours per week | No hard cap | Cheapest official entry to Kimi coding models | Official page → |
Kimi Code Moderato CNY 99/mo, approx. USD | $14 | Credit pool (shared) | Kimi Code capped at 5 hours per week | No hard cap | Kimi K3 access at budget price | Official page → |
Kimi Code Allegretto CNY 199/mo, approx. USD | $28 | Credit pool (shared) | Kimi Code capped at 5 hours per week | No hard cap | Kimi K3 with full 1M context + HighSpeed tier | Official page → |
OpenCode Go Go★ Value Pick $5 first month; Zen is a separate pay-as-you-go balance | $10 | $3-12 of usage (20% of each model monthly cap) | 50% of monthly cap per model | $15-60 per model, ~28 open models | One $10 key that works with any coding agent | Official page → |
Cline Pass Standard $9.99/mo, $4.99 first month | $10 | Undisclosed (community est. ~20% of monthly) | Undisclosed | Undisclosed (community est. ~$50 API equivalent) | Open-weight models (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi) inside Cline | Official page → |
Claude Pro Pro★ Value Pick $17/mo billed annually | $20 | ~10-40 prompts (user-reported) | 40-80 Sonnet hours | No hard cap | Frontier quality coding with Claude Code on a budget | Official page → |
Claude Max Max 5x★ Value Pick 5x Pro capacity | $100 | ~50-200 prompts (user-reported) | 140-280 Sonnet hours + 15-35 Opus hours | No hard cap | Daily agentic work with Opus access | Official page → |
Claude Max Max 20x 20x Pro capacity | $200 | ~200-800 prompts (user-reported) | 240-480 Sonnet hours + 24-40 Opus hours | No hard cap | Professional heavy Claude Code usage | Official page → |
ChatGPT Plus + Codex Plus★ Value Pick 5-hour limit restored Aug 24, 2026 | $20 | Unpublished rolling quota | Unpublished weekly cap | No hard cap | GPT-5.6 Codex local + cloud tasks in one subscription | Official page → |
ChatGPT Pro + Codex Pro★ Value Pick Highest Codex allowances | $200 | Unpublished rolling quota | Unpublished weekly cap | No hard cap | All-day Codex with the highest OpenAI ceilings | Official page → |
GitHub Copilot Pro Pro★ Value Pick Usage-based credits since June 1, 2026 | $10 | No 5-hour window (monthly credits) | No weekly cap | Credit allowance + unlimited base model | Cheapest mainstream plan; completion-first workflows | Official page → |
GitHub Copilot Pro+ Pro+★ Value Pick Usage-based credits since June 1, 2026 | $39 | No 5-hour window (monthly credits) | No weekly cap | ~3,900 credits | Premium model access inside VS Code and github.com | Official page → |
GitHub Copilot Max Max★ Value Pick Usage-based credits since June 1, 2026 | $100 | No 5-hour window (monthly credits) | No weekly cap | ~10,000 credits + $200 total credit allowance | Heavy Copilot agent users who want priority access | Official page → |
Cursor Pro Pro★ Value Pick Includes ~$20/month usage credits | $20 | No 5-hour window | No weekly cap | ~$20 credits, then API price +20% | IDE-native agent with any model | Official page → |
Cursor Pro+ Pro+★ Value Pick Higher included usage | $60 | No 5-hour window | No weekly cap | Billed usage beyond credits | New-model day-one access and more headroom | Official page → |
Cursor Ultra Ultra About 20x Pro Agent limits | $200 | No 5-hour window | No weekly cap | Billed usage beyond credits | All-day Cursor Agent on frontier models | Official page → |
CommandCode Go Go $10 of monthly credits included | $1 | $3 of usage | $6 of usage | $10 credits (~15K requests) | The cheapest real coding plan - open-model volume work | Official page → |
CommandCode GOAT GOAT★ Value Pick $70 of monthly credits included | $10 | $14 of usage | $35 of usage | $70 credits (~75K requests) | 33 models with per-model allowances at $10 | Official page → |
CommandCode Pro Pro★ Value Pick $80 of monthly credits included | $20 | $16 of usage | $40 of usage | $80 credits (~100K requests) | Open + premium models with per-model allowances | Official page → |
CommandCode Max Max 10x★ Value Pick Separate premium/standard splits | $100 | $45 of usage | $90 of usage | $150 credits ($100 premium + $150 standard splits) | Heavy mixed open/closed model workload | Official page → |
CommandCode Max Max 20x Separate premium/standard splits | $200 | $90 of usage | $180 of usage | $300 credits ($200 premium + $300 standard splits) | Heaviest CommandCode tier, ~370K requests | Official page → |
StepFun Step Plan Flash Mini $6.99/mo; credits expire monthly | $7 | No time window | No weekly cap | 400M credits | Cheapest no-window plan; Step-3.x Flash models | Official page → |
StepFun Step Plan Flash Plus★ Value Pick $9.99/mo; quarterly $26.99 | $10 | No time window | No weekly cap | 1,600M credits | Priority API rates and support | Official page → |
StepFun Step Plan Flash Pro★ Value Pick Quarterly $79 | $29 | No time window | No weekly cap | 8,000M credits | Full-time coding on Step-3.7/3.5 Flash | Official page → |
StepFun Step Plan Flash Max★ Value Pick Quarterly $269 | $99 | No time window | No weekly cap | 40,000M credits | Maximum StepFun quota without rate windows | Official page → |
Kiro (AWS) Free★ Value Pick 50 credits/mo, no add-ons | $0 | Rolling windows (sizes unpublished) | Weekly limit (unpublished) | 50 credits | Trying the Kiro spec-driven IDE agent | Official page → |
Kiro (AWS) Pro Students get 1,000 credits/mo free for a year | $20 | Rolling windows (sizes unpublished) | Weekly limit (unpublished) | 1,000 credits | Spec-driven AWS-stack development | Official page → |
Kiro (AWS) Pro+★ Value Pick Free for a year via AWS Startups | $40 | Rolling windows (sizes unpublished) | Weekly limit (unpublished) | 2,000 credits | Daily Kiro use with agent Auto mode | Official page → |
Kiro (AWS) Pro Max Power tier at $200 adds 10,000 credits | $100 | Rolling windows (sizes unpublished) | Weekly limit (unpublished) | 5,000 credits | Heavy Kiro workloads | Official page → |
Kilo Code Starter Bonus credits on top of at-cost usage | $19 | No published window | No published cap | Starter credit pack (bonus credits) | Open-source VS Code agent, 500+ models at cost | Official page → |
Kilo Code Pro★ Value Pick Bigger bonus credits | $49 | No published window | No published cap | Pro credit pack (bonus credits) | Regular Kilo users who want bonus credit margin | Official page → |
Kilo Code Max★ Value Pick Maximum bonus credits; Teams $15/user/mo | $199 | No published window | No published cap | Max credit pack (bonus credits) | Power users of the KiloClaw agentic stack | Official page → |
Devin (Cognition) Free Free SWE-2 model included | $0 | No 5-hour window (daily token limits) | No weekly cap | Basic access | Trying the autonomous Devin agent | Official page → |
Devin (Cognition) Pro★ Value Pick Overage billed in ACUs at $2.25 each | $20 | Daily token limits (unpublished) | No weekly cap | Marketed as unlimited; daily token caps apply | Parallel autonomous coding sessions | Official page → |
Devin (Cognition) Max★ Value Pick Teams: $80 base + $40/seat | $200 | Daily token limits (unpublished) | No weekly cap | Highest self-serve Devin allowance | Heavy Devin fleet usage | Official page → |
Replit Core Core★ Value Pick $18/mo billed annually | $20 | Effort-based metering per 6-hour cycle | No weekly cap | $20 of Agent usage credits included | Build-and-deploy in one platform | Official page → |
Replit Pro Pro★ Value Pick $90/mo billed annually | $100 | Higher effort ceilings | No weekly cap | Expanded Agent limits + compute | Shipping production apps on Replit | Official page → |
Meta Muse Code Everyday★ Value Pick GA September 2026 | $5 | Roughly 10-50 requests (user-reported) | No published weekly cap | No hard cap | Cheapest frontier-lab coding plan, Muse Spark models | Official page → |
Meta Muse Code High Usage Roughly triples Everyday limits | $15 | ~3x Everyday requests (user-reported) | No published weekly cap | No hard cap | Bigger code-heavy projects at $15 | Official page → |
Meta Muse Code Power Usage★ Value Pick Contributor tier trades data sharing for big discounts | $50 | Highest Muse Code allowance | No published weekly cap | No hard cap | Heavy Muse Spark 1.3 agentic coding | Official page → |
Ollama Cloud Free Daily quotas | $0 | Daily quota instead of 5-hour window | No weekly cap | Daily quotas for experimentation | GPU-free open-model experimentation | Official page → |
Ollama Cloud Pro $200/year; 3 cloud models at once | $20 | Dollar-denominated monthly usage | No weekly cap | Set dollar amount, ~50x free-tier usage | Running big open models without a GPU | Official page → |
Ollama Cloud Max New subscriptions paused at times due to capacity; Team $500/mo with $1,000 usage | $100 | Dollar-denominated monthly usage | No weekly cap | Higher dollar allowance | Maximum cloud open-model throughput | Official page → |
Claude, Devin, Kiro and Meta Muse Code window sizes are user-reported or unpublished by their vendors. StepFun, Kilo Code, CommandCode credits and Replit credits are officially documented. Kimi prices converted from CNY at ~7.2; StepFun shown rounded from $6.99/$9.99.
Models, supported tools, and the fine print that pricing pages leave out.
Models: GLM-5.3, GLM-5.3-Flash (older GLM versions auto-route to these)
Tools: Claude Code, Cline, OpenCode, Codex, ZCode, Kilo Code, 20+ tools
Models: MiniMax M3, M2.7, plus image and speech models on one shared quota
Tools: Claude Code, Cursor, TRAE, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent
Models: Qwen 3.7-Plus, Qwen 3.6-Plus, Kimi K2.5, GLM-5, MiniMax-M2.5, Qwen3-Coder - four providers behind one key
Tools: Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, Codex, Qwen Code, Cline, Kilo CLI, Cherry Studio, 15+ tools
Models: Kimi K3 (Moderato+; 1M context at Allegretto+), kimi-for-coding (K2.8 Preview, all tiers), K2.7 Code HighSpeed (Allegretto+)
Tools: Kimi Code CLI and VS Code, Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, JetBrains and Zed via ACP
Models: About 28 open models behind one key: Kimi K3, GLM-5.3, MiniMax M3, Qwen3.8, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Grok 4.6, GPT-5.6 Luna and more
Tools: OpenCode, Claude Code, Codex, ZCode, Kilo Code, Hermes, Pi, jcode
Models: Open-weight models (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi) served by Cline infrastructure
Tools: Cline extension and Cline CLI
Models: Sonnet 4.6 (Pro+), Opus 4.6 (Max tiers)
Tools: Claude Code CLI, Claude app, Claude in Chrome
Models: GPT-5.6 series including GPT-5.6 Codex
Tools: Codex CLI, Codex cloud, IDE extension, ChatGPT app
Models: GPT-5 base model unlimited on paid tiers; premium models draw credits
Tools: VS Code, JetBrains, github.com, Copilot CLI, agent mode
Models: Frontier and open models selectable per request (Auto mode available)
Tools: Cursor IDE, Cursor CLI
Models: 33 models mixing open and premium: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, MiniMax M3, MiMo V2.5, GPT-5.6 Luna, Gemini 3.7 Flash, plus free tiers (LongCat 2.0, Laguna S 2.1, Ling 3.0 Flash)
Tools: CommandCode CLI, Claude Code-compatible endpoint, Studio
Models: Step-3.7-Flash (flagship multimodal), Step-3.5-Flash + 2603 agent variant, speech models, smart routing
Tools: Claude Code, OpenClaw, Cursor, Trae, Cline, Kilo Code, Roo Code via a dedicated endpoint
Models: Claude models via AWS Bedrock (spec-driven development agent)
Tools: Kiro IDE (VS Code fork), agent Auto mode, spec-to-code workflows
Models: 500+ models across 60+ providers, sold at cost (no markup)
Tools: Open-source VS Code extension, Kilo CLI, KiloClaw agentic stack
Models: Devin agent on premium models (Claude-class); free tier includes the SWE-2 model
Tools: Devin web app, Slack integration, Devin API/SDK, Windsurf (Devin Desktop)
Models: Replit Agent on frontier models, effort-based metering by task complexity
Tools: Replit workspace, Agent, deployments (build-and-host in one)
Models: Muse Spark 1.3 / 1.2, tuned for long-horizon agentic coding
Tools: Muse Code CLI/agent, SDK for custom agents, multi-session workflows, rewind
Models: The Ollama open-model catalog served from Ollama datacenter GPUs
Tools: Ollama CLI/API with cloud models, works with any Ollama-compatible client
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Every claim on this page that vendors do not document comes from threads like these. Read them - sentiments are summarized, links go to the source.
Long-running thread on how the 5-hour and weekly caps land in practice after the May 2026 doubling. Recurring theme: weekly Opus hours are the binding constraint for Max users.
Read the thread →Top comment calls Copilot at the higher tier "pretty amazing value - not as good as Claude Code, but certainly good enough with decent prompting." Common stack: $10 Copilot + a $20 Claude or ChatGPT sub.
Read the thread →Users report MiniMax moved to a token system with weekly windows layered on top of 5-hour windows, and that heavy sustained usage got noticeably tighter after the switch.
Read the thread →Some users feel the cheap tier limits do not stretch as far as advertised - one puts real cost near "$30 for about 12 hours of work" - while others find the multi-model Pro plan worthwhile.
Read the thread →Community reverse-engineers Cline Pass quotas since none are published: estimate of a 5-hour window around 20% of the monthly allowance, with reports of hitting caps without warning.
Read the thread →Plus users document the 5-hour Codex window draining in roughly an hour on serious repositories, arguing the framing overstates what a window buys. OpenAI later restored limits for Plus in Aug 2026 after a temporary removal.
Read the thread →Most plans here (GLM, Alibaba, Claude, Codex) use a rolling 5-hour bucket that starts when you send your first prompt and refills 5 hours later. Others meter differently: OpenCode Go and Cline Pass convert a monthly dollar cap into rolling windows, Kimi Code caps coding at 5 hours per week, and Copilot and Cursor use monthly credits with no 5-hour concept at all. That is why the table keeps limits in their native units instead of pretending they are comparable.
Both, and the page labels which is which. GLM credits, Alibaba requests, MiniMax agent counts and OpenCode Go dollar caps are officially documented. Claude prompt counts, Cline Pass quotas and Codex window sizes are community-reported estimates because those vendors do not publish exact numbers. Anything marked "user-reported" should be treated as directional.
CommandCode Go at $1/month ($10 of monthly credits, $3 per 5-hour window) is the cheapest paid plan on this page and a popular budget add-on to a $20 Western subscription. At $5-10 you add Meta Muse Code Everyday, Kimi Code Andante (about $7, CNY-billed), OpenCode Go ($10, works with any agent) and Cline Pass ($9.99, Cline only). Reddit consensus favors OpenCode Go for agent flexibility, with the caveat that top models like GLM-5.3 burn its per-model cap fastest.
The recurring Reddit answer splits by priority: Claude Code wins on quality if you accept the weekly caps (Max tiers), GLM Coding Plan wins on raw quota per dollar, and GitHub Copilot wins for steady daily use because it has no 5-hour window at all. The budget combo many describe is a cheap Chinese plan for volume plus a $20 Western plan for the hard problems.
Yes - that is the main selling point. GLM Coding Plan, MiniMax Token Plan, Alibaba Coding Plan and Kimi Code all expose Anthropic-compatible endpoints that Claude Code accepts, so you keep the workflow and swap the model and the bill. OpenCode Go also validates Claude Code as a supported client.
Four shifts matter: MiniMax added weekly quota windows on top of 5-hour resets; GitHub Copilot replaced premium requests with usage-based credits on June 1; Anthropic doubled 5-hour limits on May 6 and removed peak-hour reductions; and OpenAI removed, then restored (Aug 24) the 5-hour Codex limit for Plus. Pricing promotions from 2025 (like GLM launch pricing) have largely ended.
Annual billing changes the price, not the limits - GLM drops to about $12.60/mo for Lite with the 30% discount, and Claude Pro drops to $17/mo. One exception to watch: Alibaba states its coding plan is non-refundable and slot-limited, so annual commitments there carry more risk if your usage pattern changes.
There is no single winner because credits, prompts, requests and dollar caps are not the same unit. For volume per dollar we pick GLM Lite at $18 or CommandCode GOAT at $10. For frontier quality at $20 we pick Claude Pro. For steady all-month use with no 5-hour window we pick GitHub Copilot Pro at $10. Use the value finder on this page to match budget and job; the vote tally is the crowd check, not a score.
Prices and limits are pulled from official vendor documentation (Z.ai devpack docs, Alibaba Cloud Model Studio docs, MiniMax platform docs, Kimi Code docs, opencode.ai docs, Anthropic, OpenAI, GitHub and Cursor pricing pages) and re-verified at least monthly - last on September 13, 2026. Where a vendor publishes no numbers, we say "undisclosed" instead of inventing one, and where limits are community-reported we link the source thread. Value-for-money picks are editorial (budget + job), not a composite score, because the units are not comparable. The vote tally is stored on our own servers with one vote per visitor. Nothing here is sponsored; we do not use affiliate links.
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