Real Costs ยท Real Value
AI Pricing Comparison
Real costs, real value. Find the best AI tools for your budget.
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Exceptional value
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Great for most users
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Fair value, situational
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Expensive, niche use
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ChatGPT
ChatbotA
Best for: General use, writing, coding
Free
GPT-4o mini
Basic access
Free
Plus
GPT-4o full
DALL-E 3
$20/mo
Pro
o1 Pro unlimited
$200/mo
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Claude
ChatbotA
Best for: Coding, long docs, analysis
Free
Sonnet (limited)
Projects
Free
Pro
Sonnet unlimited
200K context
$20/mo
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Midjourney
ImageB
Best for: Artistic high-quality images
Basic
200 images/mo
$10/mo
Standard
Unlimited relaxed
$30/mo
Pro
30h fast GPU
$60/mo
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Cursor
CodingS
Best for: Developers โ 10x productivity
Hobby
2000 completions/mo
Free
Pro
Unlimited completions
$20/mo
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Perplexity
ChatbotS
Best for: Research & real-time search
Free
5 Pro searches/day
Free
Pro
600 Pro searches/day
$20/mo
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ElevenLabs
AudioA
Best for: Voice cloning & TTS
Free
10K chars/mo
Personal only
Free
Starter
30K chars
Commercial
$5/mo
Creator
100K chars
$22/mo
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Runway
VideoC
Best for: Cinematic AI video, VFX
Basic
125 credits/mo
Watermark
Free
Standard
625 credits
$15/mo
Pro
2250 credits
$35/mo
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Suno AI
MusicS
Best for: Complete song creation from text
Free
50 credits/day
Non-commercial
Free
Pro
2500 credits/mo
Commercial
$10/mo
Premier
10000 credits/mo
$30/mo
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Canva AI
ProductivityA
Best for: Non-designers, social media
Free
Limited AI gen
Free
Pro
Magic Studio unlimited
$15/mo
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DeepSeek
ChatbotS
Best for: Developers, math & reasoning tasks
Free
V3 & R1 full access
Open source
Free
API
Per 1M tokens
Cheapest frontier
$0.14/mo
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GitHub Copilot
CodingA
Best for: VS Code / JetBrains developers
Free
2000 completions/mo
Free
Pro
Unlimited + PR reviews
$10/mo
Business
Per seat/mo
$19/mo
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Notion AI
ProductivityB
Best for: Teams already on Notion
AI Add-on
Writing assistant
Summaries
$10/mo