Coding Tool Prices Just Reset. Recheck Every Seat You Are Paying For

Our desk captured revised pricing pages from several coding vendors on 1 September 2026. Cursor lists Pro at $20/month for individuals and $40 per user per month for Teams, alongside a free Hobby plan and higher Pro+ and Ultra tiers. Replit Core is now $20/month, or $17/month billed annually — down from the $25/$20 figures our August capture recorded — with Replit Core Pro at $100/month, or $95 annually.

GitHub Copilot published a five-rung structure: Free at $0 with 2,000 completions a month, Pro at $10 per user with $15 in monthly credits, Pro+ at $39 with premium model access and $70 in credits, Max at $100 with $200 in credits, and Business at $19 per user with pooled credits.

The same window recorded two consolidation events: Continue was acquired by Cursor, with the open-source codebase remaining available, and the Roo Code extension was shut down and archived, pointing users to alternatives.

Read those figures again and notice what they have in common. Almost every paid tier now names a monthly credit balance next to the seat price. Copilot Pro is not "$10". It is "$10 and $15 of credits". Replit Core is not "$20". It is "$20 and $20 toward the most powerful models".

That is a meaningful change in how you should budget. Under seat pricing, ten developers cost ten times one developer, and the number is knowable in advance. Under credit pricing, ten developers cost whatever ten developers consume, and the plan price is only the floor.

In practice this is fine — often better — for teams with uneven usage, because a pooled balance lets the heavy user draw more without buying everyone a dearer seat. It is bad for teams who budget once a year and never look again, because the overage is invisible until it is not.

Continue being acquired and Roo Code being archived are not, on their own, buying decisions. But they are a reminder that this category is consolidating, and that a tool you standardised on can stop existing.

The practical response is unglamorous: know what your team's workflow depends on that is specific to one vendor. If the answer is "nothing, it is an editor plugin and the models are swappable", a shutdown is an afternoon of annoyance. If the answer is "our whole review pipeline calls their API", you have a dependency you should have priced.

Roo Code's archive notice pointing users to alternatives is the good version of this outcome. Not every shutdown is that tidy.

Pull the per-user activity report from every coding tool you pay for. Most vendors expose one; if yours does not, that is itself worth knowing at renewal.

Sort by usage and look at the bottom of the list. In most teams a meaningful share of seats show near-zero activity — people who trialled the tool, changed teams, or use a different editor. Those seats are pure loss and they renew silently.

Then look at the top of the list. If your heaviest users are consistently exhausting a credit balance, you are either on the wrong tier or you have found a workload that belongs on an API rather than inside a seat. Both are worth a conversation before renewal, and neither is visible from an invoice total.

Do not compare the seat prices. Compare cost per accepted change.

Take a week of real work. Count the changes the tool proposed that a human actually merged, and divide the fully-loaded monthly cost — seat plus consumed credits — by that number. A $40 seat that lands twice as many accepted changes is cheaper than a $20 seat, and no price sheet will tell you that.

This is also the only honest way to evaluate a free tier. Copilot Free at 2,000 completions a month is genuinely enough for some developers and useless for others, and the difference is not seniority — it is how much of their week is actually spent writing code the tool can help with.

Best default for an individual developer: start at the cheapest paid rung that includes credits — Copilot Pro at $10 with $15 of credits is a low-risk entry — and move up only when you hit the balance repeatedly.

Best for a team with uneven usage: a pooled-credit business plan, such as Copilot Business at $19 per user, so heavy users draw from a shared balance instead of everyone buying a premium seat.

Best for agent-heavy or build-heavy work: check Replit Core at $20 ($17 annually) or Cursor's higher individual tiers, and price the included model allowance as part of the seat rather than a bonus.

Avoid: renewing last year's seat count, and comparing plans on the seat price alone now that most of them bill credits underneath. Confirm current figures on each vendor's pricing page before you buy — plan structures in this category moved twice between August and September 2026.