AI builder price index · October 2026 · Edition 1

AI builder price index: October 2026

What 42 AI builder tools cost to start, as of 2026-10-21. Every sourced price below is copied from the tool's official pricing page, with the date we checked it.

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Method: headless fetch of each official pricing page, stored dollar amounts matched against the page text, flagged pages read by hand. We list the starting price as published, not a negotiated or promo rate. Affiliate status never affects inclusion or order (tables are alphabetical). This is the first edition, so month-over-month changes start with the November edition.

AI coding tools

ToolStarting priceSourceChecked
Bolt.newFree; Pro $18/mo billed annuallyofficial2026-10-21
CursorFree; paid from $8/mo (Plus, Grok models only)official2026-10-21
FlutterFlowFree (2 projects); Basic $39/moofficial2026-10-21
LovableFree plan (5 daily credits); Pro from $25/mo (100 credits) or $250/yrofficial2026-10-21
ReplitCore from $18/mo billed annually ($20 monthly)official2026-10-21
v0 (Vercel)Free (7 messages/day); paid from $30/user/moofficial2026-10-21
WindsurfFree; Pro $20/mo; Max $200/moofficial2026-10-21

Agents

ToolStarting priceSourceChecked
CrewAIBasic plan free; Enterprise customofficial2026-10-21
E2BHobby free ($100 one-time credit); Pro $150/mo + usageofficial2026-10-21
Google ADKFree open-source kit (Apache-2.0)official2026-10-21
LangGraphFree open-source library (MIT); LangSmith Plus $39/seat/moofficial2026-10-21
LettaFree; Pro $20/moofficial2026-10-21
MakeFree (1,000 credits/mo); Core from $9/mo; Pro from $16/mo; Team from $29/mo (each starting at 10,000 credits/mo)official2026-10-21
MastraFree open-source framework; Mastra Cloud Teams $250/moofficial2026-10-21
n8nCommunity Edition free (self-hosted); Starter 20€/mo and Pro 50€/mo, billed annually (hosted by n8n); Business 667€/mo billed annually (self-hosted)official2026-10-21
OpenAI Agents SDKFree open-source SDK (MIT); model usage billed separatelyofficial2026-10-21
Vercel AI SDKFree open-source libraryofficial2026-10-21
ZapierFree; Professional from $19.99/moofficial2026-10-21

Design & assets

ToolStarting priceSourceChecked
ElevenLabsFree; Starter $6/moofficial2026-10-21
FramerFree; Basic $10/mo (yearly billing)official2026-10-21
MidjourneyPrice not verified yetofficial site—
RecraftPrice not verified yetofficial site—

Models & APIs

ToolStarting priceSourceChecked
Anthropic APIPrice not verified yetofficial site—
Fal.aiPay per use; H100 GPUs from $2.49/hrofficial2026-10-21
Google AI StudioFree tier; paid Gemini API is pay-as-you-goofficial2026-10-21
GroqPrice not verified yetofficial site—
OpenAIPrice not verified yetofficial site—
OpenRouterFree tier (25+ free models); pay-as-you-go with 5.5% platform feeofficial2026-10-21
ReplicatePay per use, e.g. FLUX schnell $3 per 1,000 imagesofficial2026-10-21
RunPodPer-second GPU billing, e.g. H100 PCIe $2.89/hrofficial2026-10-21
Together AIPay per token, e.g. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash $0.30/1M inputofficial2026-10-21

Shipping

ToolStarting priceSourceChecked
ClerkFree; Pro $25/mo ($20/mo billed annually)official2026-10-21
ExpoSDK free (MIT); EAS Free $0, Starter $19/moofficial2026-10-21
FirebaseFree Spark plan; Blaze pay-as-you-goofficial2026-10-21
Lemon SqueezyNo monthly fee; 5% + 50¢ per transactionofficial2026-10-21
NetlifyFree; Personal $9/moofficial2026-10-21
PostHogFree every month (1M analytics events, 5K recordings); then pay-as-you-goofficial2026-10-21
RailwayFree ($1/mo credit); Hobby $5/moofficial2026-10-21
ResendFree (3,000 emails/mo, 100/day); Pro $20/mo for 50,000official2026-10-21
StripeNo monthly fee; 2.9% + 30¢ per domestic card transactionofficial2026-10-21
SupabaseFree; Pro from $25/moofficial2026-10-21
VercelHobby free; Pro $20/moofficial2026-10-21

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