AI Coding Plans

Coding Plans

Cursor

Free For 1 Year for Students
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$20/month after that
Use any model you want. Anthropic, ChatGPT, GLM, KimiK2.5, Google Gemini etc.

GitHub Copilot

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FREE
Pros: Use most major models; Works in GitHub.
Cons: Not as "smart" or useful as Cursor, or other CLI's like Claude Code and Codex

Gemini

FREE
Gemini CLI

Claude Code

$20/month
Sonnet 4.5 - $3/Million input $6/Million output
Haiku 4.5 - $1/m input $5/m output

Note

Out of all the plans, you get the least usage per month from Claude Code on the $20 plan

GLM Coding Plan

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$6/month (message me for 10% off) (boasts 3x more usage than $20 Claude Code plan)
GLM 4.7 - $0.6/m input $2.2/m output
Set up with the following:

#!/bin/bash
export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN='your-api-key-here'
export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL='https://api.z.ai/api/anthropic'
export API_TIMEOUT_MS='3000000'
claude "$@"

Make a file in ~/.local/bin/ called claudez
run chmod +x ~/.local/bin/claudez
Now run claudez to run GLM 4.7 in Claude Code

Kimi K2.5

$19/month
Kimi CLI Install Instructions
Kimi K2.5 - $0.1/m input $3/m output
To use in Claude Code, set up with the following:

#!/bin/bash
export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN='your-api-key'
export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL='https://api.kimi.com/coding/'
export ANTHROPIC_MODEL='moonshotai/kimi-k2.5'
export ANTHROPIC_SMALL_FAST_MODEL='moonshotai/kimi-k2.5'
claude "$@"

Make a file in ~/.local/bin/ called claudek
run chmod +x ~/.local/bin/claudek
Now run claudek to run Kimi K2.5 in Claude Code

ChatGPT

$20/month
Codex CLI

Note

You get a decent amount of usage on the $20 plan for ChatGPT

Features

ChatGPT, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor can all be set up to respond to PR's when you make one. You can also send messages to any one of them from your phone for it to do stuff.