This is the ledger behind every plan we assign: the exact starting price for each tool, checked against the vendor's own pricing page, with a dated record of what changed. No blended averages, no stale screenshots.
Pulled straight from our dated audit files — not a summary, the actual verification notes.
Sonnet 5 API pricing: the scheduled Sep 1, 2026 increase from $2/$10 to $3/$15 per MTok has been CANCELLED — $2/$10 is now the permanent standard rate, not introductory pricing. Subscription tiers (Free/Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise) unchanged.
Sonnet 5 API rate $2/$10 per MTok is now the permanent standard rate (previously scheduled to increase to $3/$15 on Sep 1, 2026 — that increase has been cancelled). Subscription tiers unchanged.
Added GLM-5.3-Flash (new open-weight model released Aug 26, 2026, MIT license, 1M context, ~10x cheaper than GLM-5.2 per Z.ai's claim; exact API rate TBD). GLM Coding Plan Lite/Pro/Max and per-token model rates otherwise unchanged, though a minor Pro/Max price discrepancy ($80/$168 vs one tracker's $72/$160) is flagged for re-check next run.
AVAILABILITY EXPANDED: stored plans say Grok Bot requires SuperGrok Heavy / Cursor Ultra / Teams Premium. Since 2026-08-26 it is included with ALL SuperGrok, Cursor Pro and Cursor Teams plans. The live site tells readers to buy the top tier for something Cursor Pro at $20/mo now includes.
Every tool we track, sorted by category, with its own verification date.
| Tool | Category | Starting price | Current offer | Price checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | General AI assistants | Free plan | — | Aug 27, 2026 |
| Claude | General AI assistants | Free plan | — | Sep 11, 2026 |
| Gemini | General AI assistants | Free plan | — | Aug 27, 2026 |
| Claude Code | Coding AI | $20/mo | — | Sep 24, 2026 |
| Cline | Coding AI | Free plan | ClinePass add-on: $9.99/mo (promo pricing sometimes lower for the first month) for 2-5x usage on GLM-5.2, DeepSeek, Kimi and Qwen | Aug 8, 2026 |
| Codex | Coding AI | Free plan | — | Sep 11, 2026 |
| Command Code | Coding AI | $1/mo | Go plan entry price $1/mo; GOAT plan $10/mo for ~$70 of usage (7x multiplier) across 29+ open and closed models, incl. DeepSeek V4 Pro at a 4x-value discount | Aug 12, 2026 |
| Cursor | Coding AI | Free plan | — | Sep 11, 2026 |
| GitHub Copilot | Coding AI | Free plan | — | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Jules | Coding AI | Free plan | — | Aug 6, 2026 |
| Oh My Pi | Coding AI | Free plan | — | Sep 2, 2026 |
| OpenCode | Coding AI | Free plan | OpenCode Go: first month $5, then $10/mo | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Qwen Cloud | Coding AI | $6/mo | Lite $6/mo, Standard $18/mo (down from $25) with 10,000 credits/7 days, Pro $68/mo | Aug 8, 2026 |
| Replit | Coding AI | Free plan | Core: Save 20% billed annually ($25→$20/mo); Pro: Save 5% billed annually ($100→$95/mo) | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Warp | Coding AI | Free plan | 10% off all paid plans with annual billing | Sep 11, 2026 |
| Grok Bot | Automation | Usage-based | — | Aug 27, 2026 |
| Hermes Agent | Automation | Free plan | Discounted API rates on Nous Portal: Hermes-4-70B $0.05/1M prompt, $0.20/1M completion; Hermes-4-405B $0.09/1M prompt, $0.37/1M completion | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Lindy | Automation | $49.99/mo | 7-day free trial with full Pro features | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Make | Automation | Free plan | Yearly billing saves 15%+ vs monthly across tiers | Sep 11, 2026 |
| n8n | Automation | Free plan | Start-up Plan: 50% off Business for companies under 20 employees | Jul 5, 2026 |
| OpenClaw | Automation | Free plan | — | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Zapier | Automation | Free plan | Save 33% with annual billing | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Copy.ai | Marketing AI | $29/mo | 20% savings on annual billing | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Jasper | Marketing AI | $69/mo | 7-day free trial; ~20% off annual billing | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Buffer | Social media AI | Free plan | 14-day trial on paid plans; yearly billing saves 20%; 50% discount for nonprofits/charities | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Canva | Image & design AI | Free plan | Save from 16% with yearly billing; AI Pass add-on available on Pro/Business | Sep 11, 2026 |
| Ideogram | Image & design AI | Free plan | — | Sep 11, 2026 |
| Leonardo AI | Image & design AI | Free plan | Up to 20% off with annual billing | Sep 11, 2026 |
| Midjourney | Image & design AI | $10/mo | 20% discount on annual plans | Sep 11, 2026 |
| Recraft | Image & design AI | Free plan | — | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Descript | Video AI | Free plan | Save up to 35% with annual billing | Jul 5, 2026 |
| HeyGen | Video AI | Free plan | — | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Kling AI | Video AI | Free plan | Promo: first month Standard $6.99 / Pro $25.99 / Premier $64.99 / Ultra $127.99, ~12% off renewals (list $10/$37/$92/$180) | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Runway | Video AI | Free plan | Yearly billing -20% off any plan. Unlimited plan is being phased out — auto-migrates to Max on Sept 1, 2026 at the same $95/mo price. | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Bland AI | Voice AI | Free plan | Start plan includes 2 free credits plus an inbound number, no card required | Sep 11, 2026 |
| Cartesia | Voice AI | Free plan | — | Jul 5, 2026 |
| ElevenLabs | Voice AI | Free plan | Creator plan: first month 50% off ($11 vs $22); Startup Grants Program offers 12 months free (33M characters) for eligible startups | Jul 22, 2026 |
| Retell AI | Voice AI | Usage-based | $10 in free credits to start, plus 20 free concurrent calls | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Vapi | Voice AI | Usage-based | — | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Intercom Fin | Customer support AI | Usage-based | — | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Tidio | Customer support AI | Free plan | 7-day free trial; annual billing = 2 months free | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Apollo.io | Sales AI | Free plan | Save with annual billing (~20% below monthly-equivalent); AI Assistant included free as an introductory offer | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Clay | Sales AI | Free plan | — | Aug 6, 2026 |
| HubSpot | CRM AI | Free plan | Starter limited-time: $7/seat/mo billed annually (65% off $20 list) or $10/seat/mo billed monthly (50% off); new customers only, self-serve | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Fathom | Meeting assistants | Free plan | 90-day guarantee on paid plans; annual billing saves 25%+ | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Fireflies | Meeting assistants | Free plan | Annual billing saves up to 44% | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Gemini Notebook Toolkit | Research AI | Free plan | — | Aug 9, 2026 |
| Perplexity | Research AI | Free plan | Limited time: +$40 free Computer credits with Pro, +$450 with Max | Sep 11, 2026 |
| Julius | Data & analytics AI | Free plan | Yearly billing saves 20% off monthly rate | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Manage Bankroll | Data & analytics AI | $10/mo | — | Aug 9, 2026 |
| Gamma | Document AI | Free plan | Annual billing offers a 28% discount vs monthly | Sep 11, 2026 |
| Durable | Website & app builders | Free plan | Yearly billing saves 15% | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Framer | Website & app builders | Free plan | Free .com domain included on yearly Basic/Pro billing | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Notion AI | Internal knowledge | Free plan | Save up to 20% with yearly billing | Sep 11, 2026 |
| DeepSeek | Model & API platforms | Usage-based | — | Sep 11, 2026 |
| GLM (Z.ai) | Model & API platforms | Free plan | Cached input storage listed as 'Limited-time Free' across all text/vision models | Sep 11, 2026 |
| Groq | Model & API platforms | Free plan | — | Jul 5, 2026 |
| Jev (TypeSafe AI) | Model & API platforms | Usage-based | — | Sep 22, 2026 |
| Kimi (Moonshot) | Model & API platforms | Usage-based | Moonshot Together referral program: invite links grant draw chances for membership credits, valid through Dec 31 2026 | Aug 27, 2026 |
| MiniMax | Model & API platforms | $20/mo | MiniMax-M3 standing 'Permanent 50% off' on pay-as-you-go; Token Plan referral gives invitees 10% off first payment, referrers 10% bonus credit vouchers | Aug 27, 2026 |
| OpenAI API | Model & API platforms | Usage-based | — | Sep 24, 2026 |
| OpenRouter | Model & API platforms | Free plan | — | Aug 27, 2026 |
| Qwen (Alibaba) | Model & API platforms | Free plan | qwen3.7-max: limited-time 50% off ($2.50/$7.50 per 1M, no announced end date); qwen3.7-plus: limited-time 20% off | Aug 27, 2026 |
| xAI (Grok API) | Model & API platforms | Usage-based | — | Sep 22, 2026 |
One entry per verification run, oldest changes collapsed so the page stays scannable.
Model-release run: GPT-6 Sol / GPT-6 Luna (OpenAI, 2026-09-22) and Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic, 2026-09-22). Only the per-token API notes change; every plan's monthly price is unchanged, so no price-change alert should fire. Sources: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-sol-and-luna/ , https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing , https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-6-sol , https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-6-luna , https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5 , https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/models/overview
This file was briefly overwritten mid-run by a differently-scoped, differently-formatted draft (partial 4-tool scope, plus tools not in registry.json such as grok-bot/qwen-cloud). That draft's useful findings (DeepSeek vision-exp plan, extra OpenAI model rows, Sonnet 5 permanent-pricing confirmation) were folded back into this restored, full-scope version per the task spec. See open-questions.md for details on the anomaly. | MERGE 2026-08-27: grok-bot appended from the interactive session's verification - it is present in registry.json and is a published ai_tools row, so excluding it was an error.
Corrections we made to our own data
Verified — no price changes.
Full sweep of all 52 registry tools. 48 verified from official vendor pages; skipped elevenlabs, vapi (pricing pages not re-fetchable this run), kling and gamma (official pages login-gated/JS-only, no extractable USD) — registry entries left unchanged for those 4.
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