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Best model and plan for daily building
A price-and-access comparison of the plans a builder can pay for today. Not a quality ranking from a Littlewolf bake-off.
Verdict. There is no single plan that includes the same models. For Claude Code on a published monthly sticker, Claude Pro is $20, or $17 a month if you pay $200 up front. For Grok and Cursor on one bill, The X Subscription starts at $8 and the tiers people will actually work in are Premium at $30, Super at $100, and Ultra at $200. Third-party models inside Cursor are extra. Google AI Pro is $19.99 and includes Gemini 4 Argon in the app. ChatGPT Pro starts at $100. ChatGPT Plus has no dollar price in the pricing-page text we could read.
Model · xAI
The combined Grok and Cursor subscription. Plus is $8/month, Premium $30, Super $100, Ultra $200. Third-party models inside Cursor are billed separately.
PriceFree, $8, $30, $100, or $200 per monthLimitsShared weekly pool: Limited, base, 4x, 15x, or 50x Plus. Token caps are not printed.
Model · OpenAI
Free, Go, Plus, and three Pro tiers. Pro prices are on the Pro help article. Go and Plus dollar prices were not in the pricing-page text.
PricePro $100, $200, or $500 per month. Go and Plus: Not publishedLimitsPro 500 includes Ultrafast. A message cap is not printed.
Model · Anthropic
Pro includes Claude Code on the same usage pool. Max starts at $100/month. Team seats are published per seat.
PricePro $20/month, or $17/month at $200/year. Max from $100/monthLimitsPro is at least 5x Free per five-hour session. Max is 5x or 20x Pro. No fixed message count.
Model · Google
Google AI Plus, Pro, and two Ultra tiers in the US. Gemini 4 Argon is on Pro and Ultra in the app, and on the API at an introductory token price.
PricePlus $4.99, Pro $19.99, Ultra $99.99 or $199.99 per monthLimitsPlus 2x Free, Pro 4x Free, Ultra 5x or 20x Pro. App limits refresh every 5 hours until a weekly cap.
Grok and Cursor are no longer two products to price side by side. x.ai/pricing sells them as The X Subscription. The announcement says new customers start on it, and existing SuperGrok, Cursor, and X Premium subscribers can keep their current plan or switch.
Google made Gemini 4 Argon available on October 13, 2026 to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app, and on the API at an introductory token price through November 30, 2026.
X Subscription monthly prices on x.ai/pricing: Plus $8, Premium $30, Super $100, Ultra $200. The shared pool is a weekly allowance at base, 4x, 15x, and 50x the Plus tier. The page does not print a token cap. Third-party models in Cursor are not in that price.
Claude Pro is $20 a month, or $17 a month when $200 is billed up front. Max is listed from $100 a month for 5x or 20x Pro usage per five-hour session. The 20x tier does not have its own sticker on the page. It does list $200 a month in API credits on Max 20x.
Google AI Plus is $4.99, Pro is $19.99, and Ultra is $99.99 or $199.99 a month in the United States. ChatGPT Pro is $100, $200, or $500 a month. Go and Plus dollar amounts were not in the ChatGPT pricing-page text.
Switch to The X Subscription if you want Grok and Cursor on one invoice and you can live without an included allowance for Claude or GPT inside Cursor. Stay on a legacy Cursor plan if that Other Models pool is the thing you use, and the docs still list Pro at $20, Pro Plus at $60, and Ultra at $200 for people who have not switched.
Pick Claude Pro if the job is Claude Code and chat on one pool. Pick Google AI Pro if you specifically want Gemini 4 Argon in the Gemini app at $19.99. Do not pick ChatGPT Plus from this page until OpenAI prints a price. This is not a claim about which model writes better code.
Related pillar: Model & Plan Comparisons. Checked prices, when they exist, belong on pricing and limits.