Best AI Coding Assistants for Teams in 2026: Yearly Cost at 25 Developers

Most AI coding pricing pages quote a single seat and stop. A team of 25 pays for every seat, and the real bill depends on the billing term, the seat tier and the usage pool each seat draws from. For 25 developers, the tier you buy can move the yearly bill more than the choice of tool does.

Methodology: each price comes from the vendor's own pricing page or docs, checked in October 2026. We priced 25 seats for 12 months at list price.

Where a vendor bills annually we use the annual rate and say so, where it shows only a monthly rate we use that, and we leave out discounts, taxes and overage, since overage depends on how a team works. Gemini Code Assist is not priced because Google's docs say new subscriptions are no longer sold.

Toolradar data: of the 156 AI coding tools we track, 88% have a free, freemium or open-source tier, and the median cheapest paid plan across the 50 that publish a price is $19.50 a month. Multiplied across 25 seats for a year, that median is $5,850, a useful yardstick when a vendor quotes a team price.

For the capability ranking behind these tools, see Best AI Coding Assistants in 2026.

A team AI coding assistant is a per-seat plan that gives each developer an AI tool in the editor, the terminal or both, with one admin console and one bill for the group.

Plans come in three shapes: flat-fee team plans that charge once for the group, per-seat plans with a fixed monthly allowance per developer, and per-seat plans with a premium tier that sells more usage at a higher price. The shape matters as much as the price, because it decides who pays for heavy agent work.

Seat price is the number vendors put first, but it is rarely the whole bill. A usage pool is the allowance a team shares or each developer draws on, and when it runs out, the vendor either bills overage or pushes the developer to a higher tier.

The billing term moves the bill by $1,500 a year at 25 seats on the two vendors that show both rates. ChatGPT Business and Claude Team Standard both price the same way: a lower rate per seat when billed annually, and a higher one when billed monthly.

Annual billing is the cheaper rate, but it locks the seats in for a year. A team still choosing a tool keeps its flexibility by staying on monthly billing and paying the difference.

The usage pool is the second lever. Cursor bills on-demand usage in arrears once the included pool runs out. Claude Enterprise bills usage at API rates on top of its seat, so its total cannot be fixed in advance. Augment Code's flat team plan sets one pool for the whole team, and that pool is the number to check before buying.

Cost at 25 seats for 12 months, at list price. Each seat plan is the monthly rate times 25 seats times 12 months, except where a vendor bills annually: then the annual rate is used. Augment Code's Standard plan is a flat monthly fee, so its yearly cost is twelve monthly fees. Devin adds a team fee on top of the per-seat charge. Claude Enterprise adds API-rate usage to its seat cost, which this page cannot compute.

Sources, read in October 2026: GitHub Copilot plans, GitHub Copilot plan docs, Amazon Q Developer pricing, OpenAI Codex pricing, Claude pricing, Cursor pricing, Devin pricing, Augment Code pricing and Sourcegraph pricing. Google's Gemini Code Assist overview states that new subscriptions are no longer available for purchase.

Where the order changes: Augment Code's flat fee undercuts every seat plan from two developers up, but its usage pool is the number to check first. Copilot Business costs less than Augment Business for up to five developers, and from six developers the $1,200 flat fee is the lower bill.

Tool profiles on Toolradar: Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code and Devin. Single-vendor detail sits on our Cursor pricing, GitHub Copilot pricing and Claude Code pricing pages, and the Cursor review covers the product itself.