Ask HN: How much are you guys paying for AI coding tools monthly?

$10/month for GitHub copilot, which apparently allows me to access ChatGPT5 when I'm in visual studio code on my windows pc.

The agent way of doing code generation is light years ahead of the old way of trying to convey error messages back to the LLM manually. You tell ChatGPT5 what you want, it writes code and answers questions, then gives you command lines to try, and watches the output for errors, then fixes them, and has you try again, until it works.

Awesome stuff, affordably priced, even for a retired dude on a very fixed income like me.

You do have to watch out, though... ChatGPT5 apparently knows way more Computer Science than I do, it spit out code in a few minutes that I'm still trying to figure out, days later.[1] (line 245, decompile_lut_to_expr(lut: int) -> str)

It's going to take me another day or two to fully grok the Quine–McCluskey algorithm, and the Möbius transform it uses to take a compiled expression of 4 variables, and regenerate the minimum expression necessary to create it.

[1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid_python/blob/main/bitgri...

cursor $20, just for some API prompts. I usually develop internal company systems, so it's sufficient for my needs.

even the free version is enough.

Around $15/month for Claude (yearly subscription they offered me at the start of the year).

Had a Gemini Pro sub for 1 or 2 months but it didn't impress me that much.

When I need real horsepower (usually advanced math stuff) I use DeepSeek, which is both free and unparalleled in my opinion.

I did some experiments with OpenRouter but my total usage is still below $10.

More and more I've been experimenting with local thinking models and while it's quite slow (on my non-Apple, CPU-heavy hardware, at least), for some use cases it's an acceptable trade-off and the results have been satisfactory.

I care a lot about data privacy and I'm just not gonna upload clients' proprietary codebases under NDA to some AI company. I've been considering buying or renting proper hardware for local inference but the TCO (particularly with regards to depreciation) is not intuitive.

$40/month. Cursor plus GPT/Claude. I'll always hit the limit of one, and the other helps. I do prefer the interface of Claude Code but Claude itself is not quite there yet.

$40, one Cursor sub, and an Anthropic sub

(mainly keeping the redundancy for availability purposes)

100-700$. more when actively building, less when maintaining.

$20, just my chatgpt sub. I don't bother with the newer agentic tools or more expensive models. Old fashioned, I guess.

Cursor $200/year, LiveReview $100/year. Solid for me as of now.

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$100-200 per month

I'm 100% self hosted so it's just power, I had to upgrade my solar array so I suppose I could amortize some of that but I was planning on it anyway.

AI subscriptions I currently pay for: ChatGPT, $20/mo, Claude Code, $20/mo, Cursor, $20/mo, CodeRabbit, $30/mo

We have a soft cap at $500/mo for everyone right now and most devs don’t get close.