Cost per task
What one task actually costs
Every AI coding tool now meters in credits, requests or tokens. None of them tells you what a task costs. We publish ours, from real customer traffic, refreshed every hour.
Computing cost per task…
Cost per task
Every AI coding tool now meters in credits, requests or tokens. None of them tells you what a task costs. We publish ours, from real customer traffic, refreshed every hour.
Computing cost per task…
What the model providers charged codai for each task, in US dollars, across the last 30 days. Computed Oct 14, 2026.
Pay-as-you-go prices sit below our cost on long tasks today: cache writes are billed at the cached-input rate, while providers charge us 1.25× the input rate for them. We publish it anyway; any price change is announced 14 days ahead.
From each vendor’s own pricing or docs page, checked Oct 6, 2026. Units differ, so we show what each one meters and whether it states a cost per task.
| Product | Metered unit | Cost per task published | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| codai | Tokens at upstream cost; outcome price per verified task | $0.20 median, $2.60 p90 | This page |
| GitHub Copilot | AI Credits ($0.01 each) since June 2026 | NoNo dollar figure per task | docs.github.com(opens in a new tab) |
| OpenAI Codex | Messages per 5-hour window, then credits | Yes“A typical task may use 2–15 credits” (credits, not dollars) | learn.chatgpt.com(opens in a new tab) |
| Claude Code | Plan limits per 5-hour and weekly window, or API tokens | NoAbout $13 per developer per active day (per day, not per task) | code.claude.com(opens in a new tab) |
| Cursor | Included usage, then model API price (+$0.25/M tokens on Teams) | NoNo per-task figure | cursor.com(opens in a new tab) |
| Devin (Windsurf) | Quota, then on-demand credits (successor to ACUs) | NoNo per-task figure | docs.devin.ai(opens in a new tab) |
| Kiro | Credits ($0.04 per add-on credit) | NoNo per-task figure | kiro.dev(opens in a new tab) |