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Cline, Roo Code & Aider pricing (October 2026)
Cline, Roo Code & Aider plans as of Oct 21, 2026: Open source $0.
Plans and limits
| Plan | Price / month | Key limits | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open source BYOK tools are free; you pay your model provider. Not individually re-verified in this snapshot (third-party summary: devtoolsreview.com). | $0 | BYO API key; pay provider token rates | no first-party page checked Oct 21, 2026 |
Our verdict
Free tools: you pay your model provider directly at token prices, which our calculator shows exactly. Costs scale linearly with usage, and there is no subscription buffer.
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How Cline, Roo Code & Aider bills usage
- You pay the model provider directly at token prices.
FAQ
- How much does Cline, Roo Code & Aider cost?
- Cline, Roo Code & Aider plans as of Oct 21, 2026: Open source $0.
- Are Cline, Roo Code and Aider free?
- The tools themselves are open source and free. You bring your own API key and pay the model provider (or a router such as OpenRouter) per token.
Changelog
- 2026-10-21 · First Seats & Tokens snapshot. Baseline capture of plan prices for 17 tools and token prices for 28 models.
- 2026-10-21 · Model prices: switched four models to first-party list prices. DeepSeek V4 Pro and V4.1 Flash (peak rates; off-peak is half), Qwen3 Coder Next (Alibaba Model Studio, international) and GLM-5.3 (Z.ai) now show the vendor's own price instead of an OpenRouter routed price. Kimi K3 and K2.7 Code still show OpenRouter prices because Moonshot's price table could not be read. source