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Coding Tool Plans Reshuffle: Replit Core Up to $25/mo, Zencoder Adds Yearly Tiers

Plans A wave of pricing overhauls hit coding tools today. Replit Core rose $20→$25/mo, with Pro's credit limit now spelled out at $100/mo (evt 2929). Zencoder introduced yearly pricing: Pro $40/yr, Pro Plus $85/yr, Pro Max $175/yr (evt 2930). Base44 shifted all tiers from monthly to yearly billing — Elite $1920/yr, Pro $960/yr, Builder $480/yr, Starter $192/yr (evt 2915). Emergent moved Standard to $17/yr and Pro to $167/yr, dropping Free's price and Pro's 1M context window (evt 2922). Devin's Teams plan is now listed at $80/mo flat (evt 2921). Claude Code trimmed Pro and Max feature lists and split Team into Standard/Premium seats (evt 2917). Codebuff added $100/$200/$500/mo plans while removing its 1x/2.5x/7x usage tiers (evt 2918). Codex, Bolt, GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q Developer, Junie, Firebase Studio, Kilo Code, OpenCode, Lovable, and Cody also adjusted limits or plan structures (evts 2919, 2916, 2924, 2914, 2925, 2923, 2926, 2928, 2927, 2920).

Prices Model API pricing moved on multiple fronts: hy3 input cut $0.2→$0.14/MTok on both OpenRouter (evt 2900) and models.dev (evt 2912). gpt-oss-120b input dropped $0.15→$0.04/MTok (evt 2908) and gpt-oss-20b $0.05→$0.03/MTok (evt 2909) on wandb. GLM-5.2 fell $0.93→$0.84/MTok on OpenRouter (evt 2901). Meanwhile GLM-4.6 rose $0.431→$0.55/MTok (evt 2904), Kimi-K2.5 rose $0.5→$0.6/MTok (evt 2907), and qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking jumped $0.5→$0.98/MTok, +96% (evt 2902).

Benchmarks x-ai/grok-4.5 posted top-5 scores: 72.4 on aa-coding-index (evt 3822), 53.8 on aa-intelligence-index (evt 3821), 45.7 on aa-agentic-index (evt 3823).

Usage gemini-3-5-flash crossed 50B OpenRouter tokens/day, hitting 57,062,382,760 (evt 3836). codex passed 50k GitHub stars (50,054) (evt 469).

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