Budget guide · $200 a month

Best AI coding subscriptions for $200 a month

At the page defaults, the #1 stack for $200 a month is Claude Pro + Codex Pro 100 + GLM Pro (3 seats, $200/mo total): about 94 h/week of building at p50 (p10–p90 46–183) and 41 h/week of planning at p50 (p10–p90 20–84); the weakest source in the stack is Codex Pro 100 (guessed), so treat those hours as a guess.

Top 5 stacks for $200 a month

Ranked by the site's scorer at the page defaults. Building = implement hours; every figure is p50 with its p10–p90 interval, in h/week.

#StackSeats$/moBuilding h/week p50 (p10–p90)Weakest confidence
=1Claude Pro + Codex Pro 100 + GLM Pro3$20094 (46–183)guessed
2Claude Pro + Codex Pro 100 + GLM Lite3$13854 (24–104)guessed
3Claude Max 5× + Codex Plus + GLM Pro3$200124 (62–248)community
4Codex Pro 100 + GLM Pro2$18076 (38–148)guessed
5Codex Pro 100 + GLM Pro + X Plus + Build3$18878 (39–152)guessed

Assumptions — the site's page defaults: 25 h/week at the keyboard, 65% building / 20% planning / 15% admin work, 50% of movable work off-peak, London time, at least one plan running as a terminal CLI agent, and quality floors of frontier planning and strong building. Numbers as of 2026-10-21.