AI coding tools, with the sources attached.

Claude Code is Anthropic's coding agent for the terminal and several other surfaces. It is included with paid Claude plans and shares those plans' usage limits. A Console account bills API tokens instead.

Codex is included with ChatGPT plans rather than sold as its own subscription. Plus is $20 a month and adds the CLI, IDE, web, iOS, and cloud integrations. An API key bills platform token rates and does not include cloud features.

Cursor is a desktop coding editor sold as part of The X Subscription. Paid plans share a weekly usage pool with Grok. Plus is Grok-only. Premium and above can call third-party models at API list price, billed separately.

Lovable is a prompt-to-app builder priced by workspace credits, not by seat. Free includes a small daily build grant. Pro starts at $25 a month for 100 credits. The docs say you own the projects and code you build.

v0 is Vercel's prompt-to-UI product. Free includes a 7 message a day limit and deploy to Vercel. Plus is $30 per user a month with $30 of monthly credits. Business is $100 per user a month and opts out of training by default.

Cursor is an editor on The X Subscription. Claude Code is Anthropic's terminal and task agent, included with paid Claude plans. This page compares those published shapes. It does not declare a tested winner.

Lovable and v0 both generate web apps from prompts. Lovable prices a shared credit pool with unlimited members. v0 prices per user and deploys to Vercel. Neither has a hands-on result on this site.

A research ordering of five tools for Next.js work. In-repo agents are listed before prompt-to-app builders. The order is not a score and not a hands-on test.

Prompt-to-app tools that generate a web app in the browser and sync the code out. This launch set includes Lovable and v0.

Agents that operate on a repository you already have: an editor, a terminal agent, and a ChatGPT-plan agent.