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I don't know about you, but I am constantly hitting my token usage limits at the worst times. And it seems like whichever model I use, I get stuck much sooner than anticipated. Although AI coding assistants promise to take the hard work out of programming, it seems like the catch is that paying $20 a month doesn't mean you can keep coding for as long as you want. Unlike ChatGPT's unlimited free chatting , coding limitations are actually pretty strict.

Because I was so tired of hitting the wall, I decided to compare which subscription offers better value, particularly for someone who codes regularly but doesn't want to pay $200 a month .

Rather than burn through two subscriptions with unexpected coding challenges, I compared the companies' published usage policies, pricing and available independent research.

What I found is that neither company guarantees a fixed number of coding tasks for $20, and a major change coming to ChatGPT could make that decision even more…