what does this cost?
Affordable AI coding, priced in plain numbers
FutureX bills by tokens: $1 per 1M on Fast, $2 per 1M on Pro. Studio bills by project: one fixed quote, 30% to start. No seats, no tiers to decode, no call with sales.
Free first month · no card required · no per-seat subscription
01Pricing
Two engines, two ways to pay
FutureX pricing is usage-based, because a terminal agent you use twice a week should not cost the same as one you run all day. Studio pricing is a fixed quote, because a project with a fixed scope should have a fixed price.
FutureX
The terminal AI coding agent. Pay for the tokens you run.
$1per 1M tokens (Fast)
Free first month · no card required
- Pro model when the work is hard: $2 per 1M tokens
- No per-seat subscription, no minimum, no annual commitment
- Four models — Pro, Fast, Light, Eco — billed at the two published rates
- Reads the repo before it writes, and remembers it next session
- Windows, macOS, and Linux on Node 20+
Not sure which model to run? Compare Pro, Fast, Light, and Eco.
Studio
Managed delivery. You send the brief, we ship the build.
Fixedper project
30% deposit · 70% on approval
- A fixed-scope quote before any work starts
- Request · Review · Quote · Build · Track and deliver
- Live milestone progress in one project room
- Meetings, messages, and files where the build is
Want the full flow first? See how the studio works.
02Estimate
Move the slider. That is the whole pricing page.
Drag to the tokens you expect to run in a month and read the two totals. No tiers, no overage penalties, no rounding you have to look up — it is tokens divided by a million, times the rate.
Fast
$5.00
$1 per 1M
Pro
$10.00
$2 per 1M
5,000,000 tokens per month: $5.00 on Fast, $10.00 on Pro.
Fast is the default model, so most runs bill at $1 per 1M tokens. Your first month is free, so the first number you actually pay is $0.00.
03Compare
Usage-based, or a seat every month
People search for the cheapest AI coding assistant and expect a marketing answer. Here is the real one. Most AI coding tools bill $10–$200 per month per seat. FutureX bills tokens. Which is cheaper depends entirely on how much you run.
FutureX, usage-based
$1 per 1M tokens (Fast) · $2 per 1M (Pro)
- A quiet month costs almost nothing — you are billed for tokens you ran.
- Nobody manages seats. Add a teammate, pay for what they run.
- Two numbers to remember, and you can do the math without a table.
- Free first month for new accounts, no card required.
The typical per-seat tool
$10–$200 per month, per seat
- Costs the same in a week you write no code as in a week you write all of it.
- Predictable — you know the invoice before the month starts.
- Every teammate is another seat, used or not.
- At very high volume the seat is already paid for, which is a real advantage.
The part nobody puts on a pricing page
Heavy use can cost more than a seat.
If you run the agent hard every day, usage-based can lose. 200M tokens a month on Pro is $400 — more than most seats. That is the honest trade: you pay for what you run, and if you run a lot, you pay a lot. Bursty months are where usage-based wins, and for most people most months are bursty. Put your real number in the slider above before you decide.
06FAQ
Vibe coding, terminal AI, and the FIM platform — answered
The questions people ask about FutureX, our affordable AI coding agent, and the FIM studio that can build it for you.
What is FutureX?
FutureX is an AI coding agent that runs in your terminal. Describe a change in plain English and it reads your codebase, plans the work, writes the code, remembers every decision, and ships a preview — without you leaving the shell. It is the flagship engine of the FIM platform.
What is vibe coding, and can I do it with FutureX?
Vibe coding — a term coined by Andrej Karpathy in 2025 — means describing what you want in natural language and letting AI turn it into working code. FutureX is built for exactly this: you prompt, it builds and ships, and you stay in control while the agent handles the typing.
Is FutureX the cheapest AI coding assistant?
FutureX is among the most affordable AI coding tools. It is usage-based — from $1 per 1 million tokens on the Fast model and $2 per 1 million on Pro — with a free launch month and no per-seat subscription. Most AI coding assistants charge $10–$200 per month per seat, so most users pay far less with FutureX.
What is FIM (FutureIM)?
FIM — short for Future Information Mastery, also written FutureIM and previously known online as futureistmaster — is one platform with two engines: FutureX, the terminal AI that builds software with you, and a Dashboard studio that delivers projects for you, from request to handover.
How is FutureX different from Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or Claude Code?
FutureX is terminal-first and repo-aware: it reads your project before writing, keeps persistent memory across sessions, and ships straight to preview. Pricing is usage-based instead of a monthly seat — and when you would rather not build it yourself, the same platform's studio can deliver it for you.
Which languages and platforms does FutureX support?
FutureX works with any language and framework in your repository and runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It installs as a single global CLI on Node.js 20+: run npm i -g futurex-cli, sign in once, and start from any terminal.
Do I need to be a developer to use FIM?
No. With FutureX you describe what you want and review what it builds — vibe coding lowers the bar to shipping software. And if you would rather hand it off entirely, the FIM studio takes a brief, gives a fixed quote, and delivers the finished product for you.
How do I get started with FutureX?
Install the CLI with npm i -g futurex-cli (pnpm, yarn, and bun work too), run futurex login, then futurex — and start building. New accounts get a free first month of FutureX. Prefer done-for-you? Send the studio a brief from the dashboard.
try it before you spend anything
The first month is free. The math after that is two numbers.
New accounts get a free first month of FutureX — no card. If handing the whole build over fits better, send the studio a brief and get a fixed quote back.
$1 per 1M Fast · $2 per 1M Pro · 30% deposit on studio projects