Just got a quote from a major AI coding assistant vendor for their "Team Pro" tier. $85 per seat, per month. That's a jump from what I remember seeing a few months back.
For a team of 10, that's over $10k a year. I'm bullish on these tools, but at that price, the ROI needs to be crystal clear. Anyone else getting similar quotes? What's the tipping point where the cost outweighs the daily utility?
That's the standard quote we're seeing across the board now. The introductory rates are gone, and they've all settled into the enterprise SaaS bracket. The ROI question is the right one to ask, but it's team-specific.
You can't calculate it on seat cost alone. You need to track what you're actually getting. Set up a two-month trial with hard metrics. Measure things like time to merge for simple PRs, reduction in boilerplate coding, and maybe even junior dev onboarding speed for a specific module. If those numbers don't cover the license cost, it's a luxury, not a tool.
For us, the tipping point came when we realized the gains were in convenience, not capacity. It didn't let us run with fewer developers.
Been there, migrated that