What AI subscriptions cost a year, and what the money actually buys
Sixteen paid tiers from five vendors, priced by the year and dated. The pattern underneath all of them is that you are no longer buying a feature set, you are buying an allowance.
ChatGPT Go
Apple App Store in-app purchase list (ChatGPT app) — read on 24 August 2026.
$8.00 a month · list price
Not published renewal price
- Billed
- $8.00/mo — $96.00 a year
- Renews at
- Not published
- Free tier
- ChatGPT Free, $0, with lower message limits.
- Price read from
- Apple App Store in-app purchase list (ChatGPT app)
- Checked
- Vendor
- chatgpt.com
“Not published” means we did not find a renewal price stated by the vendor on the date we checked. It is not a claim that the price changes on renewal, and it is not a claim that it doesn’t.
ChatGPT Go is $8.00 a month, read on 24 August 2026 from the in-app purchase list Apple publishes for the ChatGPT app — the list your phone is actually charged against. Twelve of those payments come to $96.00 a year.
No annual prepay for Go appeared on that list, so the yearly figure here is our arithmetic on the monthly price rather than a number anyone quotes you. That matters more than it sounds: the tier above it, Plus, does sell an annual prepay, so the cheapest tier is also the one you cannot buy at a discount.
We found no stated renewal price for Go on the date we checked, so the renewal column reads Not published. That describes our check and nothing else.
Where we have written about this
This is a price record, not a review. We do not rate the product, we track what it charges. The method is on how we check prices; mistakes end up in the corrections log.