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 Pro 20x
Apple App Store in-app purchase list (ChatGPT app) — read on 25 August 2026.
$200.00 a month · list price
Not published renewal price
- Billed
- $200.00/mo — $2400.00 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 Pro 20x is $200.00 a month, read on 25 August 2026 from the in-app purchase list for the ChatGPT app. Twelve months of it is $2,400.00, which is twelve times the annual price of ChatGPT Plus.
There is no annual prepay on this tier, which is worth noticing. The discount for committing a year exists at $19.99 a month and disappears at $200.00 a month, so the customers paying the most are the ones with the fewest ways to pay less.
Pro 20x and Pro 5x are the same product at two allowances, priced $100.00 apart. Nothing in the names suggests a capability the cheaper tier lacks.
No renewal price was stated on the list we read, so the renewal column reads Not published.
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.