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.
GitHub Copilot Pro
Vendor plans page (github.com/features/copilot/plans) — read on 25 August 2026.
$10.00 a month · list price
Not published renewal price
- Billed
- $10.00/mo — $120.00 a year
- Renews at
- Not published
- Free tier
- Copilot Free, $0, with 2,000 code completions a month.
- Price read from
- Vendor plans page (github.com/features/copilot/plans)
- Checked
- Vendor
- github.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.
GitHub Copilot Pro is $10.00 per user per month, read on 25 August 2026 from the vendor’s own plans page. Twelve months of it is $120.00.
An annual price for Copilot Pro is quoted in plenty of places. It was not on the plans page when we read it, so it is not in this record. What the page did state is the allowance: “$15 monthly total credits for Pro”, against a free tier capped at 2,000 completions a month.
That is a subscription priced in dollars that hands back an allowance also priced in dollars, which is about as explicit as this category gets about selling usage rather than capability. It also means the real cost of a heavy month is the subscription plus whatever you spend past the credits.
No renewal price was stated, so the renewal column is 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.