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.
Perplexity Max
Apple App Store in-app purchase list (Perplexity app) — read on 20 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
- Perplexity Free, $0.
- Price read from
- Apple App Store in-app purchase list (Perplexity app)
- Checked
- Vendor
- perplexity.ai
“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.
Perplexity Max is $200.00 a month, read on 20 August 2026 from the in-app purchase list for the Perplexity app. Twelve months of it is $2,400.00.
The step from Pro to Max is ten times the price, which is the steepest single jump between two tiers of the same product anywhere on this ledger. Nothing on the purchase list explains what the tenfold difference is in, and we are not going to fill that in for them.
There was no annual prepay on the list we read, so a year of Max costs what twelve months of Max costs. 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.