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 Pro
Apple App Store in-app purchase list (Perplexity app) — read on 20 August 2026.
$20.00 a month · list price
Not published renewal price
- Billed
- $20.00/mo — $240.00 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 Pro is $20.00 a month, read on 20 August 2026 from the in-app purchase list for the Perplexity app. Twelve months of it is $240.00.
An annual plan for Pro is widely referred to elsewhere, and it may well exist. It was not on the purchase list we read, and we do not print prices we have not read, so this record carries the monthly figure only. If you find an annual option on a checkout screen, it is likely to be the cheaper way in — that is true of every other tier on this ledger that offers one.
The same purchase list also sells credit packs in five sizes alongside the subscription, which tells you what the subscription is rationing.
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.