Pricing guides
AI pricing guides: every plan and API, company by company
8 companies' pricing, each plan in its company's own words and checked September 28, 2026, beside what its API charges for one typical message.
Other companies' plans checked . Updated .
Short answer
8 guides, one per company: every plan it sells with the price in its own words, and its API's price per message from llmwise's catalog. DeepSeek sells no chat plan, Kimi prices its plans in yuan, and Copilot Pro now opens as a Microsoft 365 plan.
Sources: OpenAI Help Center: ChatGPT Free Tier FAQ, OpenAI: Introducing ChatGPT Go, now available worldwide, OpenAI Help Center: What is ChatGPT Plus?, OpenAI Help Center: About ChatGPT Pro tiers, OpenAI: Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna and Claude pricing, checked .
AI pricing guides: every plan and API, company by company
| Company | Plans | Cheapest paid plan | API: a typical message |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 5 | ChatGPT Go: $8 a month | From $0.0008 (GPT-6 Luna) |
| Claude | 4 | Claude Pro: $20 a month | From $0.0075 (Claude Haiku 4.5) |
| Gemini | 5 | Google AI Plus: $4.99 a month | From $0.0056 (Gemini 3.8 Flash) |
| Grok | 3 | SuperGrok Lite: $10 a month | From $0.0098 (Grok 4.7) |
| Perplexity | 4 | Education Pro: $10 a month | Not in llmwise's catalog |
| DeepSeek | 0 | None | From $0.0011 (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) |
| Copilot | 4 | Microsoft 365 Personal: $9.99 a month | Not in llmwise's catalog |
| Kimi | 4 | Andante: ¥49 a month | From $0.0225 (Kimi K3) |
In India? ChatGPT and Google show rupee prices there; Claude and Perplexity charge in dollars. Every price in India, with UPI and the free offers.
Questions
Is an AI subscription cheaper than the API?
It depends on how much you use: a typical message (4,000 tokens in, 700 out) costs $0.0300 on Claude Opus 5.5 through Anthropic's API, while a monthly plan costs the same for one message or a thousand. Each guide works out both.
Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, Kimi, and GLM, in one chat.
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