Category
AI software pricing
AI software on this site starts at a median of $16 a month across the 8 products that publish a price, from $4.99 on Google Gemini to $30 on Grok.
9 products are filed under AI, and 27 more cover it as a secondary capability. Every price was read from the vendor's own page, most recently on 27 September 2026.
What the data shows
Computed from the 9 AI profiles on this site, whose figures were read from each vendor's own pricing page between 19 August 2026 and 27 September 2026. Prices are the smallest invoice each product will accept, with any seat minimum applied, in US dollars.
| Measure | What the records show |
|---|---|
| Median entry price | $16 a month across 8 products with a published price, from $4.99 on Google Gemini (Google AI Plus) to $30 on Grok (SuperGrok). Not in the figure: DeepSeek (no paid tier with a published figure). |
| Free plan | 9 of 9 |
| Seat minimum recorded | ChatGPT Business, 2 seats; Claude Team, 2 seats. |
| Entry tier priced per year | None. Every entry price here is published as a monthly figure. |
| Refunds | Read for 3 of 9. None offered: DeepSeek, Google Gemini. A refund window: Microsoft Copilot (30 days). |
| Price changes, 12 months to 27 September 2026 | Google Gemini Google AI Plus, $7.99 to $4.99 (-37.5%), last archived at the old price 1 May 2026 and at the new one 9 July 2026. |
| Share of products sold only on an annual contract | Not computed: it needs a recorded monthly option per plan, which the records carry on 37 of 540 tiers. |
| Cheapest real invoice for a five-seat team | Not computed: it needs a recorded billing unit per plan (per seat, flat, per host), which the records carry on 0 of 540 tiers. |
AI assistants price the individual tier near $20 a month and sell usage above it
The individual paid tier most assistants publish sits at or near $20 a month: ChatGPT Plus and Perplexity Pro at $20, Google AI Pro at $19.99, and Claude Pro at $20 billed monthly or $17 a month billed annually at $200 up front. Below that line, ChatGPT Go is $8 a month and Google AI Plus $4.99. Above it, the tiers are sold as usage multiples rather than as features: Claude Max from $100 a month for 5x or 20x Pro’s usage, Google AI Ultra at $99.99 for 5x AI Pro’s limits with a $199.99 tier at 20x, SuperGrok Plus at $100 and Perplexity Max at $200.
Team and business plans are where the unit changes to a seat. Claude Team is from $25 per seat, Mistral Team $24.99 per user, and Microsoft 365 Copilot Business $21 per user a month paid yearly, advertised at $18 when read on 19 August 2026. ChatGPT’s Business plan is listed per user with no figure on the page we read, and Claude’s Enterprise adds usage billed at API rates to a $20 seat.
DeepSeek is the exception to subscription pricing altogether: the assistant is free, and the API is metered per million tokens, from $0.22 per million input tokens off-peak on deepseek-v4-flash. Grammarly, the one writing tool filed under AI, is $12 a month on Pro.
AI tools by what they do
The list further down is this category's own products. These four groups cut across the whole directory instead, and most of what they contain is filed under another category: the tools that measure whether AI answers mention you are SEO products, and the generators are design products. A product is filed here only where AI is its function rather than a feature it also ships. Tools that added AI to an existing job keep their ordinary category and appear in neither list.
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8 products
AI assistants and answer engines
General-purpose assistants and answer engines: the tool is the model, and you bring the work to it.
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4 products
AI search visibility
Measuring and improving whether AI assistants mention and cite a brand. The newest cluster here, and the one with the least settled vocabulary.
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5 products
AI writing and content optimisation
Drafting, editing and optimising text against a target - a style, a search result, or an AI answer.
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3 products
AI image and video generation
Generating and editing visual assets from prompts, references or brand styles.
Every AI product, by smallest invoice
| Product | Smallest invoice | As the vendor states it | Free plan | Trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Gemini | $4.99 a month on Google AI Plus | Free; Google AI Plus from $4.99/month, AI Pro $19.99/month | Yes | None |
| ChatGPT | $8 a month on Go | Free; Go from $8/month, Plus $20/month | Yes | None |
| Grammarly | $12 a month on Pro | Free plan available; Pro $12/month | Yes | 7 days on Pro |
| Mistral | $14.99 a month on Pro | Free; Pro $14.99/month; Team $24.99 per user/month | Yes | None |
| Claude | $17 a month on Pro | Free; Pro from $17/month billed annually ($20 monthly) | Yes | None |
| Perplexity | $20 a month on Pro | Free; Pro $20/month; Max $200/month | Yes | None |
| Microsoft Copilot | $21 a month on Microsoft 365 Copilot Business | Copilot Chat free; Microsoft 365 Copilot Business from $18/user/month paid yearly | Yes | Offered on the business plans; a credit card is required to start one |
| Grok | $30 a month on SuperGrok | Free; SuperGrok $30/month; SuperGrok Plus $100/month | Yes | None |
| DeepSeek | No paid tier priced | Free; API from $0.22 per million input tokens | Yes | None |
Most compared in AI
Ordered by how many other profiles on this site name the product as a competitor.
- ChatGPT, named on 7 profiles
- Claude, named on 4 profiles
- Google Gemini, named on 2 profiles
- Mistral, named on 1 profile
Related categories
Categories sharing the most products with this one, in either direction.
- Productivity software pricing, 12 shared products
- Development software pricing, 7 shared products
- SEO software pricing, 6 shared products
- Sales software pricing, 5 shared products
Filed elsewhere, also listed as AI
Their records name AI as a secondary category. They are not counted in the figures above.
- Adobe Creative Cloud (Design): from $19.99 a month on Photography plan
- Adobe Express (Design): from $10.99 a month on Acrobat Express
- AirOps (SEO): Not disclosed; AirOps publishes plan limits but no plan prices
- Apollo.io (Sales): from $49 a month on Basic
- Clay (Sales): from $167 a month on Launch
- Clearscope (SEO): from $129 a month on Essentials
- Fashion Diffusion (Design): from $12 a month on Starter
- Frase (SEO): from $49 a month on Starter
- Freshdesk (Support): from $19 a month on Growth
- GitHub (Development): from $4 a month on Team
- Google Workspace (Productivity): from $7 a month on Business Starter
- Help Scout (Support): from $25 a month on Standard
- HubSpot (Sales): from $7 a month on Starter
- Intercom (Support): from $29 a month on Essential
- Mailchimp (Marketing): from $20 a month on Standard
- Microsoft 365 (Productivity): from $7 a month on Business Basic
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 (Sales): from $65 a month on Sales Professional
- Microsoft Power BI (Analytics): from $14 a month on Power BI Pro
- Microsoft Teams (Productivity): from $4 a month on Teams Essentials
- Notion (Productivity): from $10 a month on Plus
- Recraft (Design): from $10 a month on Basic
- Salesforce (Sales): from $25 a month on Starter Suite
- Semrush (SEO): from $139 a month on SEO
- Slack (Productivity): from $8.75 a month on Pro
- Surfer (SEO): from $49 a month on Discovery
- Vercel (Development): from $20 a month on Pro
- Zendesk (Support): from $19 a month on Support Team