{"id":38716,"date":"2026-08-04T12:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T07:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/ai-assistant-pricing-in-2026-what-chatgpt-gemini-and-claude-cost\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T13:31:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T08:31:46","slug":"ai-assistant-pricing-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/ai-assistant-pricing-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Assistant Pricing in 2026: What ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude Cost"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the short version. In August 2026 you can get a genuinely useful AI assistant for nothing. A good paid one starts at five dollars a month. The top tier costs two hundred. And a lot of people are paying for something their phone already gives them for free.<\/p>\n

Prices move fast in this category. Google cut one of its plans by nearly forty percent in June. OpenAI added a whole new tier in April. So every number below was checked against the company’s own page on 4 August 2026, and where a company does not publish a price, I have said so rather than guessing.<\/p>\n

Here is the whole market on one screen.<\/p>\n

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Assistant<\/th>\nFree tier<\/th>\nEntry paid plan<\/th>\nTop consumer plan<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
ChatGPT<\/td>\nYes, with ads<\/td>\nGo, $8\/mo<\/td>\nPro, $200\/mo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Google Gemini<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nGoogle AI Plus, $4.99\/mo<\/td>\nGoogle AI Ultra, $199.99\/mo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Claude<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nPro, $20\/mo<\/td>\nMax 20x, $200\/mo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Samsung Galaxy AI<\/td>\nYes, free on the phone<\/td>\nNone<\/td>\nNone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apple Intelligence<\/td>\nYes, free on the device<\/td>\nNone<\/td>\nNone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n
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