[{"id":"kimi-k3-core","status":"active","provider":"Moonshot AI","plan":"Kimi K3 Membership — Moderato / Allegretto / Allegro / Vivace","title":"Kimi K3 core membership","canonical_url":"/best/kimi-k3-core/","official_terms_url":"https://www.kimi.ai/membership/pricing","price":{"now":"$19–$199/mo by tier (Moderato $19, Allegretto $39, Allegro $99, Vivace $199)","renewal":"Renews monthly at the same tier price; annual billing works out to about $15 / $31 / $79 / $159 per month of effective cost."},"renewal":"Monthly tiers renew at list price. Annual billing lowers the effective monthly cost (about $15 / $31 / $79 / $159 by tier) but is paid upfront — confirm the refund and cancellation terms on the official page before committing.","expiry":null,"verified_at":"2026-09-06","eligibility":["Anyone who can create a Kimi account and add an accepted payment method","Coding-endpoint users should confirm their tooling targets https://api.kimi.com/coding/ rather than PAYG key billing","Annual effective pricing requires paying a full year upfront"],"restrictions":["One shared credit pool across native membership usage — heavy features draw from the same balance","5-hour and weekly usage controls can gate burst usage even with credits remaining","Model served as k3-256k with high thinking-on behaviour; output style and verbosity affect consumption","Annual plan is upfront; confirm whether mid-cycle upgrades, downgrades, or refunds are offered"]},{"id":"muse-spark-zen-free","status":"active","provider":"Meta Muse Spark via OpenCode Zen","plan":"Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor Free — limited-time promo","title":"OpenCode Zen Muse Spark 1.3 free promo","canonical_url":"/best/muse-spark-zen-free/","official_terms_url":"https://opencode.ai/docs/zen/","price":{"now":"$0 for input, cache, and output tokens during the promo window","renewal":"No renewal — this is a limited-time promo, not a plan. When it ends, usage moves to whatever paid terms apply, so confirm before building on it."},"renewal":"There is no renewal because there is no paid plan here — it is a $0 limited-time promo on input, cache, and output. Treat anything you build on it as rented time: confirm the promo window and the post-promo price before depending on it.","expiry":"Limited-time promo — end date confirmed only inside the official product; re-verify before relying on it.","verified_at":"2026-09-07","eligibility":["Users who can reach the Zen section of the official product and see the promo model listed","Must select the exact string “Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor Free” — similarly named paid entries bill normally","Promo availability may vary by account, region, or app version"],"restrictions":["Limited-time promo — the $0 rate can end without notice outside the official window","Only the exact “Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor Free” string is $0; nearby model names may be paid","Reasonable-use gating may apply even at $0; it is free, not unlimited","No renewal or price lock — post-promo terms are whatever the provider publishes next"]},{"id":"nvidia-k3-free","status":"active","provider":"NVIDIA Build","plan":"Kimi K3 free for development and prototyping","title":"NVIDIA Build Kimi K3 free","canonical_url":"/best/nvidia-k3-free/","official_terms_url":null,"price":{"now":"$0 for development and prototyping use within account limits","renewal":"No paid renewal in the snapshot — free dev/prototyping allocation governed by account-level limits, which vary. Confirm current quota in the official console."},"renewal":"Nothing renews because nothing is billed in this snapshot — the free allocation for development and prototyping is set by account-level limits that vary. If your prototype becomes production, expect to move to paid terms published in the official console.","expiry":null,"verified_at":"2026-09-06","eligibility":["Developers with an NVIDIA Build account in good standing","Development and prototyping workloads — not a production serving commitment","Account-level access to the Kimi K3 listing in the official catalog"],"restrictions":["Limits vary by account — rate limits, quotas, and availability differ and can change","Development/prototyping scope — production load belongs on paid terms","Catalog availability can shift without notice; listings rotate","Usage is subject to the platform's acceptable-use and rate-limit policies"]},{"id":"copilot-pro","status":"active","provider":"GitHub","plan":"Copilot Pro (individual)","title":"GitHub Copilot Pro","canonical_url":"/best/copilot-pro/","official_terms_url":"https://github.com/features/copilot/plans","price":{"now":"$10/user/mo (monthly billing; annual price for Pro not published)","renewal":"Monthly per-user charge. No auto-renew terms page was found in this pass — the docs describe cancellation and proration but not renewal notice, so treat renewal mechanics as unverified."},"renewal":"Billed monthly per user. Canceling keeps access until the end of the current billing cycle with no proration; upgrades prorate immediately, downgrades take effect next cycle. A personal plan is automatically canceled (with prorated refund) if a company seat overlaps it. Whether the price is locked between renewals: not published.","expiry":null,"verified_at":"2026-09-07","eligibility":["Any individual GitHub account with a supported payment method ($10/user/mo)","Free alternative exists: Copilot Free (2,000 completions + 50 chat requests/mo) and a Student plan for verified students at $0","Teachers and maintainers of popular open-source projects: docs state access at no cost (eligibility mechanics beyond 'verified' not published)","Additional-credit purchase is unavailable for iOS/Android in-app subscriptions per the plans table"],"restrictions":["AI credits (plain-English: monthly usage dollars converted to points — 1 credit = $0.01) gate chat, agent mode, code review, cloud agent, CLI, and Apps; code completions and next-edit suggestions do not use credits and stay unlimited on paid plans","Pro carries $15/mo total credits = $10 base (1,000) + $5 flex (500); unused credits do not carry over — reset 00:00 UTC on the 1st of each month","Premium models (e.g. Claude Opus/Fable, GPT-5.5/5.6 Sol, GPT-6 Astra) are listed as Pro+/Max access in the docs tier table — Pro's own roster covers Sonnet 4.6/Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4/5.6 Luna/Terra, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Grok 4.5/4.6, Kimi K2.7/K3, MAI-Code","Continuing past included credits requires setting a dollar budget; GitHub notes additional usage 'may be capped'","Code review also bills GitHub Actions minutes"]},{"id":"chatgpt-plus","status":"active","provider":"OpenAI","plan":"ChatGPT Plus","title":"ChatGPT Plus subscription","canonical_url":"/best/chatgpt-plus/","official_terms_url":"https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6950777-what-is-chatgpt-plus","price":{"now":"$19.99/mo in the official US App Store IAP list; the Plus help article is excerpt-quoted at '$20/month, billed monthly'","renewal":"Help-center excerpts state Plus 'automatically renews at the standard ChatGPT Plus monthly rate unless canceled' and advise canceling at least 24 hours before renewal. No annual plan: the Plus article is excerpt-quoted saying annual billing or multi-month prepay is not supported."},"renewal":"Monthly auto-renew at the standard rate unless canceled; app-store sign-ups renew through Apple/Google and must be canceled there. A consumer price-change notice policy for Plus: not published in anything retrievable this pass. Refund mechanics exist as a dedicated help article but specific windows were not readable.","expiry":null,"verified_at":"2026-09-07","eligibility":["Anyone who can create a ChatGPT account in a supported country and add payment (web card via Stripe-style localized billing, or in-app purchase)","Multi-currency localized pricing exists per the billing help article (excerpt) — displayed price varies by region","App-billed subscriptions (iOS/Android) carry the store's price, which may differ from web"],"restrictions":["Usage caps are model- and window-shaped: current framing is 5-hour rolling windows plus weekly allowances, per help release-note excerpts — OpenAI publishes no single consolidated Plus cap table","Excerpt from release notes: Plus had '3,000 messages/week with GPT-5 Thinking' and a 196k context for that model — account of record (May 2026); may have shifted","'Plus subscriptions may include usage limits such as message caps, especially during high demand. These limits may vary based on system conditions.' (help excerpt) — caps are explicitly variable","Feature sub-limits are separate: 'ChatGPT file uploads, image generation, or voice have separate usage limits, reset periods, and banners' (Codex-tied article, excerpt)","Overage is credit-based: personal plans can buy flexible-usage credits to continue after hitting plan limits, and Plus/Pro can buy instant resets of weekly Work/Codex limits — credit prices: not published"]},{"id":"google-ai-pro","status":"active","provider":"Google","plan":"Google AI Pro","title":"Google AI Pro subscription","canonical_url":"/best/google-ai-pro/","official_terms_url":"https://gemini.google/subscriptions/","price":{"now":"$19.99/mo (annual billing is offered but the annual price is not published on official pages fetched)","renewal":"Auto-renews at the start of each billing cycle until you unsubscribe; price increases require at least 30 days' prior notice applied after the current period; a failed renewal gets a seven-day grace period."},"renewal":"Charged at the beginning of each billing cycle; renews automatically unless canceled. Google may change prices with at least 30 days' notice before your next charge. Cancellations keep benefits until the cycle ends; storage purchases are non-refundable in most countries (Apple-billed purchases go through Apple; Israel has a 14-day pro-rata rule).","expiry":null,"verified_at":"2026-09-07","eligibility":["Available in over 150 countries and territories; personal Google accounts only (not while billed via a third-party partner or Pixel Pass)","Some benefits are age-gated to 18+","Students: Google AI Pro free for 1 year with SheerID verification — offer auto-renews at $19.99/mo when student status concludes; not available on school-issued accounts","Family sharing: up to five other members get AI benefits at no extra cost (with carve-outs, e.g. YouTube Premium Lite not shareable)"],"restrictions":["Limits are per-window: 'Your limit refreshes every 5 hours until you reach your weekly limit' — and each product (Gemini, Flow, Antigravity…) has its own limits","Exact prompts/day or gens/week figures: not published on fetched official pages","Buying more usage exists (AI credits) but pack prices and per-feature credit costs are not published in the help article and 'Google reserves the right to modify the credit cost'","Feature flags are region-limited: auto-browse in Chrome and Photos Remix are US-only per the plans page","The one.google.com plans pages render prices client-side — dollar figures were confirmed only on gemini.google/subscriptions"]},{"id":"claude-pro","status":"active","provider":"Anthropic","plan":"Claude Pro","title":"Claude Pro subscription","canonical_url":"/best/claude-pro/","official_terms_url":"https://claude.com/pricing","price":{"now":"$20/mo billed monthly; annual is $200 billed up front ('$17 per month with annual subscription discount', pricing-page card)","renewal":"Renews automatically to the payment method on file. Cancel any time and keep access until the current billing period ends — 'to avoid the next charge, cancel at least 24 hours before your renewal date.' Payments are generally non-refundable except where Consumer Terms or local law say otherwise; EEA/UK buyers get a prorated 14-day refund window."},"renewal":"Auto-renews monthly (or yearly on annual, which 'is billed once up front for the year'). Switching monthly to annual credits any unused monthly time against the first annual invoice and resets the next billing date one year out. App Store/Google Play subscriptions are billed and refunded by the store ('Refunds for App Store purchases are granted at Apple's discretion' — and a refund request does not cancel the subscription). Beyond the 12-month upfront structure, annual early-exit terms: not published.","expiry":null,"verified_at":"2026-09-07","eligibility":["Pro is available in Anthropic's supported locations (the supported-countries list spans roughly 190 countries; some regions excluded) and 'pricing in your local currency where supported'","Web sign-up bills directly; iOS/Android sign-ups are billed through Apple/Google","Team products require 2+ seats; Pro does not include Claude Console (API) usage","Mobile-app subscribers can only enable usage credits on the web version of Claude"],"restrictions":["Caps are window-shaped: 'Pro gives you at least 5x more usage per 5-hour session than Free', the session limit 'resets every five hours', and paid plans add a weekly all-model cap that resets at a fixed time assigned to your account (visible in Settings > Usage)","No fixed message count: usage depends on conversation length/complexity, model, and features; Anthropic 'may limit your usage in other ways… at our discretion'","Fable 5/5.1 (flagship tier) are not inside Pro's included limits — on Pro they 'run on pay-as-you-go usage credits' at standard API rates; Max seats include Fable up to 50% of weekly limits","Claude Code shares one pool with chat: 'All Claude Code activity counts toward your weekly limits — web, desktop, mobile, and terminal draw from the same pool'","Model training on consumer plans (Free/Pro/Max) is 'Opt-out' per the pricing matrix — check the setting rather than assuming a default","'Price and plans are subject to change at Anthropic's discretion.'"]},{"id":"cursor-pro","status":"active","provider":"Cursor","plan":"Cursor Pro","title":"Cursor Pro editor subscription","canonical_url":"/best/cursor-pro/","official_terms_url":"https://cursor.com/pricing","price":{"now":"$20/mo (annual USD price not published; a Monthly/Yearly toggle exists in-app but yearly amounts are not on official pages fetched)","renewal":"'Your cycle starts on the date you subscribe. It renews monthly or yearly based on your plan.' (billing doc, quoted). Canceling keeps paid features to the end of the current period with no further charges."},"renewal":"Auto-renews monthly (or yearly where chosen — the yearly dollar figure is not published) from the subscription date. Refunds: eligible only if the charge is under 14 days old AND the subscription was unused in the period; consumed on-demand/fast-request charges are never refundable. Plan-change credit is computed from unused included usage, not days remaining.","expiry":null,"verified_at":"2026-09-07","eligibility":["Any individual with a supported card ('all major credit and debit cards'); invoice/wire billing exists for larger accounts","All prices exclude applicable taxes; tax details are managed in the Stripe billing portal","India-only 'Start' tier (₹649/mo tax-inclusive) is the regional alternative to Pro","The legacy free-Pro student offer closed to new sign-ups on June 25 2026 — existing redeemers keep their rate until expiry"],"restrictions":["Included usage: 'Every plan includes a set amount of model usage' — the dollar size of Pro's pool is not published anywhere on official pages fetched","On-demand usage (plain-English: pay-as-you-go at raw model prices once the pool is gone) must be enabled and is billed in arrears 'at the same API rates'","Auto mode bills 'at the list price of the model each request is routed to'; a named third-party model draws the Other Models pool at its API rate — so 'Auto' is not a cheap default for long agent runs","Two separate pools exist (Agent and bonus/other); Pro/Pro+/Ultra include both","Upgrading credits only the unused included usage of the old plan, not time left on it"]},{"id":"perplexity-pro","status":"active","provider":"Perplexity","plan":"Perplexity Pro","title":"Perplexity Pro subscription","canonical_url":"/best/perplexity-pro/","official_terms_url":"https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/pricing","price":{"now":"$20/mo; annual billing exists but its price is not published on any official page fetched (the 'about $200/yr' figure rests on an expired India promo's dollar-value line, not a listed annual price)","renewal":"'Unless you cancel before the trial ends, your subscription will auto-renew at the standard rate for the plan you selected (monthly or annual).' Canceling ends service at the billing-cycle close; no pause option exists."},"renewal":"Monthly auto-renew at the standard rate unless canceled; annual subscriptions renew at the annual rate (figure not published). Account → Subscription → Manage Plan → Cancel Subscription; cancellations and downgrades take effect at the end of the billing cycle. Regional refund windows: EU/UK/Turkey 14 days; South Korea/Brazil 7 days; elsewhere monthly up to 24 hours, annual 72 hours (one official Max article says 48 — see evidence).","expiry":null,"verified_at":"2026-09-07","eligibility":["Any individual with a supported payment method (App Store and Google Play also sell Pro)","Students: Education Pro at $10/mo with SheerID verification (half price, per the which-plan article)","Max at $200/mo or $2,000/yr — annual Max is web-only; Enterprise Pro from $40/seat/mo, edu/NPO $30/seat","Old promo routes are closed: the Airtel 12-month offer ended January 16 2026"],"restrictions":["Pro Search: Free gets 3/day; Pro gets 'weekly limits (average use)' — no numeric cap published, and access 'may be limited during weeks of especially heavy usage'","Deep Research on Pro: 'monthly limits (average use)', no figure (Max's 50/month is stated by contrast)","Credits (plain-English: prepaid units for agentic 'Computer' tasks, 100 credits = $1): consumer Pro does not start with a fixed monthly pool — Pro shows only a one-time 4,000 bonus credit grant that expires after 30 days; Max carries 10,000/mo","The official model-list help article that the Pro page links is 404 — 'which models, exactly, today' has no single current canonical page","Agentic features (Labs, Comet agent work) may consume credits beyond the flat fee"]}]