REFERENCE / SUBSCRIPTIONS
Direct links to the official subscription and pricing pages for the assistants, coding tools and model APIs people actually use — free tiers included.
24 official entries · prices are snapshots checked 2026-11-08 · confirm on the vendor page before paying
International assistants · OpenAI
OpenAI's flagship assistant. The free tier covers the current mainstream models with limits; paid tiers raise caps and unlock the strongest models.
Free $0 · Go $8/mo · Plus $20/mo · Pro tiered by usage (about $100/$200/$500). Business and Enterprise priced separately.
International assistants · Anthropic
Anthropic's assistant, popular for writing, analysis and coding. Every paid individual plan now includes Claude Code.
Free $0 · Pro $20/mo ($17/mo billed yearly) · Max $100/mo · Ultra $200/mo · Team from $25/seat.
International assistants · Google
Google's assistant across Search, Android and Workspace. Consumer AI access is sold as Google AI plans bundled with storage.
Free tier · Google AI Pro $19.99/mo · AI Ultra $99.99 or $199.99/mo (two tiers after the 2026 price cut).
International assistants · xAI
xAI's assistant on grok.com and inside X. Standalone SuperGrok tiers, or bundled with X Premium subscriptions.
Free tier · SuperGrok Lite $10 · SuperGrok $30 · SuperGrok Plus $100 · SuperGrok Heavy $300; X bundles $8–$200/mo.
International assistants · Perplexity AI
Answer engine with cited sources. Pro covers everyday research; Max targets frontier models and advanced features (Lab, Comet).
Free tier · Pro $20/mo · Max $200/mo.
International assistants · Microsoft
Microsoft retired standalone Copilot Pro (Oct 2025) and folded consumer Copilot into Microsoft 365 plans; the top tier is Microsoft 365 Premium.
Microsoft 365 Premium $19.99/mo or $199.99/yr — Copilot in Office apps, 2 TB storage, up to 6 people.
International assistants · Mistral AI
Mistral's European assistant. The free tier exists; Pro is one of the cheapest paid assistants from a major lab.
Free tier · Pro $14.99/mo (students $5.99) · Team $24.99/seat.
International assistants · Quora
Aggregator: one subscription with compute points usable across many models (GPT, Claude, Gemini and more). Handy for trying several assistants at once.
Points-based tiers from $4.99/mo; common tiers $10 and $19.99/mo (about 660k points), up to $249.99/mo.
Chinese assistants · DeepSeek
DeepSeek's assistant: free to chat on web and app, no consumer membership. The API is billed separately (see API section).
Free chat · API pay-as-you-go (see API section).
Chinese assistants · Moonshot AI
Moonshot's long-context assistant, strong at documents and coding. Membership sells in five tiers; the purchase page shows live prices (sales can pause at peak times).
Membership tiers Go / Plus / Pro / Max / Ultra — current prices shown on the official purchase page.
Chinese assistants · ByteDance
China's highest-MAU assistant. The free tier remains; mid-2026 ByteDance began testing three paid tiers (still labeled as testing). Membership is purchased in-app.
Free tier · testing tiers ¥68 / ¥200 / ¥500 per month (annual ¥688 / ¥2,048 / ¥5,088) — subject to official confirmation.
Chinese assistants · Alibaba
Alibaba's consumer assistant (Qwen app). Basic features are free; developer, API and coding plans are sold separately.
Free for basic use; developer and API plans priced separately.
Chinese assistants · Tencent
Tencent's assistant with WeChat ecosystem integration. Currently free, with no membership wall.
Free (no paid membership as of the checked date).
Chinese assistants · Baidu
Baidu's assistant has been fully free since April 1, 2025: the paid membership was retired and flagship models are open to free users.
Free (membership discontinued 2025-04-01).
Chinese assistants · Zhipu AI
Zhipu's consumer assistant on the GLM model line. A membership system exists; prices are shown in-app rather than on a public pricing page.
Membership available — prices shown inside the app (service agreement updated May 2026).
Chinese assistants · iFLYTEK
iFLYTEK's assistant, strong in voice and education. Lite is permanently free; low-price consumer plans and token packs sit alongside the API.
Free Lite tier · low-price consumer plans (a ¥3.9/mo unlimited tier was reported in July 2026) · API token packs.
Chinese assistants · MiniMax
MiniMax's assistant for chat and video generation. Multiple membership tiers with frequent repricing — check the official site for current rates.
Multiple membership tiers; prices change often (the top domestic tier once reached ¥10,788/yr).
Coding subscriptions · GitHub
AI pair programmer inside GitHub and IDEs. A free tier exists; Pro is the standard individual plan.
Free $0 · Pro $10/mo · Pro+ $39/mo · Max $100/mo; Business/Enterprise for organizations.
Coding subscriptions · Anysphere
AI-native code editor. The 2026 lineup renamed tiers: entry Plus, mainstream Premium, heavy Super/Ultra. Third-party model usage bills separately.
Free $0 · Plus $8 · Premium $30 · Super $100 · Ultra $200 · Teams from $30/user.
Coding subscriptions · Cognition
The Windsurf editor now belongs to Cognition (Devin); its pricing page redirects to Devin plans that bundle Windsurf features.
Devin plans: Free · Pro $20 · Max $200 · Teams $80 + $40/seat.
Coding subscriptions · Zhipu (Z.ai)
Zhipu's international coding subscription for IDEs and agents, powered by the GLM model line; longer billing cycles get discounts.
Lite / Pro / Max tiers — current prices shown on the subscribe page (yearly billing discounted).
API & aggregators · DeepSeek
Official API pricing for DeepSeek models, with off-peak half-price billing.
deepseek-flash: input ¥1–2 and output ¥4–8 per 1M tokens (peak); V4-Pro tier higher; off-peak half price.
API & aggregators · OpenAI
OpenAI's pay-as-you-go API pricing for the GPT model line.
Per-token pricing — see the page for live model rates.
API & aggregators · OpenRouter
One account and API key for hundreds of models, billed as prepaid credits with no markup; includes free model routes.
Pay-as-you-go credits, no subscription; some models free with limits.
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Every card links to the vendor's own subscription or pricing page (no affiliate links). Descriptions and price figures are snapshots from official pages or attributed reports checked 2026-11-08; tiers, prices and regional availability change frequently — confirm on the official page before purchasing.
Free/paid status reflects the checked date: Baidu ERNIE and Tencent Yuanbao are currently free, Doubao is testing paid tiers, Microsoft's Copilot Pro was folded into Microsoft 365, and Windsurf now redirects to Cognition/Devin plans. Chinese apps usually sell membership inside the app rather than on a public pricing page.
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