Quarterly report · evidence-based
State of AI Pricing
What 108 AI tools officially charge as of the 2026-08-25 verification run — which vendors run real promotions, and every confirmed price movement since. No scraped guesses, no expired offers.
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108 tools tracked
Every tool in our directory has an official-pricing snapshot dated 2026-08-25 or later.
Live promotions
21 verified promos
Found on official pricing pages during verification runs. Each links to the vendor page so you can confirm before buying.
Confirmed changes
36 since baseline
Detected automatically when a new verification run differs from the stored snapshot.
Verified promotions right now
| Tool | Promo detail | Checked |
|---|---|---|
| Adobe Firefly | The first-year promotional rates recorded on 2026-08-25 (US$34.97 Pro Plus and US$139.91 Premium) were no longer displayed on the official pricing page on 2026-10-01. | 2026-10-01 |
| AIBase | Yearly billing is 20–40% off (Basic yearly ~$180; Pro yearly equivalent ~$29.9 × 12 × 0.6 ≈ $215; Ultimate $99.9 × 12 with 40% off ≈ $720, saving $238.8 on the Pro tier). | 2026-09-18 |
| AIDetector.cx | Free: 5 introductory checks total (1 guest + 4 signed-in), no recurring reset. | 2026-11-03 |
| AllVideoAI | Promotional countdown timers and 'new customer offer' discounts appear on the pricing page; verify current prices before subscribing. | 2026-09-18 |
| CustomGPT.ai | Annual billing is 10% off (save $120 on Standard and $600 on Premium). Eligible education and nonprofit buyers are offered 20% off annual plans only. | 2026-10-27 |
| GatsbyAI | The page states the yearly option as 50% off and the arithmetic is exact against twelve times the monthly price. | 2026-10-21 |
| Genjutsu AI | Banners read "Save up to 50%" with per-plan badges of 40% OFF (Save $238.8) on Pro and 50% OFF (Save $599.8) on Business; those two reconcile against the struck-through monthly prices, but the annual Starter plan has no anchor and costs more per credit than the monthly Starter. | 2026-10-26 |
| Grantable | Qualifying 501(c)(3) organizations with annual operating budgets under approximately $500,000 get 50% off Starter and Pro for one year ($25/month and $75/month). | 2026-09-18 |
| HumanPen | Verified on three surfaces that agree - the rendered /pricing page (four cards, first-purchase prices shown beside list prices), the site's own public endpoint /api/backend/v1/credits/packages?locale=en (eight items: four 'first_*' packs at the discounted cents values and four standard packs at 1900/7900/14900/24900 cents, currency USD, every provider 'waffo', default_provider 'waffo', first_purchase_available true, no recurring flag on any item), and the pricing page metadata ('1,000 credits for $19, or $9.90 on your first purchase'). | 2026-10-23 |
| LM Studio | Bionic+ at $20 USD/month for private, US-hosted open-source models, discounted bulk tokens, and web search with page extraction. Pro at $100 USD/month with 5x usage limits, discounted bulk tokens, and early access. | 2026-10-01 |
| Makify AI | Annual cards show 17%, 33% and 50% off the monthly equivalents and the site carries a standing '-50%' promo badge. | 2026-11-10 |
| Microsoft Copilot | Microsoft 365 Copilot Business is displayed at a promotional $18/user/month, paid yearly, versus a $21 list price. | 2026-10-01 |
| Midjourney | Annual billing is a 20% discount. | 2026-10-01 |
| RapVideo AI | Yearly: badged 'up to 44% off' and auto-renewing; the only yearly figure in the served HTML is Basic at $299/year for 120 videos (about 17% below the monthly rate, ~$24.92/mo), while Pro and Agency yearly prices render only after the client-side toggle. | 2026-10-27 |
| Robylon | Yearly billing is 10% off, so Pro 500 credits is $22/mo and Business 4,500 is $162/mo. | 2026-10-16 |
| Slack AI | The page was also displaying a 50%-off-for-three-months promotion for eligible Pro and Business+ purchases. | 2026-09-18 |
| TenantCloud | TenantCloud's official pricing page lists Starter at $25/month or $180/year billed annually ($15/month, advertised as 40% off); Growth at $35/month or $350/year ($29/month); Pro at $60/month or $600/year ($50/month); and Business starting at $100/month as a custom plan. | 2026-09-18 |
| TypingMind | TypingMind offers one-time lifetime licenses: Standard at $39 (basic chat, AI agents, voice input, chat sharing), Extended at $79 (adds image generation, web search, text-to-speech, vision/images, document upload), and Premium at $99 (discounted from $198, adds multi-model chats, unlimited plugins, projects and folders, artifacts, free updates). A Bulk License for up to 10 users on 50 devices is $395 (discounted from $790). | 2026-09-18 |
| UMEVO | Sale badged '35% off' with a countdown that renders 00:00:00 and no stated end date. | 2026-10-27 |
| Words into Music | Payments via Stripe; one introductory song for an eligible verified account. | 2026-10-21 |
| You.com | The current public pricing page primarily lists APIs: Web Search $5/1,000 calls, Contents $1/1,000 pages, Answer $5/1,000 calls, Research from $12/1,000 calls, and Finance Research from $110/1,000 calls, with a $100 introductory credit. | 2026-10-01 |
Confirmed price changes since baseline
| Date | Tool | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-25 | Cursor | Cursor: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-08-21 check, re-verified 2026-08-25. |
| 2026-08-25 | Grok | Grok: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-08-21 check, re-verified 2026-08-25. |
| 2026-09-01 | Shortwave | Shortwave: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-08-29 check, re-verified 2026-09-01. |
| 2026-09-01 | Browse AI | Browse AI: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-08-29 check, re-verified 2026-09-01. |
| 2026-09-01 | Rows | Rows: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-08-29 check, re-verified 2026-09-01. |
| 2026-09-01 | NotebookLM | NotebookLM: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-08-29 check, re-verified 2026-09-01. |
| 2026-09-01 | TypingMind | TypingMind: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-08-29 check, re-verified 2026-09-01. |
| 2026-09-01 | Speechify | Speechify: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-08-29 check, re-verified 2026-09-01. |
| 2026-09-13 | Sonaopus | Sonaopus: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-09-12 check, re-verified 2026-09-13. |
| 2026-10-01 | Adobe Firefly | Adobe Firefly: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-08-25 check, re-verified 2026-10-01. |
| 2026-10-01 | Canva AI | Canva AI: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-08-25 check, re-verified 2026-10-01. |
| 2026-10-01 | ChatGPT | ChatGPT: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-08-25 check, re-verified 2026-10-01. |
| 2026-10-01 | Gamma | Gamma: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-08-25 check, re-verified 2026-10-01. |
| 2026-10-01 | Grok | Grok: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-08-25 check, re-verified 2026-10-01. |
| 2026-10-01 | n8n | n8n: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-08-25 check, re-verified 2026-10-01. |
| 2026-10-01 | Ollama | Ollama: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-08-26 check, re-verified 2026-10-01. |
| 2026-10-01 | LM Studio | LM Studio: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-08-26 check, re-verified 2026-10-01. |
| 2026-10-01 | Heidi Health | Heidi Health: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-08-26 check, re-verified 2026-10-01. |
| 2026-10-01 | Adobe Podcast | Adobe Podcast: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-08-26 check, re-verified 2026-10-01. |
| 2026-10-01 | Ideogram | Ideogram: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-08-28 check, re-verified 2026-10-01. |
| 2026-10-01 | Suno | Suno: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-08-28 check, re-verified 2026-10-01. |
| 2026-10-01 | Udio | Udio: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-08-28 check, re-verified 2026-10-01. |
| 2026-10-01 | NotebookLM | NotebookLM: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-09-01 check, re-verified 2026-10-01. |
| 2026-10-13 | Cursor | Cursor: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-09-18 check, re-verified 2026-10-13. |
| 2026-10-26 | Bolt.new | Bolt.new: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-09-18 check, re-verified 2026-10-25. |
| 2026-10-26 | Lovable | Lovable: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-10-01 check, re-verified 2026-10-25. |
| 2026-10-26 | Replit AI | Replit AI: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-09-21 check, re-verified 2026-10-25. |
| 2026-10-26 | v0 | v0: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-09-18 check, re-verified 2026-10-25. |
| 2026-10-26 | Genjutsu AI | Genjutsu AI: first recorded pricing for a new listing, verified 2026-10-26 from the rendered pricing page (monthly, yearly and pay-once tabs). |
| 2026-10-27 | RapVideo AI | RapVideo AI: first recorded pricing for a new listing, verified 2026-10-27 from the served pricing page and its four locale mirrors; yearly Pro/Agency figures are client-rendered and remain unrecorded. |
| 2026-10-27 | CustomGPT.ai | CustomGPT.ai: first recorded pricing for a new listing, verified 2026-10-27 from the pricing page (Standard, Premium, Enterprise, and the monthly add-on list). |
| 2026-11-03 | Synthesia | Synthesia: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-09-18 check, re-verified 2026-11-03. |
| 2026-11-03 | CoCounsel Legal | CoCounsel Legal: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-09-18 check, re-verified 2026-11-03. |
| 2026-11-03 | AIDetector.cx | AIDetector.cx: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-10-08 check, re-verified 2026-11-03. |
| 2026-11-03 | ReelTada | ReelTada: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-11-02 check, re-verified 2026-11-03. |
| 2026-11-03 | Cursor | Cursor: recorded pricing updated since the 2026-10-13 check, re-verified 2026-11-03. |
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Methodology: every figure traces to the vendor's official pricing page with a checked date shown in AI Pricing Watch. Prices change often — verify on the vendor page before purchase. This report is research, not purchasing advice.