Which AI subscription should you pay for?
Five questions about how you work, one recommendation from the plans we actually benchmark. Every claim links the published scorecard behind it; your answers never leave your browser.
Question 1 of 5
Prefer to reason it through yourself? How to choose a subscription walks through the same three decisions, with every plan name linking to its provider's pricing page.
The plan facts behind it
Every plan we track, cheapest first, with its tier on the provider's own ladder. Prices are public claims, snapshotted with a source and retrieval date (quiz config v40) - never blended into grades. A plan we have no sourced figure for shows no number; on the bench marks the plans our graded agents actually run on.
| Plan | Tier | Price | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cursor Hobby (free) | Free | $0/mo | cursor.com/pricing retrieved 2026-09-01 |
| ChatGPT Free | Free | $0/mo | chatgpt.com/pricing retrieved 2026-09-01 |
| Google AI Plus | Entry | $5/mo | one.google.com retrieved 2026-09-01 |
| ChatGPT Go | Entry | $8/mo | chatgpt.com/pricing retrieved 2026-09-01 |
| SuperGrok Lite | Entry | $10/mo | x.ai/grok retrieved 2026-09-01 |
| Kimi Moderato | Standard | $19/mo | kimi.com/pricing retrieved 2026-09-01 |
| ChatGPT Plus | Standard | $20/mo | chatgpt.com/pricing retrieved 2026-09-01 |
| Cursor Proon the bench | Standard | $20/mo | cursor.com/pricing retrieved 2026-09-01 |
| Google AI Proon the bench | Standard | $20/mo | one.google.com retrieved 2026-09-01 |
| Claude Pro | Standard | $20/mo | claude.com/pricing retrieved 2026-09-01 |
| SuperGrokon the bench | Standard | $30/mo | x.ai/grok retrieved 2026-09-01 |
| Kimi Allegretto | Standard | $39/mo | kimi.com/pricing retrieved 2026-09-01 |
| Google AI Ultra 5x | Heavy | $80/mo | one.google.com retrieved 2026-09-01 |
| Kimi Allegro | Heavy | $99/mo | kimi.com/pricing retrieved 2026-09-01 |
| Claude Max 5x | Heavy | $100/mo | claude.com/pricing retrieved 2026-09-01 |
| ChatGPT Pro 5xon the bench | Heavy | $100/mo | chatgpt.com/pricing retrieved 2026-09-01 |
| SuperGrok Plus | Heavy | $100/mo | x.ai/grok retrieved 2026-09-01 |
| Google AI Ultra 20x | Top | $180/mo | one.google.com retrieved 2026-09-01 |
| Kimi Vivace | Top | $199/mo | kimi.com/pricing retrieved 2026-09-01 |
| Claude Max 20xon the bench | Top | $200/mo | claude.com/pricing retrieved 2026-09-01 |
| ChatGPT Pro 20x | Top | $200/mo | chatgpt.com/pricing retrieved 2026-09-01 |
| SuperGrok Heavy | Top | $300/mo | x.ai/grok retrieved 2026-09-01 |