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Best AI around $20 a month
Recalculated 9 hours ago · engine v1.5.0

ChatGPT Plus

#2 overall · $20/month

The highest score overall is ChatGPT Pro (82.9) at $100/month. For around $20 a month, ChatGPT Plus is the best you can get, 1.8 points behind.

81.1
Very good · Which AI Score
Medium confidence
  • Access to the strongest models we track — GPT-6.1 Sol: 168.5 on the Epoch Capabilities Index
Source: help.openai.com · manually verified
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Category leaders
Overall
ChatGPT Pro82.9
Coding
Claude Max (20x)90.1
Best value
Google AI Plus87.4

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Rankings

15 Nov 2026
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Which AI ranking for overall
#PlanScorePrice30-day
1
ChatGPT Pro
GPT-6 Pro (Astra) in Chat, and GPT-6 Astra and Sol in Codex with much higher allowances
82.9
$100
/month
No changeMedium confidence
2
ChatGPT Plus
GPT-5.6 in Chat. GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra in Codex, Astra with a small allowance (about 5–45 messages per 5 hours).
81.1
$20
/month
No changeMedium confidence
3
Claude Max (20x)
Everything in Pro. Fable only on paid usage credits.
80.5
$200
/month
No changeHigh confidence
3
Claude Max (5x)
Everything in Pro. Fable only on paid usage credits.
80.5
$100
/month
No changeHigh confidence
3
Claude Pro
Opus, Sonnet and Haiku. Fable only on paid usage credits.
80.5
$20
/month
No changeHigh confidence
6
Google AI Ultra (20x)
Highest access to Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.1 Pro
71.2
$199.99
/month
No changeMedium confidence
Last limit resetCodex and ChatGPT50 days agoClaude54 days agoAll resets →

Are people happy paying for it?

20% of the overall score · how this works

The question benchmarks cannot answer, and the one that changes fastest. We pool recent App Store reviews, reader votes and public discussion, show nothing below 30 opinions, and keep it separate from benchmark data. Tell us what you think.

Gemini
91%Worth it
1,000 App Store reviews (4–5 stars count as worth it)

Is Gemini worth paying for right now?

Grok
82%Worth it 1 ptsup 1 points this month
670 App Store reviews (4–5 stars count as worth it)

Is Grok worth paying for right now?

ChatGPT
78%Worth it 4 ptsdown 4 points this month
1,000 App Store reviews (4–5 stars count as worth it)

Is ChatGPT worth paying for right now?

Perplexity
69%Mostly worth it 10 ptsup 10 points this month
244 App Store reviews (4–5 stars count as worth it)

Is Perplexity worth paying for right now?

Claude
57%Mostly worth it 11 ptsup 11 points this month
575 App Store reviews (4–5 stars count as worth it)

Is Claude worth paying for right now?

What changed

Only changes that affect whether something is worth paying for.

  • API priceOpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol: input token price increased from $4.00/Mtok to $4.40/Mtok
  • API priceOpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol: output token price increased from $20.00/Mtok to $22.00/Mtok
  • API priceGoogle: Gemma 4 26B A4B : output token price decreased from $0.26/Mtok to $0.23/Mtok
  • API priceGoogle: Gemma 4 26B A4B : input token price decreased from $0.08/Mtok to $0.07/Mtok
  • API priceOpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol: input token price decreased from $4.40/Mtok to $4.00/Mtok
  • API priceOpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol: output token price decreased from $22.00/Mtok to $20.00/Mtok
  • API priceGoogle: Gemma 4 26B A4B : input token price decreased from $0.08/Mtok to $0.08/Mtok
  • New modelGoogle released Gemini 4 Hydrogen
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