Subscription cost
How much is ChatGPT Plus per year?
A new kind of recurring cost, an AI assistant in the same monthly bracket as streaming.
per year on the Plus plan
That is $4,800 over 20 years, and that assumes the price never goes up again.
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| Period | Total paid | Inflation-adjusted |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | $240 | $240 adjusted |
| 5 years | $1,200 | $1,274 adjusted |
| 10 years | $2,400 | $2,751 adjusted |
| 20 years | $4,800 | $6,449 adjusted |
What else could that money buy?
- a used motorcycle
- 4 × a flight to Europe
- 8 × a weekend getaway
- 16 × concert tickets for two
About ChatGPT Plus
ChatGPT Plus is a newer kind of subscription, an AI assistant billed at a flat monthly rate, and it has rocketed onto many people's recurring expenses in just the last couple of years. At twenty dollars a month it sits in the same bracket as a streaming service, but it is often justified as a productivity tool rather than entertainment, which changes how people weigh it. Because the category is so new there is no long price history yet, but the multi-year projection is still revealing: even a flat fee compounds into four figures over a decade. If you pay for several AI tools, the overlap is worth auditing. Enter the plan above to see your ChatGPT Plus cost across 1, 5, 10 and 20 years with an inflation-adjusted line, and use the cancel-vs-invest view to frame the subscription against the alternative use of the money.
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How to cancel ChatGPT Plus
- Sign in at chatgpt.com and open Settings from your profile menu.
- Open the Subscription section and choose Manage, which opens the billing portal.
- Choose Cancel plan and confirm.
- Plus features remain until the end of the current billing period. If you subscribed through the iOS or Android app, cancel through Apple or Google Play instead.
Open the ChatGPT Plus account page
Cancellation flows change. If a step looks different, the provider's own help pages have the current version.