AI tools · Charles Sieg

The AI tools I pay for.

A plain list of the AI subscriptions and models I run, what each plan costs at list price, and where to read more.

10 tool pages60 sourcesChecked November 5, 2026

These are the AI subscriptions and models I pay for and use. Some are flat monthly plans, some bill by usage, and one runs on my own machine for free.

This site covers each tool on its own page: what it is, the plan I'm on, what the vendor says it's good at, the general job I give it, and who makes it. Every fact links to its source, and the plans and prices come from each vendor's own page, checked November 5, 2026. Prices are US list prices on that date. I don't use affiliate links.

The roster

ToolPlanHow manyList price a month (US)Page
Claude (Anthropic)Ultra8$200 each1Claude
ChatGPT Pro (OpenAI)Pro, $200 tier3$200 each2OpenAI
Google AI UltraUltra 20x1$199.993Google
Muse (Meta)Maximum1$1004Muse
Grok (xAI)Not listed yetNot listed yetTiers run $0 to $2005Grok
Jev (TypeSafe)API, billed by usagen/a$42 per billion input tokens6Jev
ExaAPI, billed by usagen/aA free monthly credit, then pay as you go7Exa
ReplicateAPI, billed by usagen/aVaries by model and run time8Replicate
ElevenLabsScale1$2999Voice
RimeNot listed yetn/aFree, pay per minute, or plans from $10010Voice
KokoroOpen weights, run locallyn/a$0, no subscription; Apache-2.0 weights11Voice
SunoStarting soonn/aFree, or paid plans from $1012Music

Monthly total at list price for the plans with a flat price (arithmetic, not a bill): 8 × $200 = $1,600 for Claude, 3 × $200 = $600 for ChatGPT Pro, $199.99 for Google AI Ultra, $100 for Muse, and $299 for ElevenLabs Scale, which comes to $2,798.99. Grok comes on top once I list its tier, and the usage-billed rows aren't in it.

Every tool

One page each: the plan, what it's good at, what I use it for, and who makes it.

Anthropic

Claude

Eight Claude Ultra plans, at $200 a month each, from Anthropic.

8 × Ultra5 sources

OpenAI

ChatGPT Pro and Codex

Three ChatGPT Pro plans from OpenAI, for Codex and research.

3 × Pro ($200 tier)4 sources

Meta

Muse (Meta)

One Muse plan from Meta, on its top tier, for general AI work.

1 × Maximum9 sources

TypeSafe

Jev (TypeSafe)

Jev, TypeSafe's System One model, for typed AI judgments in my software.

Billed by usage3 sources

Exa

Exa

Exa, a search API built for AI agents.

Billed by usage8 sources

Replicate

Replicate

Replicate, for running open image, video, and audio models through an API.

Billed by usage5 sources

Music

Suno

Suno, an AI music generator I'm about to start using.

Starting soon7 sources

Sources

  1. Pricing. Anthropic (Claude), checked November 5, 2026.Vendor pageRead

    What it says: Lists Ultra at $200 a month: everything in Max plus no 5-hour limit for verified accounts, 10x Pro usage every week, and $200 a month in API credits (up from $100 on Max). Max is $100 a month with 5x Pro usage, Fable up to half the weekly limit, early access, and priority access; Pro includes Claude Code, Research, and Projects. The page does not mention a 20x tier.

  2. Pricing | ChatGPT Learn. OpenAI, dated November 5, 2026.DocumentationRead

    What it says: Pro comes in "$100, $200, or $500 USD per month" plans. Codex is included on Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Edu, and Enterprise. Fast mode counts 2.5x and the Ultrafast modes 8x against included usage; Ultrafast is on Pro $500 and eligible Enterprise/Edu plans. Reached via redirect from developers.openai.com/codex/pricing.

  3. Get more out of Gemini. Google (Gemini), checked November 5, 2026.Vendor pageRead

    What it says: Google AI Ultra: "Starting at: $99.99 / month" and "$199.99 / month" for the higher tier. Includes the highest access to Gemini 4 Argon, Google Flow credits, higher Antigravity agent rate limits (5x or 20x by tier), YouTube Premium individual, Google Home Premium Advanced, Project Genie, and storage starting at 20 TB. Gemini app usage described as up to 20x higher than Pro.

  4. About Muse subscriptions | Meta Help Center | Meta. Meta (Help Center), dated November 5, 2026.DocumentationRead

    What it says: Lists two paid Muse plans: Power at $20/month with "500M Muse tokens per week" and Maximum at $100/month with "3B Muse tokens per week"; Muse is also free with a usage limit (no figure given). The page never uses the name "Max" for a Muse plan and shows no currency code or token definition. Renews automatically each month; sold at muse.ai and in the mobile app; "Muse and Muse subscriptions are in limited testing and aren't available in all locations yet." Undated, checked today.

  5. Introducing The X Subscription. xAI, dated October 12, 2026.Press releaseRead

    What it says: Tiers: Free $0, Plus $8 (base), Premium $30 (4x Plus), Super $100 (15x Plus), Ultra $200 (50x Plus). Premium carries "the benefits of SuperGrok, Cursor Pro, and X Premium+, previously $90/month combined." Gives no SuperGrok price and does not mention SuperGrok Heavy.

  6. Home - TypeSafe AI. TypeSafe AI, checked November 5, 2026.Vendor pageRead

    What it says: TypeSafe is "an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation"; Jev is in early access. Lists "$42" per billion input tokens. No plans or tiers listed; founders and headquarters not stated.

  7. Pricing. Exa, checked November 5, 2026.Vendor pageRead

    What it says: Free Tier $0 with $10 in credits (up to 2,500 Lite searches), resetting to $10 on the first of each month. Pay-as-you-go: "no subscription and no minimum spend." Per 1,000 requests: Search lite/instant $4, auto/fast $7, Deep Search deep-lite/deep $12, deep-reasoning $15; Contents $1 per 1,000 pages; Answer $5; Monitors $2; results above 10 cost $1 per 1,000. Agent API fixed-effort prices run $0.012 to $1.00 per request. Enterprise is custom; a dashboard option costs $12,000 upfront and includes $12,000 in credits and 25 QPS.

  8. Pricing. Replicate, checked November 5, 2026.Vendor pageRead

    What it says: Most public models bill by run time at a per-second hardware rate; some bill per unit (flux-1.1-pro $0.04 per image, flux-dev $0.025, wan-2.1-i2v-480p $0.09 per second, wan-2.1-i2v-720p $0.25 per second). T4 $0.81 an hour, H100 $5.49 an hour. Private models bill for all online time including idle.

  9. ElevenLabs Pricing for Creators & Businesses of All Sizes. ElevenLabs, checked November 5, 2026.Vendor pageRead

    What it says: Scale is $299 a month: 1.8M credits a month, 3 workspace seats, everything in Pro plus Team Collaboration and 3 Professional Voice Clones. Pro is $99 a month (600k credits); Business is $990 a month (6M credits, 10 seats).

  10. Rime AI Voice Pricing and Plans for Businesses. Rime, checked November 5, 2026.Vendor pageRead

    What it says: Free $0 (no card; $50 of usage a month, no rollover). Flex: no monthly fee, billed by the minute. Scale: $100/month with $100 of credit a month, rolling over up to $200. Enterprise: custom, billed annually. Per minute, Flex / Scale: Mist v3 text to speech $0.030 / $0.024, Coda v2 text to speech $0.050 / $0.040, Prism speech to speech $0.080 / $0.064, Rime STT $0.002 / $0.0016 (free until Nov 19). Text to speech is "metered by characters generated, about 1,000 characters per minute." Coda v2 lists 313 curated voices, Mist v3 78; custom voices are Enterprise-only. No currency label; commercial use not addressed.

  11. hexgrad/Kokoro-82M · Hugging Face. Hugging Face, checked November 5, 2026.Vendor pageRead

    What it says: An open-weight TTS model with 82 million parameters, Apache-licensed. Architecture from Li et al. (StyleTTS 2); trained by @rzvzn on Discord. v1.0 published 2025-01-27 with 8 languages and 54 voices; v0.19 (2024-12-25) had 10 voices.

  12. Suno | Pricing. Suno, checked November 5, 2026.Vendor pageRead

    What it says: Monthly and Yearly toggle ("Save 20%" on Yearly). Free $0: 50 credits per day, free models, no commercial rights, no monthly song downloads. Pro $10/month month-to-month ($8/month billed $96/year): 2,500 credits and 20 song downloads per month, best models, commercial use rights. Premier $30/month ($24/month billed $288/year): 10,000 credits and 60 song downloads per month, best models, commercial use rights, Suno Studio access. Subscription credits "do not carry over from day to day or month to month." "See the terms of service for limitations on commercial use."