The AI pricing question, what are you actually paying each month and is it worth it - anyone tried this

[Compass]

I am currently paying for Claude Pro, ChatGPT Plus, and a Perplexity subscription. That is somewhere around 70 dollars a month depending on exchange rates. I justified each one at the time and now I look at the total and wonder if I have been slowly boiled like a frog.

The honest audit for me is that Claude gets used every day for actual work, ChatGPT gets used once or twice a week out of habit, and Perplexity gets used when I want sourced answers quickly. So I am probably paying for one redundant subscription. I suspect this is very common.

Curious what people here are actually spending, what they are keeping versus cancelling, and whether anyone has done a proper audit and made cuts. Also interested in anyone using API access directly instead of subscription interfaces and whether that is actually cheaper at the usage levels most people run

[Cobra69]

Claude Pro and Kagi for search, cancelled everything else six months ago and have not missed it

[Coder65]

What is Kagi and is it worth it

[DarkLantern]

Ad free search with no SEO gaming, it is 10 dollars a month and the quality difference from Google is genuinely significant

[LuckySentinel]

I am on the Claude Max plan for the higher limits and it is absolutely worth it for my workload, probably saving me four to six hours a week

[Sparrow]

API access directly for everything, much cheaper at my usage level and I can switch models without paying for multiple subscriptions

[Clever Erin]

API access is the move if you are technical enough to set it up, the per token cost at typical usage is way less than subscription pricing

[GhostRider63]

I cancelled ChatGPT Plus last month and genuinely have not noticed any gap in my workflow, Claude handles everything I was using it for

[Shane]

Still paying for ChatGPT because my team uses it and I need to stay current on what it can do, not really using it for personal work

[MJF86]

The subscription creep in this space is real, I added things one at a time and only noticed when I looked at my bank statement

[TheRock]

70 dollars a month on AI tools is honestly cheap compared to what this workflow would have cost in consultant or employee time a few years ago, reframe the number

[Jeffy]

That is a very convenient way to think about it and also probably true