What's everyone paying for AI plans?
ASKED BY · Jerry Hoyle · WESLEY CHAPEL, NORTH CAROLINA · 19 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:32:41
Craig spends thousands on work AI integrations (ChatGPT, cloud models); personally pays $20 Anthropic, $20 ChatGPT, $100 GrokBot, exploring Cursor; also using Granola for notes and evaluating Shadow for cost monitoring.
Guy pays $100/month for Grok Plus, $100-158/month for Claude (max plan), $21/month ChatGPT plus $8.75 API credits, with non-profit discounts potentially available but accounting overhead makes personal payment simpler.
John has ChatGPT and Claude 100 plans plus Grok access; heavily considering switching to Cursor IDE for consolidated model access including Grok 4.6 with better cost control.
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32:09that you want to produce media shows from. Thanks. All right, let's move to the next question, Courtney. Next one comes in from Jerry Hoyle in Wesley Chapel, North Carolina. What's everyone paying for AI plans? Yes, I stole this question from Guy. guy yeah so this one didn't get answered yesterday i was just curious because i was better to give up grok bots but then uh craig showed some cool stuff with mcp yesterday and
32:41the ai water cooler and it's got me scratching my head because i used to have a payroll of about eighty thousand dollars a month so i'm used to paying people some pretty big money because they deserved it they and then i look at what these bots could do and i'm like you deserve it too but i don't have the flow coming in that i used to for running an online store for 18 years but
32:57I'll show you my actual figures. So here's what I'm up against. Super Grok Plus is $100 a month. So I'm about ready to figure out if it says you'll keep your access until September 22. Just in the last 24 hours, I've been beating on them pretty good. And I'm pretty confident I'm going to keep that one. My expensive one is Claude. You can see here, I just dropped $158 on September 9. Usually,
33:19I'm running about $100 a month. There's been some back in March where I was at $200. I did upgrade. So this was, what do they call that when you do a partial billing? This is the max plan. So I shifted mid month because I was working on that MXL project. Oh, wait, I probably shouldn't show that cut. Okay. Yeah. Just wanted to make sure when I showed that, that it didn't show my
33:41address, but here is the next one, which is ChatGPT, 21 bucks a month. I did have to buy some um api credits so that one's eight dollar 75 you could see back in was that july i paid 105 bucks so there's my actuals i mean uh there there is some non-profit stuff that we could do i just didn't want to get into it because uh it's kind of complicated but through that tech soup and
34:05good stack we've been approved uh to get 50 off so for chat gpt it would be like uh ten dollars a month. They don't let you go to the $100 a month plan, unfortunately. But we could do something. I just figured the accounting of it all would probably cost us more than the $10 savings, because we'd have to be like, hey, Bob, you didn't pay last month. We're going to have to
34:30take out your office hours, ChatGPT account. But I would love to be able to have the organization help out in some ways. Because we do have some discounts on the Claude side, too. But it just take somebody to manhandle it and i'm just not prepared to deal with all the the rigmaram of it all so i'm just putting it all on my personal and not opening it up yet and john yeah so um
34:56i have a chat gbt 100 and the um cloud 100 i mean i have whatever the super x account one is so i get some grok access from that um i'm heavily considering switching to cursor we're using cursor at the office and uh it really is a really great uh way to kind of get access to most of the models uh you kind of miss access for you know a couple weeks while a new
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