AI assistant price hikes

Google AI Plus is losing Gemini Pro, keeping only Flash models · Oct 2026
Google is removing Pro model selection from the $4.99 AI Plus plan (effective November 13, 2026 per subscriber emails); Plus keeps Flash and Flash-Lite at the same price.
ChatGPT Pro 200 now gives new subscribers less usage for the same $200 · Sep 29, 2026
After pausing $200 Pro sign-ups on Sep 10, OpenAI reopened it as Pro 200 at $200/month with a lower included allowance, reported as about 10x Plus in ChatGPT Work and Codex instead of 20x, and added a $500 Pro tier.
Microsoft 365 Business Basic, needed for Copilot, rose from $6 to $7 · Jul 1, 2026
Microsoft raised commercial suite prices: Business Basic from $6 to $7/user/mo and Business Standard from $12.50 to $14 (annual), raising the base license a Copilot Business seat needs. Copilot SKUs were unchanged.
Claude made session limits run out faster during weekday peak hours · Mar 2026
Anthropic began draining 5-hour session limits faster for Free, Pro and Max users on weekdays 5am-11am PT; weekly limits were unchanged and about 7% of users were expected to be affected.
Claude added weekly usage caps to its $20 Pro and $100/$200 Max plans · Aug 28, 2025
On top of the rolling 5-hour session limits, Pro and Max subscribers got weekly caps (overall and for Opus); Anthropic estimated Pro at 40-80 hours of Sonnet 4 in Claude Code per week.
Google Workspace raised Business prices about 17% to bundle Gemini · Jan 16, 2025
Google folded Gemini into Workspace Business plans and dropped the separate Gemini add-on; Flexible prices rose from $7.20 to $8.40 (Starter) and $14.40 to $16.80 (Standard) per user.
Microsoft 365 Personal rose from $6.99 to $9.99 a month with Copilot · Jan 16, 2025
Microsoft bundled Copilot into Microsoft 365 Personal and Family in the US and raised Personal from $6.99 to $9.99/mo ($69.99 to $99.99/yr) and Family from $9.99 to $12.99/mo ($99.99 to $129.99/yr), the first increase…