Methodology: Official AI subscription limits tracker
Official AI subscription limits tracker
- Conditions
What we track. Consumer and team plans of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Mistral, Grok, GitHub Copilot and Perplexity. Published API usage tiers are tracked separately. ChatGPT Free, Plus, Pro and Business plans are registered for daily reading of OpenAI's official help pages. Pro tiers and Business seat types are separate plans; Business is the current name of Team.
Collecting before publication. New ChatGPT plans remain Collecting until each displayed price or limit has successful source readings on two separate dates. Only successful readings of the official source count as observations.
Prices by country. The country table includes the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and Australia. Local prices are still being collected. Each price requires a source for that country in its local currency; US-specific pages are used only for the United States. Prices and tax details are taken directly from the source. Australia stays visible while its first local reading is pending. The country page remains outside the search index while coverage is incomplete.
What counts as a value. We record the vendor's wording of each usage limit from its public pricing or help page, with the source URL, reading date and archived response. A number is recorded only when the vendor states it; a qualitative limit stays a quotation. A missing value is never replaced with zero. Monthly billing and monthly equivalents of annual billing are kept separate, as are individual plans and Business seat types.
How the reader works. Each run checks the source's robots.txt, requests its public English page and archives the response bytes. Extraction rules are tied to the plan and billing period. If the page is blocked, the wording changes, the plan boundary is missing or the price is ambiguous, the result is Unknown with no number. Interactive challenges are not bypassed.
Scope. This section records published subscription terms. Account allowances and enforcement of limits are outside its scope. Our API speed and quality tests are described in the main methodology.
Frequency and changes. Pages are scheduled for daily reading. The record retains the date of each attempt and the source wording. A confirmed change compares successful readings; repeated requests on one date do not satisfy the two-date requirement.
AI Subscription Limits Watch. This indicator counts tracked subscription plans whose published limits contain numbers, separately from plans described only in words. Prices and API usage tiers are excluded from that count.
Version. Method introduced on 29 September 2026; API tiers added on 11 October, Perplexity and country reading on 17 October, and ChatGPT plan collection and local-currency safeguards on 19 October 2026.
- Coverage
- On : 35 AI subscription plans from 8 providers, and 11 API usage tiers.
- Region
- the United States