Writing

ChatGPT

Featured Free (capped) · Plus-class ~$20/mo · Pro 100 ($100) / Pro 200 ($200) / Pro 500 ($500). Pro 200 usage steps down ~Oct 30 2026 for non-grandfathered/new allowance; Pro 500 is the Ultrafast tier. Verify on chatgpt.com / OpenAI Help — voice, images, agents, and Ultrafast burn allowance faster than plain chat.

Pay for one familiar general seat this month — not a second writing IDE or image studio “just in case.”

Claude

Featured Free · Pro (~$20/mo class) · Max (usage multipliers) · Team/Enterprise. API: Sonnet 5.5 list $2/$10 per MTok (cache read $0.20) — same sticker as Sonnet 5; Opus 5.5 $4/$20. Verify on claude.ai / Anthropic pricing — weekly/agent limits and effective $/task matter more than sticker.

Long-context judgment seat — pay when tone and multi-doc packs are the bottleneck, not for status.

Gemini

Consumer/Workspace tiers (Free→AI Premium / enterprise). Verify on Google—bundle with Workspace often decides ROI.

When the work already lives in Google—and ChatGPT is just another tab tax

Writesonic

Free trial / freemium history · paid creator and agency tiers (verify current names on writesonic.com). Do not assume list prices from old reviews.

SEO article volume with templates—not a replacement for taste or analytics

Notion AI

Free $0 · Plus $10/member/mo (Notion AI trial only) · Business $20/member/mo (Notion Agent, AI Meeting Notes, Enterprise Search beta, SAML SSO) · yearly saves up to 20%. Verified 2026-10-06 on notion.com/pricing.

AI that only pays off if Notion is already where the truth lives

Grammarly

Free · Premium · Business. Verify on grammarly.com — value collapses if you ignore suggestions anyway.

The polish layer you keep after the LLM drafts the mess