Which subscriptions went up in 2026?

The confirmed US moves so far: Spotify Premium rose a dollar in January, Netflix raised every US plan on March 26, and YouTube Premium climbed in April for the first time since 2023. Outside the US, OpenAI doubled the Turkish price of its mid tier in June while leaving the budget tier untouched.

What is live right now?

Eighteen services have fully dated country tables as of 29 Aug 2026, including the music streamers and one gaming pass that were blank earlier this year. Anything without a verification date stays off the board rather than getting a borrowed number.

Did the mid-tier AI plan jump from twenty dollars to two hundred?

No. That changelog pair is the mid tier sitting next to the top tier on the same storefront. Charting it as a ten-times hike is the most common mistake we see in other trackers.

Is Turkey still the cheap country for AI subscriptions?

Mostly not anymore. OpenAI doubled its Turkish price in June 2026 to just above the US level, and several vendors repriced TRY upward through the year. Turkey still wins for Disney+, Notion, NordVPN and Grok, so check the service page instead of assuming.

Why did the board get bigger this year?

Because the storefronts got scraped again, not because we lowered the bar. Music streaming, anime and one gaming service earned dated rows in August 2026 under the same rule as everything else: local price, date, source URL, or nothing.

How often do these tables change?

When a storefront is fetched again. A cell that comes back unchanged keeps its original verification date, so an old date means checked-and-stable, not abandoned. Same-plan movements land in the changelog with both sides sourced.

Does the final bill add tax on top?

It depends on the storefront. Some App Store regions show tax-inclusive prices and others add tax at billing, which is why two neighbouring countries can differ by more than any real price move. We record the storefront number and flag tax notes per row rather than adjusting anything.

Subscription price watch 2026

This is a status board, not a rumor roundup. A price watch built from unsourced screenshots is how this niche filled up with the same fake Nigeria streaming figure on forty sites. We print what we fetched, dated, and leave the rest blank.

The headline this month: the watchlist itself grew. In August 2026 the board added dated country tables for Spotify, Apple Music, Max, Crunchyroll, Deezer and Xbox Game Pass — categories that sat empty all year. Eighteen services now carry verification dates.

The watchlist, service by service

Every figure below was verified 29 Aug 2026, converted at that day’s ECB rate.

Service	Where it is cheapest right now	Trend in 2026	What to watch
ChatGPT Plus	Philippines $16.16 vs US $19.99	Turkey doubled to ₺999.99 (~$20.86) in June; a $100 mid-Pro tier appeared in April	Whether the June Turkish move spreads to other markets
Claude Pro	Pakistan $17.69 vs US $20	Near-flat globally; regional discount lives almost entirely in app stores	Web-vs-app price split Anthropic keeps quiet about
Gemini	Plus Turkey $4.17 vs US $4.99	Budget tier holding steady through the AI repricing wave	Google bundling changes rather than sticker moves
Perplexity Pro	Pakistan $17.69 vs US $20	Flat	Annual-billing promos, which never hit monthly rows
Grok	SuperGrok Turkey $27.12	Turkey cheapest here while it got pricier for rivals	X bundle pricing
YouTube Premium	Nigeria $1.63 vs US $20.99	US hiked in April, first time since 2023; web checkout bills less than the app store	Whether the web/app gap widens
Netflix	Standard Pakistan $2.89 vs US $19.99	All US plans raised March 26	Premium gap abroad: Pakistan Premium is $3.97 vs US $26.99
Spotify	Individual Nigeria $1.18 vs US $12.99	US +$1 in January after 20-plus markets moved in 2025; gift cards discontinued; stricter residence terms	More market-by-market increases
Apple Music	India $1.45 vs US $11.99	Quiet year after 2025 moves	Regional payment rails changing
Disney+	Basic Turkey $5.22 vs US $11.99	US raised October 2025; Turkey still deeply discounted	Whether Turkey follows the AI vendors’ lead
Max	Standard Pakistan $2.89 vs US $18.49	New to the board	First full-year trend needs a second dated pull
Crunchyroll	Fan Pakistan $1.01 vs US $9.99	New to the board	Deeper discounts than Netflix in matched countries
Microsoft 365	Personal Egypt $4.74 vs US $9.99	Stable	Family-plan regional pricing
Notion	Plus Turkey $10.43 vs US $11.99	Small spread	AI-add-on pricing, where the spread is wider
Xbox Game Pass	Ultimate Japan $9.74 vs US $22.99	Turkey repriced DOWN in Microsoft’s 2026 refresh — the rare reverse move	Region-lock rules tightening
NordVPN	Monthly Turkey $8.34 vs US $13.99	Website deals undercut every app-store row	Renewal jumps after intro periods end
Surfshark	Monthly Turkey $9.39 vs US $10.99	Same pattern	Two-year web deal math vs monthly IAP
ExpressVPN	Monthly Egypt $4.96 vs US $12.99	Nearly flat worldwide — arbitrage barely exists	Local-currency billing rollout

Start browsing at the homepage, AI subscriptions, streaming, vpn, or productivity hubs.

The 2026 story so far, in three moves

1. The US hiking season ran January to April. Spotify went up a dollar in January. Netflix raised every US plan on March 26. YouTube Premium followed in April, its first increase in three years. If you track only one region, that spring cluster is the story — and it matches the pattern from 2024–25, when hikes arrived in waves rather than one at a time.

2. AI pricing got restructured, not just raised. April brought a new $100 middle tier between Plus and the $200 flagship. June brought the shock: Turkey’s mid tier doubled from ₺499.99 to ₺999.99 over a few days, landing just above the US price and killing the oldest arbitrage play in the category. The budget Go tier was left alone — cheap AI still exists, just not where it used to. Full timeline: ChatGPT Plus Turkey price hike.

3. Turkey flipped from villain to wildcard. After the AI repricing, you would expect Turkey to be dead across the board. It is not: Turkey is currently the cheapest verified row for Disney+ Basic, Notion Plus, Gemini Plus, both NordVPN plans, Surfshark monthly and Grok. Country reputations lag reality by months — which is exactly why every claim here carries a date.

Changelog noise you should ignore

The history file contains pairs that look like ten-times hikes: US 19.99 to 200, Turkey 999.99 to 9999.99 TRY, India 1999 to 19900 INR. Those are two different tiers sitting next to each other on the same storefront, not an overnight 10x increase. We will not chart them as such on this page or anywhere else.

A real movement needs the same service, country, and plan on two sourced dates. Below that threshold it is a hypothesis — including community memories of old Turkish prices, which stay unsourced until we hold the older row. Provable same-plan movements go to the price changelog; the narrative version lives at biggest subscription price increases 2026.

Snapshot figures people ask us to “watch”

ChatGPT Plus is not cheaper in India in USD — the rupee price converts to roughly the US level. YouTube is dramatically cheaper in Nigeria. Netflix Standard is dramatically cheaper in Pakistan. But these are current cells, not trends: a trend needs two dates on the same plan. Longer arcs: subscription price trends 2026.

If you are watching your own bill rather than the industry, screenshot your renewal line tonight. VPN website intros expire quietly, and app-store billing does not use that intro math at all. More in the auto-renewal trap.

How to read a cell on this site

Every live price carries a verification date. On this pull that date is 29 Aug 2026. USD conversion uses the ECB rate for that day, not “this morning,” and the versus-US column is only defined when a US row exists for the same plan name.

Blank still means unchecked — never free, never “use last year’s blog.” Midjourney and Copilot have thin coverage for exactly this reason. We would rather look unfinished than copy a competitor’s number.

App store versus web matters more than most guides admit. These boards are App Store catalogue prices unless stated otherwise. YouTube’s Nigerian price is the in-app figure; paying on the website can differ, sometimes hugely. Gift cards are a per-service question, not a rule — they work for some vendors’ subscriptions and were discontinued outright by the biggest music streamer.

Empty cells are the point of the watch. Filling them from a competitor would make the board look complete and make the site false.

How a cell earns its source URL, date, and USD conversion: methodology.