Find my AI
What do you want to do with AI? Pick a goal, then a budget and country. We'll show three plans, ranked by independent leaderboards and official prices only. How we rank.
Best AI for writing and email, up to $30, USA
- Best pick Google AI Plus Google
US$4.99/mo
Gemini 4 Argon (High) is #1 on Arena Text (overall) (1524±9). - Also strong Claude Pro Anthropic
US$20.00/mo · Annual billing US$17.00/mo
Claude Opus 5.5 (High) is #3 on Arena Text (overall) (1508±7). - Also consider ChatGPT Plus OpenAI
US$20.00/mo
GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) is #22 on Arena Text (overall) (1484±8).
Any chat plan can write. Sorted by human preference votes on Arena's text leaderboard.
Full list: Best AI for writing
Monthly prices; annual billing is cheaper on some plans. Always check the provider's page before you pay.
How we rank
For each goal we keep plans within your budget that include the features that goal needs, then sort them by where the plan's best included model ranks on one leaderboard for that goal, and break ties by price. Nothing is blended or averaged. If a provider doesn't say which plans include a ranked model, we say so, and that plan sorts just behind plans that do. Free tiers are never credited with a provider's top model unless the provider says they include it. One plan per provider.
| Goal | Leaderboard used | Plan must include |
|---|---|---|
| Write & email | Arena Text (overall) | Any chat plan can write. Sorted by human preference votes on Arena's text leaderboard. |
| Research | LiveBench 2.0 Reasoning | Needs web search or deep research. Sorted by LiveBench Reasoning. |
| Study | LiveBench 2.0 Overall | Needs file uploads, study mode or notebooks. Sorted by LiveBench Overall. |
| Code & apps | LiveBench 2.0 Coding | Needs a coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Jules, Vibe). Sorted by LiveBench Coding. |
| Images | Arena Text-to-Image | Needs image generation. Sorted by Arena Text-to-Image. |
| Video | Arena Text-to-Video | Needs video generation. Sorted by Arena Text-to-Video. |
| Voice chat | No suitable leaderboard yet: sorted by price | Needs a voice mode. There's no clean voice leaderboard yet, so these are sorted by price. |
| Office & docs | No suitable leaderboard yet: sorted by price | Needs AI inside Word/Excel/Outlook or Gmail/Docs. Feature-based, sorted by price. |
| Agents & automation | No suitable leaderboard yet: sorted by price | Needs an agent, scheduled tasks or a browser agent. No agent leaderboard on our site yet, so sorted by price. |
| Free only | Arena Text (overall) | Free plans only. Sorted by Arena Text. |
Plain-English glossary
- Token
- A small chunk of text (roughly ¾ of a word in English). API prices are per million tokens.
- Context window
- How much text the AI can consider at once, including your files and the conversation so far.
- 5-hour limits
- Some plans (like Claude) give you a usage allowance that resets on a rolling five-hour window, with weekly caps on top.
- Usage credits
- Extra usage you can buy or turn on after hitting your plan's limit, billed at API rates.
- API vs subscription
- A subscription is a flat monthly fee for the app. The API is pay-as-you-go access for developers, priced per token.