The ways people pay less

Buying the subscription at the Philippine App Store price. It is why the Philippines is the cheapest region in the table above for ChatGPT Plus and Pro, and its Pro price is 27% under Korea's.

Holding the peso price means keeping a Philippine store region or a Philippine IP, cards get declined often, and it breaks the vendors' terms.

Apple App Store 지역 가격 (GeoSub 집계)필쫀쿠 정리 글

Kiro bills its monthly plans prorated to the days left in the month. Subscribe at month end and the first charge is small enough for the $20 first-upgrade credit to cover it, so a Pro Max ($100, 5,000 credits) or Power ($200, 10,000 credits) month costs you nothing — with the full credit allowance.

The $20 is once per new account, and only when the first paid upgrade goes through social login or AWS Builder ID. How cheap the first month is depends on how few days are left. The name is community slang, not Kiro's.

kiro.dev/pricing키쫀쿠 정리 글

Anthropic's Claude Team plan for scientists is built for academic and non-profit research groups. Standard seats are free and Premium seats — five times the usage — are $15 per user per month, for 12 months. A principal investigator signs up, verifies eligibility, then invites the whole lab. The AI for Science Program sits beside it, giving free credits to high-impact research projects.

Verified research groups only, and a limited number of them — 10,000 seats worldwide — so it is not an open discount, and the rate is confirmed only after verification. It is free Standard seats and $15 Premium, not a percentage off; the "80% for professors" that circulates is not what Anthropic publishes. This is separate from a university buying a campus plan.

claude.com/programs/team-plan-for-scientistsAnthropic — expanding support for scientists

When Premium seats arrived on ChatGPT Business on 2026-08-25, workspace owners who had joined the waitlist got $100 in workspace credits for each Premium seat they added, up to five seats or $500. The community name comes from the sharing that followed: one Business workspace, several people on its seats.

The waitlist closed on August 20 and the promotion has ended, so this is a past event rather than a live route. Rotating several accounts through one workspace's seats also breaks OpenAI's terms.

OpenAI Help — Premium seat promotionopenai.com — Premium seats

Claude for Nonprofits gives registered nonprofits up to 75% off the Team and Enterprise plans, plus connectors to Blackbaud, Candid and Benevity and a free AI-fluency course. Organisations under 20 people verify their status with Goodstack and start there; larger ones go through sales.

It is up to 75%, not 80% — Anthropic's own wording — and the rate depends on the plan, so the fine print is only visible when you apply. Verification is not optional.

anthropic.com — Claude for Nonprofitsclaude.com — Goodstack 인증

A shared Gemini account from GamsGo. Its own page advertises $3.99 and its own comparison table puts GamsGo's Gemini Pro at about ₩4,900 a month for the same 5TB that Google's AI Pro charges about ₩29,000 for — north of 80% off. Gemini 3.1 Pro, Nano Banana 2 and Veo 3.1 come with it.

It is a shared account, so other people's use is in your session and sharing breaks Google's terms. And ₩300,000 is not a GamsGo annual price — it is Google AI Ultra's published monthly rate (₩119,000 or ₩300,000, for 20TB or 30TB); GamsGo lists Ultra in its comparison table but has no Ultra product, and that URL lands on its home page. The final price moves with the plan and the seller, so the checkout page decides. The name is the community's, not mine: the AI 활용 gallery uses 젬쫀쿠 for this route and also talks about renewing an 18-month subscription bought through India — I did not verify that one, and the figures here are GamsGo's.

gamsgo.com — 제미나이 공유 계정AI 활용 갤러리 — 젬쫀쿠

The "Gemini Pro 18-month pass" sold on Korea's second-hand markets is an India carrier promotion: a Jio SIM on an Unlimited 5G plan of ₹349 a month or more activates Google AI Pro in the MyJio app by OTP, and the resulting activation link is what gets resold. Logged into your own Google account, clicking it attaches 18 months. Asking around ₩60,000 on Danggeun for 18 months.

The plan belongs to the seller: the writeups say changing or cancelling it can revoke your activation under the promotion's policy, and somebody who earned a few tens of thousands of won has little reason to keep paying ₹349 for eighteen months. You are hanging a year and a half on a stranger's carrier plan, and this is not a product Google sells. The gallery also asks whether the India 18-month pass can be renewed twice — I could not confirm the renewal terms. Paying with a Korean card does leave a way back, but a narrow one: the card issuer can dispute it with the international card network, and according to the FSS guidance reported on 2026-06-09 that has to be filed within four months of the transaction and takes three to five months to settle. So it rescues an early revocation, not one in month twelve of eighteen. The name 인쫀쿠 is this site's, not a community one I could find.

제미나이 프로 18개월 이용권의 정체당근 18개월 제미나이 실체금감원 안내 — 해외 결제 이의제기 4개월