AI Tech Stack Pricing Guide for First-Time Users | Notion

Updated: October 8, 2025

Core AI Tools - Head-to-Head Comparison

Feature	ChatGPT Plus	Claude Pro	Perplexity Pro	Microsoft 365 Premium	Google AI Pro
Monthly Cost	$20	$20 ($17 annually)	$20	$19.99	$19.99
Best For	General content & reasoning	Long-form documents	Research & sourced facts	Office ecosystem integration	Google Workspace users
Strengths	GPT-5, o3 models, versatile	Analytical, 200K context	Real-time search, cited sources	Full Office suite included	2TB storage, Gemini 2.5 Pro
Weaknesses	Can be verbose	No real-time web search	Limited creative writing	Requires Microsoft ecosystem	Newer platform
Context Window	128K tokens	200K tokens	Varies by source	128K tokens	1M+ tokens
File Uploads	✅ Images, docs, PDFs	✅ Large files (30MB)	✅ PDFs, audio, video	✅ Office files native	✅ Images, docs
Web Search	✅ Real-time	❌ Limited (Jan 2025 cutoff)	✅ Real-time with sources	✅ Real-time	✅ Real-time
Coding Help	✅ Excellent (Codex CLI)	✅ Excellent	✅ Basic	✅ Good	✅ Good
Data Analysis	✅ Advanced	✅ Advanced	✅ Research-focused	✅ Excel native	✅ Sheets native
Storage Included	❌ None	❌ None	❌ None	✅ 1TB per user (6 users)	✅ 2TB

What's New in October 2025:

ChatGPT:

New Pro tier at $200/month with unlimited access to o3-pro, GPT-5, and reasoning models
Plus stays at $20/month with 80 messages to GPT-4o every 3 hours
Access to Sora (limited video generation) and Deep Research

Claude:

Pro remains $20/month ($17/month annually)
New Max 5x tier at $100/month for professional developers
New Max 20x tier at $200/month for power users
All tiers now include Claude Opus 4.1 and Sonnet 4.5

Perplexity:

Pro stays at $20/month ($200/year)
New Max tier at $200/month ($2,000/year) with unlimited Labs, early access to Comet browser
Education discount: $4.99/month for verified students/faculty

Microsoft Copilot: