Best AI Deals Right Now (October 2026): Verified Discounts on ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and More

The best AI deals right now, in October 2026, are Google AI Pro free for 12 months for US college students, ChatGPT Plus free for 4 months for students (claim by October 31), Cursor Pro free for a year for university students, and, for everyone, Claude Pro and Perplexity Pro at $200 a year, Google AI Plus at half price for two months and ChatGPT Go at $8 a month. We verified every deal below on the company's own pages, and none of them need a coupon code.

Quick answer: students should claim the free Google AI Pro year and the free ChatGPT Plus months first, because the ChatGPT offer ends on October 31. Everyone else should switch the AI tools they already use every day to yearly billing, which saves 17% to 67% depending on the tool.

Best AI deals at a glance (October 2026)

Each deal has its own page on ScoviAI, where the community votes it hot or cold.

Best AI deals for students

Students have the best AI deals by far. If you study at a US college:

1. Google AI Pro, free for 12 months: higher Gemini limits, 5 TB of storage and study tools. Sign up by December 31, 2026.
2. ChatGPT Plus, free for 4 months: the $20 plan at no cost. Claim by October 31, 2026; it renews at $20 a month afterwards.
3. Cursor Pro, free for a year: the AI code editor's Pro plan with $20 of model usage each month.
4. GitHub Copilot for students: free through the GitHub Student Developer Pack.
5. Notion Plus, free: with a school email; see our Notion student discount guide.
6. Perplexity Education Pro: $10 a month instead of $20.

More in our complete AI student discounts guide. Teachers have their own list: free AI tools for teachers.

Best AI chatbot deals for everyone

• Claude Pro yearly: $200 instead of $240, which is two months free. Details in our Claude Pro price guide.
• Perplexity Pro yearly: also $200 instead of $240. See every option in our Perplexity Pro discount guide.
• Google AI Plus: $7.99 a month, with 50% off the first two months for new subscribers, shareable with five family members. Compared in Google AI Plus vs Pro.
• ChatGPT Go: $8 a month for about 10x the free plan's usage. Compared in ChatGPT Go vs Plus.
• Microsoft 365 Personal: Office plus Copilot for $99.99 a year. See our Copilot Pro price guide.

For the full price table, read our guide to the cheapest AI subscription.

Best AI deals for writing and productivity

• Grammarly Pro: $12 a month on the yearly plan instead of $30 monthly, a 60% saving.
• Paperpal Prime: $144 a year instead of $25 a month, more than half off, for academic writing.
• Taskade Pro: $10 a month on yearly billing instead of $20, for up to 10 seats.
• Todoist Pro: $60 a year instead of $7 a month, with Todoist's AI features.
• Wispr Flow for students: 3 months free, then $6 a month for AI dictation.

Best free AI deals (no payment at all)

• Adobe Podcast: AI Enhance Speech free for up to an hour a day.
• Dreamina: 120 free AI image and video credits every day. See our free AI video generator guide.
• Perplexity Comet: Perplexity's AI browser, free for everyone.
• Office 365 Education: free Office web apps and Copilot Chat for students and educators.
• Developers: free API tiers from Gemini, Groq and Cerebras, and $30 of free compute a month on Modal. Full list in our free AI API guide.

Deals ending soon

• ChatGPT Plus for students: claim by October 31, 2026.
• Google AI Pro for students: sign up by December 31, 2026.
• Google AI Plus 50% off: a limited-time offer for new subscribers, with no end date announced.

We keep a live list of deals close to expiring on our Ending soon page.

Black Friday 2026 is coming

Black Friday falls on November 27, 2026, and Cyber Monday on November 30. Some AI companies run holiday sales, usually on yearly plans. We'll list every verified offer on our AI Black Friday deals page as soon as it's announced. Until then, the deals above are the best prices available.

Which AI deals are worth it for you?

A deal is only a saving if you'd use the tool anyway. Here's how we'd spend (or not spend) money, depending on who you are:

• College student: claim Google AI Pro and ChatGPT Plus for free, add Cursor or GitHub Copilot if you code, and Notion Plus for notes. Total cost: $0 for months.
• Writer or marketer: one assistant on a yearly plan (Claude Pro or Perplexity Pro at $200), plus Grammarly Pro on the yearly plan if you edit a lot of text.
• Developer: the free API tiers for side projects, one AI code editor, and a yearly plan only for the assistant you open every day.
• Family: Google AI Plus or Microsoft 365 Family, because one subscription covers several people.
• Casual user: stay on free plans. The free versions of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity cover a few questions a day.

The most common way people waste money on AI is paying for two or three overlapping $20 plans. Pick one main assistant and put the savings into a yearly plan.

How we pick and verify deals

• Official sources only. Prices and terms come from each company's own pricing, help or education pages.
• No fake urgency. If a deal has no end date, we say so.
• Community temperature. ScoviAI members vote deals hot or cold, and our editors add a short verdict.
• Updated often. We check deals regularly and mark expired ones.

Spotted a deal we missed? Post it on ScoviAI and the community will vote on it.

Sources: Google AI Pro for students; ChatGPT for students; Cursor for students; Claude pricing; What is Perplexity Pro?; Google AI Plus in the US; What is ChatGPT Go?; Grammarly plans; checked in October 2026.