Strings inside a Samsung app list a Galaxy AI Premium “Max” plan at $4.99 a month or $47.99 a year, according to a teardown published by SammyGuru on 8 November and relayed by Android Authority on 9 November. The report says the plan sits inside an early access program that users opt into.
The annual price works out to about $4.00 a month, about 20% below twelve monthly payments, by our arithmetic. Samsung has not announced the plan; its own Galaxy AI page says “Future releases may include enhanced features or new services that are offered on a paid basis”.
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The key insight: Strings inside a Samsung app list a Galaxy AI Premium Max plan at $4.99 a month or $47.99 a year, according to SammyGuru’s teardown, while Samsung’s own page says basic Galaxy AI features are free and future features may be paid.
SammyGuru writes that “Samsung are working on an AI Premium subscription, which will give users more usage for existing Galaxy AI features, like Photo Assist and Browsing Assist, as well as granting access to new features”. It says the app notes that “any funds spent during the test period will be refunded once the program concludes”.
The free plan lists 7 Standard features: Browsing assist, Now brief, Creative studio, Smart capture, Samsung Keyboard, Photo assist and Personal Agent. SammyGuru says they “will be limited by usage limits”, and that “Once you run out, you’ll have to buy a credit pack to top up”.
The Max plan gives 4x the usage and adds three features, per the report: Gen Video, described in the app as “Generate AI videos from your photos”, Bixby Action, described as “Automate tasks across your apps”, and Daily Briefing, which has no description.
Reported Galaxy AI Premium Max prices are app strings found by SammyGuru (8 Nov 2026), not announced by Samsung; Google prices are from Google’s own plans page. The annual-plan monthly figure is our arithmetic.
Price, Devices and Regions
The prices come from app strings: “In US dollars, they list $4.99 a month or $47.99 when billed annually”. SammyGuru adds that the pricing is “subject to change, since Samsung’s servers and the Galaxy Store supply the actual prices”, and that the prices in its screenshots are placeholders.
On devices, the report says there is no device list but a gate for the AI version “suggests it’ll be exclusive to the Galaxy S27 series, at least initially”. It says the app has no region blacklist and that regions appear to be managed by the Samsung account.
Against Rivals’ Prices
Google’s own plans page lists Google AI Plus at $9.99 a month and Google AI Pro at $19.99 a month. At $4.99, Samsung’s reported Max plan is about half the first and about a quarter of the second, by our arithmetic; Google’s plans bundle cloud storage, which Samsung’s reported plan does not mention.
As we read the teardown, the free tier does not disappear but gains limits: SammyGuru says Standard features stay free with usage caps, credit packs and a Max plan with 4x the usage.
As we read Samsung’s footnote, the reported plan fits wording the company already publishes: it says future releases may include enhanced features or new services offered on a paid basis.
Samsung, US Galaxy AI page footnote
“Galaxy AI basic features provided by Samsung are free. Future releases may include enhanced features or new services that are offered on a paid basis.”
Three Implications
FOR GALAXY OWNERS SammyGuru says the Standard features stay free but will be limited by usage limits, with credit packs for top-ups.
FOR SAMSUNG The app strings list $47.99 a year, about 20% below twelve $4.99 payments, by our arithmetic.
FOR RIVALSGoogle’s own page lists Google AI Plus at $9.99 and Google AI Pro at $19.99 a month.
The framework says: “The subscription is not one product. It is three assets bundled at a single price.”
As we read it, the reported Galaxy AI tiers split that bundle out: a free tier with usage limits, credit packs, and a Max plan priced at $4.99 for more usage and new features.
What Is Not Established
Samsung has not confirmed the plan, its price, the test’s timing or the countries it covers. The device and region details are SammyGuru’s reading of the app code. The report gives no prices for credit packs, and the usage limits on the free plan are not quantified.
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A SammyGuru app teardown points to a $4.99-a-month or $47.99-a-year Galaxy AI Premium Max plan with 4x usage and three new features, while Samsung’s own page says basic Galaxy AI features are free and future features may be paid.
A note on sourcing. The Galaxy AI Premium plan, features and prices are from SammyGuru’s 8 November 2026 teardown of a Samsung app and its screenshots; Samsung has not announced them. Samsung’s quoted wording is from its US Galaxy AI page. Google prices are from Google’s own plans page. Annual-to-monthly and price-ratio figures are our arithmetic.
Gennaro Cuofano is a CRO and tech executive who has worked in AI since late 2015, starting with bringing NLP, natural-language generation, voice and chatbot products to the marketing industry. His background is in law and finance: he holds a Master's degree in Law and an International MBA with an emphasis on corporate finance (LUISS Business School and the University of San Diego, 2012), and worked as a financial analyst at a real-estate investment firm in San Diego and as an assistant controller. His work focuses on business model strategy, business engineering and, more broadly, structural analysis: how companies make money, read from their own filings. He created FourWeekMBA and leads research there and at The Business Engineer, his newsletter on AI and business strategy, with over 95,000 subscribers and more than 1,000 published analyses. His writing has also appeared on Entrepreneur (for example, How to Digitize a Family Business in Europe) and HackerNoon. Find him on LinkedIn and Substack. See how we source.
