Samsung is preparing a paid tier for Galaxy AI, and a leak has finally put a number on it: $4.99 per month, or $47.99 per year. The evidence was found inside One UI 9.5 and first reported by 9to5Google, citing SammyGuru, with GSMArena and PhoneArena picking up the same details.
It is still a leak, not an announcement. Samsung has never officially confirmed pricing or a launch date, and it has spent two years saying it had no plans to start charging. If the strings hold up, this would be the biggest change to Galaxy AI since the suite arrived.
Galaxy AI Premium price and plans
The leaked sign-up screen shows a monthly subscription at $4.99 and a 12-month option at $47.99, which works out to roughly $4 per month. GSMArena cautions that the prices visible in the screenshots should be ignored and that the $5 figure comes from strings inside the app, so treat the exact numbers as unconfirmed.
Alongside subscriptions, Samsung is said to be preparing one-time credit packs. Three tiers appear in the code: Starter with 10,000 credits, Plus with 20,000 and Pro with 50,000. It is not clear what a single credit buys, and the credits bought as pay-as-you-go are described as valid for three years and separate from the Premium subscription.
- Galaxy AI Premium subscription: $4.99/month or $47.99/year (leaked, unconfirmed)
- Credit tiers: Starter 10,000, Plus 20,000, Pro 50,000
- Pay-as-you-go credits: separate from the subscription, valid for three years
- Current Galaxy AI features: free, moving under a Galaxy AI Core label
What stays free and what you would pay for
The good news in both reports is that existing features stay free. Browsing Assist, Creative Studio, Memory, Now Brief, Photo Studio and the Samsung Keyboard AI tools would sit under a Galaxy AI Core label rather than behind a paywall.
