2026 X (formerly Twitter) Subscription Plans: Full Breakdown — Get the Enhanced Grok for 200 TWD per month?

X is moving its subscription model toward a more aggressive, yet more structured, tiered system. X is no longer just selling “blue checkmarks”; instead, it clearly breaks the product into three levels: Basic, Premium, and Premium+, and—through pricing, traffic distribution weighting, AI capabilities, and monetization tools—builds a business model close to “content infrastructure.”

Get a 17% discount when you subscribe to X annually

First, you can see a clear tiering strategy in the pricing structure. Measured on a monthly basis, the Basic plan is $70, Premium is $187, and Premium+ jumps straight to $1,309; if you choose annual billing, they drop to about $58.5, $156, and $1,077.5 respectively, with a discount range of roughly 16% to 17%. This pricing lets different users choose between “whether they need higher visibility and stronger tools.”

Plan Monthly Annual (monthly avg.) Savings Basic $70 $58.50 16% Premium $187 $156 16% Premium+ $1,309 $1,077.50 17%

X Basic subscription service: only 70 TWD/month

At the most basic feature level, the “Basic plan” provides tools to optimize the user experience, not traffic and power. Users can edit posts, publish longer content, create bookmark folders, use curated content tags, and customize the interface to some extent. This tier’s reply ranking only provides a “slight improvement,” and it has absolutely no ad reduction or verification mechanisms, indicating that it’s positioned more as an efficiency tool for heavy users than as a traffic engine for creators or opinion leaders.

Does X Blue cost money? Pay monthly $187 and you’re in

Once you enter “Premium,” the product nature starts to change significantly. This tier not only includes all the features of the Basic plan, but more importantly introduces three core capabilities: identity, distribution, and monetization. First is the “verified checkmark,” which is essentially a ticket into the platform’s trust system. Second is “improved reply ranking,” making it easier for users to be seen in discussion threads—effectively the purchase of more visibility. Third is “reduced ads in summaries,” which improves the overall reading experience.

Even more notable is the integration of AI and creator tools. Premium users can use the enhanced version of Grok and receive higher usage quotas, while also unlocking advanced analytics to track content performance data. In addition, the platform opens up, at this tier, “writing articles” and “earning rewards through posts,” as well as “creator subscription services,” turning content from something merely published into monetizable assets. This means X is trying to transform itself from a social platform into a content economy platform.

Premium+ at $1300/month comes with $30 worth of SuperGrok

The highest tier “Premium+” is a product on a completely different level. First is “completely ad-free,” which is extremely rare among today’s ad-driven social platforms—equivalent to directly purchasing a pure, clean information feed. Second is an upgrade in AI capabilities: users can use “SuperGrok,” enjoy the highest-level usage quotas and priority access to new features, showing that X treats AI as a core component of subscription value.

In terms of traffic mechanics, Premium+ offers “the highest reply boost,” meaning it has the top priority for visibility in algorithmic ranking. It also includes professional tools like “Radar advanced search” and “X Pro,” helping users monitor information flows and market dynamics more effectively. Another new feature worth noting is the “number marketplace,” along with Premium+ exclusive mechanisms for applying for numbers, showing that account handles themselves are being treated as assets—scarce resources that can be traded or bid on.

Is X Premium+ worth buying? Users’ honest thoughts

Although X’s subscription plans look packed with impressive features on the surface, there is still a clear gap between the real user experience and the price tag. Taking the most talked-about AI feature, SuperGrok, as an example: in hands-on testing, its performance still falls well short compared with mainstream models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. If you pay for the subscription solely for this feature, you may end up severely disappointed.

The features that are truly worth considering, instead, are creator monetization mechanisms like “earning rewards through posts.” For creators who already have a certain follower base and actively operate on X, ad-revenue share earnings may partially offset the subscription cost. As for Premium+ exclusive “number marketplace,” it may also have some practical value for certain groups with account buying/selling or promotion needs, but clearly it doesn’t apply to most ordinary users.

Unless you’re a content creator with a clear monetization goal, it’s hard to say that X’s subscription plans are currently worth the money. With AI models flourishing everywhere and competition intensifying, if X wants to use SuperGrok as a paid incentive, it likely still needs a much bigger technical upgrade to truly convince users to spend this monthly fee.

Worth noting is that in April 2026, X announced that it would roll out X Money to users worldwide. It’s a full financial-services product embedded inside the social platform. Currently, it’s already undergoing a limited Beta test in the United States. Features include 6% annual interest rate deposits, personalized Visa metal billing cards, P2P transfers, and up to $250,000 in FDIC federal deposit insurance via Cross River Bank. Whether future subscribers will receive more benefits is something to watch.

(What is X Money? Complete introduction: 6% annual interest, Visa metal cards, and P2P transfers)

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