Audit your AI subscriptions in 30 days

The half-hour test tells you whether a tool can do the job. It cannot tell you whether you will still open it in week three, whether the price survived a billing cycle, or whether the export you rely on still works. This is the slower checklist: four weeks, one subscription at a time, ending in a keep, downgrade or cancel decision you can defend.

Why 30 days

A month is the shortest window that contains a billing cycle, a busy week and a quiet one. The half-hour test is a filter; this is the settlement.

How to use it

Pick one subscription. Spend about ten minutes a week on it. Tick what you have actually done, not what you intend to do. The page stores your ticks in this browser only — no account, no email, no server — and it will not score you or tell you to cancel.

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Checked state is stored in this browser only. No account, no email, no server.

Week 1 — Inventory

Inventory is the week people skip, and it is the week that finds the subscription you forgot.

• List every AI subscription you pay for, including annual ones you forgot about.
• For each, write the plan name and the renewal date.
• For each, finish this sentence in one line: "I pay for this because it ___." If you cannot, that is the finding.
• Note the card or account it bills to, so cancelling does not turn into a hunt.

Week 2 — Use test

This is the three-task test from the half-hour guide, spread over a week of real work.

• Keep a rival's free tier open in a tab all week.
• Count how many times you open the paid tool without a task forcing you to.
• Run the three-task test on the paid tool: the bread-and-butter task, the edge case you know you will hit, and the task a competitor does better.
• Score each run: 0 send as-is, 1 two minutes' fix, 2 full rewrite. Add them: 0–2 does the job, 3–4 is a draft machine, 5–6 is about your task rather than for it.

Week 3 — Price re-read

Read the vendor's page yourself, not a review site's summary. Write down the plan, the figure, the date and the URL — the four things that make the number checkable later.

• Open the vendor's own pricing page. Write down the plan, the figure, the date and the URL.
• Find out what a credit or a "use" actually is on your tier.
• Find what throttles on the tier you would keep: speed, queue priority, model choice.
• Find what happens to unused allowance at the end of the month.
• Find the renewal and cancellation path, including the notice period.

Week 4 — Decide

A decision you can defend, and one reminder you set yourself.

• Export one real piece of work and check it opens outside the tool.
• Decide: keep, downgrade or cancel. If keep, set a reminder for the day before renewal. If cancel, confirm it in writing and check access ends when they said it would.
• Save your three test prompts and re-run them after the next announced model update.

What this checklist will not tell you

It will not tell you what to cancel. I do not know your work, your budget or what you would miss.
It will not total your spending. Plans vary by region, billing period and seat count, and a total built from stale figures is worse than no total.
It will not remind you by email. Collecting an address would create an account surface this site does not have. Set the reminder in your own calendar.
It will not prove a tool is good. It proves whether this subscription is earning its renewal, which is a different question.

Keep reading

• How to evaluate an AI tool before you pay for it — the half-hour test behind Week 2.
• All tool profiles — each carries a written verdict and the month its price was read.
• How pricing is checked — why a date and a source sit next to every figure.
• Updates and corrections — every substantive change to this site, dated.

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