Four Methods to Subscribe to ChatGPT Plus/Pro

On 2026-10-24 17:23, a post titled "ChatGPT Plus/Pro subscription: four methods to share" appeared on V2EX. The author describes 2026 as a time when doing video, copywriting, or coding is basically impossible without AI, and says they started using ChatGPT in 2025. At first they only checked error messages and wrote regular expressions in the web version, until codex came along, after which they could send prompts directly to codex and have it produce whatever was needed. However, the free tier barely works with codex: a few utterances may exhaust the allowance, and the most advanced models are unavailable, so anyone wanting better models has to subscribe to Plus or even Pro. The post notes that ChatGPT currently does not offer payment options to users in China, which has blocked many people, and the author personally tried several routes. They opened a virtual card, but after one or two top-ups it stopped working. They then tinkered with a US Apple ID, even buying a Hong Kong model iPhone for the purpose, but a purchased Apple ID also failed after one or two top-ups. Eventually they found it too troublesome and settled on third-party recharge services, paying a fee for the convenience. Based solely on this one source, the post stops at the sharing of four subscription methods and the author's personal experience; the source summary is truncated at the end, and the material does not support further assessment of impact.