Developer Reviews AI Subscription Costs, Drops Volcano Cloud and Kimi Plans

On October 3, 2026, a developer posted on V2EX a breakdown of what he currently pays for AI subscriptions, listing each service he plans to keep and each one he is dropping. The three reports collected here carry the same title, summary and quoted text, so they amount to one post rather than separate accounts, and no conflicting figures appear across them.

Two subscriptions stay. He keeps 5 OpenAI Team seats at $45 per month and 1 Claude Pro at $20 per month. A third item, Grok heavy, also continues on an annual plan costing 7,100 yuan per year.

Two subscriptions are being cancelled. Volcano Cloud's coding plan pro is currently priced at a promotional 50 yuan per month and returns to its list price of 200 yuan next month, so he will not renew. The 2 Kimi legacy 199 plans, billed at 398 yuan per month, are not being renewed this month. Two more items sit in limbo: an earlier opencode go subscription at $5 is on hold now that the $5 discount is gone, and the DeepSeek platform still holds 40 yuan of unused balance from a top-up.

The post closes with his plan going forward: he will keep paying only for the OpenAI seats and Claude Pro, and will occasionally buy a single month of something else when a promotion shows up. The matter rests there for now — a user's own subscription list and the reasoning behind it, with no pricing announcements from the vendors and no reported response from other users.