Samsung may be about to charge for some Galaxy AI features for the first time, with a new leak suggesting a paid subscription could cost five dollars a month in the United States. Reports from SamMobile and SammyGuru say the company is preparing a Galaxy AI Premium plan alongside the free tools owners already use, with new capabilities offered by subscription or pay-as-you-go. Samsung has confirmed none of this, and the prices, plan names and launch date could all change before anything reaches the public.
The leak comes from material in an unreleased Samsung app published by SammyGuru on 8 November. Samsung had left the door open to charging: when Galaxy AI launched with the Galaxy S24 series in January 2024, the fine print said the features would be free on supported devices until the end of 2025, with different terms possible after that. That deadline has passed, and the company appears to be building the paid tier it kept in reserve. In a statement reported on 9 November, Samsung reassured owners its core Galaxy AI features will stay free, while adding that certain advanced capabilities or new services may be paid options in future.
Galaxy AI Subscription Plans and Pricing
According to the leak, Samsung is preparing three credit-based Galaxy AI plans: Starter with 10,000 credits, Plus with 20,000 and Pro with 50,000. It is still unclear how those credits would be used or what each operation would cost, so the numbers alone do not say how far an allowance would go.
Samsung will reportedly offer subscriptions and pay-as-you-go purchases, with separately bought credits valid for three years and not tied to the Premium subscription. Screenshots obtained by SammyGuru also show a Galaxy AI Premium screen inside the app. Strings within the app point to five dollars a month, or 48 dollars a year, which works out at four dollars a month, although that pricing may not be final. Other reports quote 4.99 dollars a month or 47.99 dollars a year; nothing is settled until Samsung announces it.
Free Galaxy AI Features Will Remain Available
The leak suggests Samsung will keep its existing Galaxy AI features free under a new category, Galaxy AI Core, including Browsing Assist, Creative Studio, Memory, Now Brief and Photo Studio, among other tools owners already use. The important change, if the leak proves accurate, is that those free tools would come with usage limits for the first time, and once the allowance runs out the user would need to buy a credit pack or upgrade.
Language translation, text summarisation and image generation could follow a separate pricing structure. Free users will reportedly get ten translations, five summaries and two image generations a day. An Essential tier would increase those limits tenfold, to 100, 50 and 20 a day, while a Premium tier would reportedly remove them entirely. Tier names differ between reports, some describing a free Standard plan and a paid Max plan, so the labelling may still be in flux.
New Galaxy AI Premium Features
Samsung is also reportedly developing new AI features reserved for its paid plans. Bixby Action could bring AI agent capabilities, letting users create routines that automatically carry out daily tasks when a trigger is met, such as a time or a location. Daily Briefing is expected on the Plus tier, although its purpose and how it differs from Now Brief remain unclear.
Gen Video will reportedly turn photos into short video clips using text prompts, a step beyond the still-image editing Galaxy AI already offers. Galaxy Claw could offer automation similar to OpenClaw for managing daily routines across apps, although some functions may overlap with Bixby Action. The overlap suggests Samsung is still working out how these tools fit together, and the final line-up may differ from the leak.
Availability
Samsung has not announced Galaxy AI Premium, its prices, or a release date for the new features. The reported pricing, credit limits and tiers remain unconfirmed, and the company has said nothing about which phones or markets would get the paid tier first. One clue in the leaked app is a check for Galaxy AI version 20271, which some reports read as a sign the paid plan could start with the Galaxy S27 series, a phone Samsung has not launched and which is expected early next year.
For Galaxy owners, nothing changes on their phones today. The free features they use now are expected to stay free, even if daily use is eventually capped, and the new plans would offer extra capabilities and higher limits to those willing to pay. The wider question is whether phone makers will stop treating AI as a free extra and start selling it as a service. Samsung promised in July last year that the Galaxy AI features that come on a phone by default would always be free, and the leak does not break that promise on paper, since no default feature moves behind the paywall. What it changes is the size of the free allowance, the detail owners will watch when Samsung finally speaks.
