ChatGPT costs KSh2,600/month in Kenya — here's the KSh260 alternative Kenyan developers are using

ChatGPT costs KSh2,600/month in Kenya — here's the KSh260 alternative Kenyan developers are using If you're a developer in Nairobi, Mombasa, or anywhere in Kenya, you already know the math. ChatGPT Plus = $20/month = KSh2,600/month . That's not a rounding error. That's a significant chunk of a junior developer's monthly salary in Kenya. For many developers, it's more than a week's worth of groceries. And yet, the global tech discourse assumes everyone can just... subscribe. The assumption baked into AI pricing When OpenAI priced ChatGPT at $20/month, they were pricing for San Francisco, London, and Tokyo. They weren't pricing for Nairobi. They weren't pricing for Lagos. They weren't pricing for Manila. The result: some of the world's most talented developers — building real products, solving real problems — are locked out of the best AI tools. Not because they're not good enough. Because of where they were born. This is a competitiveness issue. If a developer in California has access t