I Audited Every AI Tool Subscription I Was Paying For — Here's What I Found

I hit a moment two months ago where my bank statement stopped making sense. Line after line: Claude Pro ($20), ChatGPT Plus ($20), GitHub Copilot ($10), Notion AI ($10), Perplexity ($20), Midjourney ($10). I didn't even use half of them regularly. I just kept renewing because canceling felt like effort. So I did something I'd been avoiding: I sat down and actually counted. The Full Picture Here's what I was paying for, roughly bucketed: AI Writing/Chat: Claude Pro — $20/mo (used daily for coding + writing) ChatGPT Plus — $20/mo (used maybe twice a week) Perplexity Pro — $20/mo (used for research, maybe 3x/week) AI Coding: GitHub Copilot — $10/mo (used constantly) Cursor Pro — $20/mo (overlap with Copilot, mostly ignored) Design/Productivity: Figma — $15/mo (legitimate, daily) Notion AI — $10/mo (duplicate of Claude for writing) Linear — $8/mo (barely touched since switching to GitHub Projects) Total: ~$123/month I was spending over $1,400 a year on subscriptions I'd assembled organical