Leak Details Samsung’s Plans: Galaxy AI Premium at $5 a Month
A detailed leak says Samsung will keep current Galaxy AI features free and add a paid Galaxy AI Premium subscription with three credit tiers. Strings in the app suggest $5 monthly in the US, or $48 for 12 months. Samsung has not confirmed any of it.
A detailed leak details Samsung's plans to charge for new Galaxy AI features through a Galaxy AI Premium subscription, with strings in the app pointing to $5 a month in the US. Samsung has not confirmed any of it.
The leak was first published by SamMobile, and SammyGuru has screenshots of the subscription screen. Prices shown in those screenshots should be ignored, according to the reporting. The $5 figure comes from text strings inside the app.
What stays free
Features Galaxy phones already have will remain free. They move under a label called Galaxy AI Core, which covers Browsing Assist, Creative Studio, Memory, Now Brief and Photo Studio, among others.
Samsung has talked about charging for Galaxy AI for some time. The change was expected in 2025 and did not happen. It did not happen in 2026 either.
Plans and prices
The leak describes three Galaxy AI plans: Starter with 10,000 credits, Plus with 20,000 credits and Pro with 50,000 credits. What a single credit buys is unclear.
Samsung would offer both subscriptions and pay-as-you-go. Credits bought pay-as-you-go would last three years and sit apart from the Galaxy AI Premium subscription.
In the US, the app strings suggest $5 monthly. A 12-month plan would cost $48, or $4 a month.
Daily limits for translation, summaries and images
Language translation, text summarization and image generation appear to follow a separate tier structure. Free users would get 10 translations, 5 summaries and 2 image generations a day.
An Essential tier would raise those limits tenfold, so 100 translations a day instead of 10. The Premium tier would remove the limits.
New features
Bixby Action may be the name of a rumored agentic Bixby feature. It would let users build system routines for daily tasks, along with triggers for them.
Daily Briefing would arrive on the Plus tier. It is not clear how it differs from Now Brief. Gen Video would turn photos into video clips from text prompts.
Galaxy Claw looks like Samsung's answer to OpenClaw. It would automate daily routines and may overlap with Bixby Action.
Readers commenting on the report were skeptical. One wrote that "they want to make everything subscription based."
