AI Black Friday deals: no ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini sale announced, and what they did last year

Is there a ChatGPT or Claude Black Friday deal this year?

No. As of 9 November 2026, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI and Perplexity haven't announced a Black Friday or Cyber Monday price. We read each company's pricing page that day. None of them shows a holiday offer, and we found no announcement of one from any of them. Black Friday falls on Friday 27 November, and Cyber Monday on 30 November:

That can change before the 27th. But the record so far points one way. None of these companies cut a subscription price for Black Friday 2025 either, as far as their own pages and posts show. Sites that list a "ChatGPT Black Friday coupon" are guessing or reselling. OpenAI and Anthropic don't publish coupon codes.

What did AI companies do for Black Friday last year?

They gave away usage around Black Friday 2025, on 28 November, and kept prices where they were. List prices didn't move. Three offers below come from the company's own pages, one from a partner's press release, and three only from press reports, which we mark as press-reported:

The only one shaped like a sale was Google's, and it arrived almost four weeks after Black Friday. We found it only in press reports. 9to5Google dated it 23 December 2025, later gave the end as 15 January 2026, and said it renewed at the full price after the first year. Anthropic's help center called its December offer a usage promotion, in an article that now returns 404 but still shows its terms in search results. It doubled limits and reset weekly caps on 25 December, and the price stayed $20.

xAI is the gap in this record. Deal sites say SuperGrok and X Premium+ annual plans were about 40% off over Black Friday 2025. We found no xAI or X post that confirms it, so we don't count it. India's free Go year is covered in what happens after free ChatGPT Go in India.

Did ChatGPT Plus ever go on sale for Black Friday?

No, not as a public sale. We found no Black Friday price from OpenAI on its pricing page or in its 2025 announcements, and it doesn't publish coupon codes. What OpenAI did on 24 November 2025 was launch shopping research. Its announcement said: "To help with holiday shopping, we're making nearly unlimited usage available to all plans through the holidays." That was a feature for buying other things, not money off ChatGPT.

Plus has cost $20 a month since it launched, and OpenAI still sells it monthly only. If you were hoping to grab Plus at a lower price on the 27th, expect the checkout to show the same $20 it shows today, because that's what it showed last year. So the cheapest ChatGPT on Black Friday is likely Go at $8, or the Free plan. ChatGPT Plus discount lists the real ways to pay less, and AI subscription price history shows how rarely these prices move.

Which AI discounts can you get today without waiting?

The standing discounts beat anything the AI labs ran last Black Friday, apart from Google's one-off half-price year. You can buy all of these on 9 November 2026. Each comes from the vendor's own page, read that day:

Pay yearly only for a tool you've already used for a month. A year up front is the deal these companies actually sell, so it's still there in December. Grok pricing breaks down every Grok plan, and the cheapest AI subscription ranks every plan by its everyday price.

How do you spot a fake AI Black Friday deal?

Check the price on the company's own site. A real ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini offer shows up on the vendor's pricing page, in its help center, on its official social account, or at checkout in your own account. A code on a coupon site doesn't count. Only the vendor's word does.

Three things on deal pages aren't real discounts. Shared or resold logins break OpenAI's and Anthropic's terms, and the account can be shut without a refund. "Lifetime" deals on third-party AI apps sell access to someone else's API key, which lasts only as long as that app does. And a "projected" Black Friday deal is a guess written as a fact. If the page can't link to the vendor's own post, treat the deal as made up.

Does Whizi have a Black Friday deal?

No. Whizi, which publishes this page, shows no Black Friday price on its pricing page as of 9 November 2026. Its standing offer is the same all year: the first 7 days cost $0.99 on Starter or $1.99 on Pro, then the full monthly price. Pro is $29.99 a month, or $19.99 billed yearly.

Whizi cuts the bill only if you'd otherwise pay for more than one chat app. Pro puts Claude Opus, GPT-6.1 Sol, Gemini models and Grok 4.7 in one chat. ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro together cost $40 a month. It won't help if you need one model only, since that company's own plan costs less. It also has no Codex, no Claude Code and no API. The cheapest way to use Claude and GPT prices the two-app setup four ways, and one subscription for every AI model shows what a single plan covers.

Should you wait for Black Friday to buy an AI subscription?

No, for ChatGPT, Claude and Grok. Their record says the price on the 27th will most likely match today's, and waiting costs you weeks of use. Buy monthly now, and switch to yearly billing once you know the plan fits.

Gemini is the one case where waiting has paid before. Google's half-price AI Pro year came on 23 December 2025, for new subscribers only, as 9to5Google reported it. If you've never paid for Google AI Pro or Google One, that's worth watching for. It isn't announced for 2026, so it may not come back.