X Premium Price 2026: $8.00/mo

As of Jul 2026, X Premium costs $8.00/month in the US — +168% from $2.99 in 2021, across 1 price hike. That comparison is the primary plan charted on this page: current US list price versus the stored launch price, with every intervening change kept as a dated event. The latest change took it from $2.99 to $8.00/month on Dec 12, 2022, as reported by TechCrunch. Each event links to a primary source — an official newsroom post or reputable reporting — listed in the pricing log below. Prices are US list prices in USD, excluding tax; promotional and app-store rates can differ. Subscription Price Guide is an independent index and is not affiliated with X Premium. Every statistic on this page — current price, total increase, hike count, highs and lows — is computed at build time from the stored event log, so the page, the structured data and the index cannot disagree.

X Premium comes in three tiers in the US: Basic at $3 per month ($32 per year), Premium at $8 per month ($84 per year) and Premium+ at $40 per month ($395 per year). Those are web prices — subscribing inside the iOS or Android app costs more because of app-store fees, so the cheapest way to subscribe is at x.com.

Basic ($3/month) adds post editing, longer posts and videos, and a small reply boost — but no blue checkmark. Premium ($8/month) adds the blue checkmark, roughly half the ads in your timelines, creator monetization and Media Studio. Premium+ ($40/month) removes ads from the main timelines entirely and adds the largest reply boost, Articles publishing, X Pro (TweetDeck) and the highest Grok AI limits.

Premium+ launched in October 2023 at $16 per month, rose to $22 in December 2024, then nearly doubled to $40 in February 2025 right after xAI released Grok 3 — a 150% increase in under 18 months, one of the steepest climbs of any subscription we track. X has positioned the tier as the premium way to access its Grok AI features.

No. Only Premium ($8/month) and Premium+ ($40/month) include the blue checkmark. The $3 Basic tier adds features like post editing and longer posts but no checkmark.

Yes. Annual billing costs $32 for Basic (versus $36 paid monthly), $84 for Premium (versus $96) and $395 for Premium+ (versus $480) — roughly one to two months free depending on the tier.

Not at the $8 tier anymore. Since March 26, 2026, X Pro — the multi-column dashboard formerly known as TweetDeck — requires Premium+ ($40/month). It had previously been available on the $8 Premium plan.

No. When Premium+ rose to $22 in December 2024, existing subscribers kept the old price only until January 20, 2025, and after the February 2025 jump to $40 they were migrated at their first renewal following March 22, 2025. Every Premium+ subscriber now pays the current $40/month or $395/year rate.

Cancel on the platform where you subscribed: on the web via your Premium subscription settings at x.com, or through Apple or Google subscription settings if you subscribed in the app. X recommends cancelling at least 24 hours before your renewal date; features stay active until the end of the paid period, and partial periods aren't refunded.