As subscription services continue to rise in price, people looking to save money will inevitably want to find countries where subscriptions are cheaper. In the past, that meant relying on your own Google searches or asking an AI. Now, there’s a handy online tool called “OpenTheRank” that organizes prices for popular subscription services across many countries, allowing us to compare prices quickly and directly. It even includes prices for games and Apple hardware, and it’s completely free to use.
OpenTheRank makes it easy to compare prices of global subscription services and quickly find the cheapest country to buy from.
OpenTheRank is a free price comparison website dedicated to organizing “global regional pricing.” For people who regularly subscribe to services like ChatGPT, Netflix, and Spotify, or buy games on Steam and Nintendo Switch, it lets you quickly see how the same product is priced across different countries, and find out which regions offer the lowest and highest prices. Beyond digital subscriptions, it also includes Apple hardware such as iPhones, covering a fairly wide range.
The biggest feature of this website is that it turns the originally troublesome process of checking prices across countries into a ranking list. Taking ChatGPT as an example, once you enter the page, it directly lists each country’s subscription price, the converted USD price, and how much cheaper or more expensive it is compared to the US price. The cheapest and most expensive countries are also clearly marked, so there’s no need to switch stores one country at a time to check. Some services also separate regional pricing for the App Store and Google Play, allowing both iPhone and Android users to find the corresponding data.
As for currency, it’s not just USD; it supports switching between multiple currencies such as TWD, JPY, EUR, GBP, and HKD. This way, users in Taiwan can directly switch to New Taiwan Dollars for viewing, which is much more convenient than opening a separate exchange rate website to convert. The website also shows the exchange rate update date currently in use, making it easy to tell how fresh the price data is.
However, it should be noted that cheaper prices in other countries don’t necessarily mean you can directly make cross-region purchases. Many subscription services now have protective measures in place to prevent users from subscribing across regions.
Key Features
- Free to use, no account registration required.
- Compare the prices of the same product in different countries at once.
- Automatically compiles global lowest prices, highest prices, and price rankings.
- Supports popular AI services including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and more.
- Includes streaming and subscription services such as Netflix, Spotify, and more.
- Supports price comparison for Steam, Switch eShop, and mobile games.
- A compilation of global prices for Apple hardware, including the iPhone.
- For some services, you can view App Store and Google Play prices separately.
- Supports switching among multiple currencies, including TWD, JPY, USD, EUR, HKD, and more.
- Some countries will display taxes, payment requirements, and cross-region risks.
Click the link above to go to OpenTheRank, then scroll down to see all the listed subscription services, games, and Apple hardware. There are many types of subscription services, including AI, streaming, image and video editing, productivity tools, education, and social dating. For games, there are also mobile, Steam, and Switch options.
Once you enter any category, you can see the price rankings for each subscription service, with the cheapest countries at the top. For example, ChatGPT is cheapest in the Philippines, Pakistan, and Canada. The country at the bottom of the list is the most expensive—ChatGPT is priciest in Denmark, with a price difference of 74% compared to the cheapest option in the Philippines. It’s worth noting that this website doesn’t include prices for Taiwan, so you’ll need to compare on your own to see if it’s cheaper than in Taiwan.
As for the streaming part that many people care about, Netflix’s three cheapest countries are currently Pakistan, Egypt, and Nigeria. I never expected that in Switzerland, the most expensive, Netflix subscription prices would be a whopping 884% more expensive than in Pakistan, the cheapest. That’s crazy:
Some subscription services have different plans; once you enter the service’s page, you’ll find the switching option:
The default currency is USD, and it can be changed to TWD:
Apple hardware covers everything from iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch to AirPods:
Steam games only include a few popular games, not all:
The App Store games are the same, only a small number of popular games:
Even Apple gift card prices are available, but I think the number of platform websites being compared is a bit few:
Each platform website also marks the risk level and a link to Trustpilot reviews:
Also compiled a benchmark leaderboard for AI models:
Source: KOCPC Chinese