Our Mission
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Why SubsCheap exists
A subscription costs someone in New York one hour of work. In Dhaka, Delhi or Lahore, it costs twenty.
New York
1 hour
of work, for the same $20 subscription
0.5% of a month’s income
Bangladesh · India · Pakistan
20 hours
of work, for the same $20 subscription
9% of a month’s income
Same product. Same price. Nineteen extra hours of someone’s life.
Everyone here knows exactly what these tools are worth. The student knows what ChatGPT would do for her thesis. The freelancer knows which contracts he loses to someone abroad who has ChatGPT, Grammarly and the rest of them. Knowing was never the problem.
The price was written for another economy. It just got charged to ours — and to 1.9 billion people living the same arithmetic.
The price never drops for our part of the world. So we did something about it.
We buy at the full price the platform asks. Then we make that access reachable for people who could never meet it alone. What you pay covers the purchase and the work of keeping it running.
A win-win-win business model.
Three parties in every transaction. All three come out ahead. That was the condition we set before we started, not a result we noticed afterwards.
WIN 1
The Company
The platform
Full price, from a customer it would never have had.
We are a paying customer like any other. Almost none of these buyers would have subscribed at full price on their own.
WIN 2
The Seller
SubsCheap
A margin for real work.
Buying, maintaining, and staffing support the platform does not offer here at all. A fee for a service. No interest, no debt.
WIN 3
The Purchaser
You
Access that was out of reach, at a price that is not.
Priced for the economy actually being lived in — and you know before paying exactly what is shared and what is personal.
Nothing hidden — shared or personal is stated before you pay
No interest, no debt — you pay for a service and you receive it
We carry the cost — we buy first, at full price, before anyone pays us
The benefit is real — these tools get put to work, not collected
Shared access is a bridge. It is not the destination.
Sharing an account is what we can do today. It is not what we want.
The real fix is a personal subscription. Your own account, your own login — from a company that already understands that twenty dollars does not mean the same thing in Dhaka as it does in New York, and prices accordingly.
Those companies are being built right now. Not cheap imitations — tools good enough to replace what the big tech companies make, built by people who never forgot which income they were pricing for. We partner with them. We sell their tools.
SkalaGPT
AI built for students — essays, lab reports, study guides, deadlines.
xHumanizer
Humanizing AI-written text, priced for the people using it.
Every one of them moves somebody off a shared account and onto their own. That is the direction. Shared access got us here — it is not where we intend to stop.
We cannot change what the big tech companies charge. We can change who gets to use them — and we can help build the ones that never priced us out to begin with.
This is what that looks like
She finishes the thesis.
He wins the contract, and the payment comes home in foreign currency.
She teaches the lesson she could not have taught last year.
He gets the interview, on a letter he could not have written alone.
She sells to her first customer outside the country.
A note: this is our own reasoning about our own work, set out as honestly as we can — how we see it, with nothing dressed up.