ChatGPT costs P1,120/month in the Philippines. Here's the P112 alternative.

If you're a developer in the Philippines, ChatGPT Plus costs $20/month — that's around P1,120/month at current exchange rates.

For context: that's not pocket change. For many Filipino developers, especially those freelancing or working for local clients, that's a meaningful slice of monthly income.

The math is brutal

OpenAI charges $20/month regardless of where you live. The price is the same whether you're in San Francisco or Cebu.

But your salary isn't the same.

A junior developer in the Philippines earns around P25,000–P35,000/month. ChatGPT at P1,120/month is 3–4% of your salary just to access AI tools that your competitors in the US pay less than 0.5% of their salary for.

That's a structural disadvantage baked into the pricing model.

What P112/month looks like instead

I built SimplyLouie as a flat-rate Claude AI wrapper. It runs on the same Anthropic Claude model that powers Claude.ai — but at P112/month instead of P1,120.

The API works too:

curl https://simplylouie.com/api/chat \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"message": "write me a REST API in Node.js"}'

Flat rate. No per-message billing. No usage anxiety. No surprise charges at the end of the month.

Why flat-rate matters for Filipino devs

Most AI tools charge per token or per API call. If you're a Filipino developer who uses AI heavily — generating code, writing documentation, debugging — the bill can spiral.

Flat-rate means:

• You can use it as much as you want
• You know exactly what you'll pay
• No billing dashboard anxiety
• No cutting corners on AI usage because you're worried about cost

The real cost comparison

Same underlying Claude model. One-tenth the price.

For Pinoy freelancers especially

If you're a freelancer on platforms like Upwork or OnlineJobs.ph, AI tools are a force multiplier. More output, better quality, faster turnaround.

But P1,120/month eats into margins when you're competing on price. P112/month doesn't.

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SimplyLouie Philippines — P112/month

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