Virtual telcos bundle mobile plans with access to AI models for as low as $8 a month

Two local telcos have started a price war in the artificial intelligence space, bundling mobile plans with access to the latest paid AI models for as low as $8 a month.

- Jemima Ryan

Virtual telcos Circles.Life and giga!, a no-frills sub-brand of telco StarHub, offer similar benefits in their plans, with unlimited queries to each AI model, the ability to generate 300 images and up to 10 deep research articles a month through the telcos’ respective apps.

Circles.Life started the price war in the second quarter of 2025 with CirclesAI, which gives access to the paid versions of six popular AI models, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude.

The AI services are available through the Circles.Life app when customers buy a mobile plan that comes with CirclesAI.

The most basic AI bundled plan costs $8 a month. It comes with 500GB of 4G local data and unlimited local calls, as well as Circles.AI access.

On June 17, giga! jumped in, launching its gigaFLEX+ plan, providing access to 23 paid AI models from 11 tech providers for just $13.90 a month.

This price applies to the first 9,999 customers in the first year, after which the plan will cost $19.90 a month. The plan targets those aged 15 to 29.

While Circles.Life and giga! do not give access to the full range of features in premium AI plans, they allow users to try out various AI models and providers without paying for separate subscriptions by acting as AI aggregators via their proprietary apps.