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Meta Platforms to test subscription models with enhanced features and AI capabilities across core apps
- It’s unknown what the subscription will offer in Facebook and WhatsApp but the subscription in Instagram could allow users to create unlimited audience lists, see followers who don’t follow you back, and ability to view a Story without the poster knowing you have seen it.
- The subscription could also give users unlimited access to Vibes, its feature for creating and remixing AI-generated videos.
- It also plans to feature Manus in the subscription model.
- It’s not know yet how much Meta plans to charge for the subscription.
- Snapchat+ offering priced at $3.99 per month for exclusive features, already has 16 million subscribers (around 2% of the 943 million MAU in Q3 2025), more than doubling since early 2024.
Assessment
Assuming 2% of around 3.5 Meta users signed up for this subscription feature and Meta charges the same fee as Snapchat ($3.99 per month), it could generate around $279 million per month and $3.3 billion per year in the next two years from it. However, given Meta’s larger resources (compared to Snapchat), it may be able to scale the subscription faster.
