Opinion with respect. The cost of diamond is insane!

I'm thankful this site has a free option and have respect that they do this. I just feel that the cost of diamond isn't in line with nearly anything comparable. All the streaming services are literally half the monthly cost of this. Heck game pass is. even cheaper, do you think they will ever bring the price down? What is the benefit here for around 240 a year? Do people with this think its worth the price? What features make it worth it to you?

Diamond is the highest level of premium membership: there are lower levels too if you're not using all of those tools. I just wanted to get rid of the most annoying ads, so I'm happy with gold.

They've modified it once in the last 5 or 6 years. I think it's more a matter of people oversubscribing - paying for services they're never going to use, like a gym membership

It's more like a gym membershiop you pay like 10 bucks a month

Or think of it like joining a chess club with an entry fee of ten bucks a month

I thought diamond was 20 a month? Is it 10?

The site raised the subscriptions in September 2023 for the first time in 14 years. It's not likely that rates will drop but there have been some instances of special rates during events in the past year. That could happen again.

If you pay for a year in advance it's equivalent to $10 a month. If you pay monthly it's more.

Ok thanks for the info.

10 a month is definitely more attractive, but I wish it were available in 3 payments per year or something. Paying it upfront is very expensive to a lot of people.

Yea if there was no free option they would lose 50 % of the players here. Theres plenty of other free options for chess with that said for 10 a month I think over all its worth it. They do a good job.