Free at launch. Premium when it's worth paying for.
Free tier covers everything Vice Atlas ships today and stays free forever. Premium opens September 2026 with a small set of features that earn the price — ad-free reading, mobile, personalization. Founder pricing is locked in advance for newsletter subscribers.
Free
The whole site as it ships today and through launch. No paywalls on core utility — that's a permanent rule.
- Every news article, guide, and predictions ledger entry
- Full GTA V + GTA VI codex (characters, vehicles, locations, weapons, missions, gangs, radio)
- Atlas — the living map, pins linked to codex entries
- Crews — public crew pages, applications, events
- Profiles — saved items, tracked characters, completed missions
- Comments on every entity
- Newsletter — monthly digest
Pro
Ad-free reading, mobile push, and the personalization features that don't belong in the free tier. The exact feature set gets finalized as we approach launch — these are the lanes.
- Ad-free reading across the site
- Custom Atlas markers + personal map layers
- Mobile push notifications for major news drops
- Premium-tagged deep-dive articles
- Early access to launch coverage
Subscribe before September 2026, lock the founder rate.
Newsletter subscribers get $29 / year, locked for life — the rate never goes up, even when standard pricing does. Plus 100 lifetime slots at $499 (one-time) for the people who want to be done thinking about subscriptions. The lifetime counter opens when premium does.
What premium does not do
- Paywall the codex. Every entry stays free, public, and crawlable.
- Lock news behind a wall. Every news article stays free at publish — premium gets earlier access to the launch-week coverage queue, not exclusive copy.
- Convert free features into premium features. The list above is what free includes today — none of it gets clawed back.