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Annual vs monthly prepaid: the maths nobody shows you
An annual pack is almost always cheaper per day — but the gap is smaller than the marketing suggests, and there are three situations where paying monthly genuinely wins.
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How prepaid pricing actually works, where the offers hide, and which savings are worth the effort of chasing.
An annual pack is almost always cheaper per day — but the gap is smaller than the marketing suggests, and there are three situations where paying monthly genuinely wins.
The two discounts run on different rails and are applied by different parties, which is exactly why platforms block the combination more often than they allow it.
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