Which Game Pass tier do you actually need?
Tick what you want to play and where you play it. The tool returns the cheapest tier that genuinely covers you — the trap being that Essential has no day-one releases at all, and Premium only gets select Xbox-published ones, within a year of launch. Prices and rules are Microsoft's own, read off xbox.com on 2 August 2026.
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Games you want
August 2026 titles confirmed so far. Microsoft's own Wave 1 post had not appeared when this was built, and will add more.
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Where you play
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Compare with buying them
Enter what these games cost in your store. Left blank, the comparison is skipped — regional prices differ too much for a default to mean anything.
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Every tier, as Microsoft lists it
| Tier | Per month | Games | Day one | Devices |
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Read card-by-card off xbox.com on 2 August 2026, US pricing. Game counts are Microsoft's own rounded claims. Day-one wording is theirs, not a summary.