GTA+ With GTA 6 Pre-Order

The free month of GTA+ that comes with a digital pre-order is a nice bonus with one trap built in, and the trap is timing. Activate it today and it burns out weeks before the game exists. This article is mostly here to stop you from doing that.

GTA+ costs $7.99 / €7.99 / £6.99 per month after the free one, prices as of September 2026, and it renews automatically once activated.

Official page: GTA+ at Rockstar Games · What the pre-order includes

What the deal actually is

Pre-order GTA 6 digitally on PS5 or Xbox and a month of GTA+ lands on your account as a bonus. Two fine-print lines matter. First: digital only. The boxed edition is a download code in a box, and that code carries no GTA+ month. Second: the clock starts when you activate, and you can sit on the offer until March 31, 2027.

That second line is the whole game. Thirty days is thirty days, wherever you place them.

The right way to play it

Don’t touch the offer now. Activate it around November 19, and the free month covers your first weeks in Leonida instead of an empty October. One activation per platform account, tied to where you pre-ordered, so there’s no clever double-dip — just pick the moment.

And the minute you activate, walk into your console’s subscription settings and switch off auto-renewal. The month stays yours to the last day; the only thing that changes is that December doesn’t quietly cost you eight dollars. On PS5 that’s Settings → Users and Accounts → Account → Payment and Subscriptions; on Xbox it’s the Subscriptions page of your Microsoft account. Thirty seconds, and future-you says thanks.

What’s inside today — and the honest unknown

Right now GTA+ is a GTA Online membership, the old one attached to GTA V: GTA$ 500,000 dropped in every month, the Vinewood Car Club with its rotating garage, storewide discounts, and a small catalog of classic Rockstar games to stream or download. If you still dip into GTA Online while waiting, the free month pays for itself in the half-million alone.

What GTA+ does inside GTA 6 itself is the question Rockstar hasn’t answered. My guess as a longtime GTA Online tourist: the subscription is being groomed for whatever the new online becomes, and the free month is Rockstar handing every pre-order customer a taste in advance. But that’s reading tea leaves, and I’d rather you plan around what’s written: a month of perks, yours to schedule.

Pre-order, park the offer, activate in November, kill the auto-renew. Four moves, zero wasted days, and the only subscription in your GTA 6 launch is one you got for free.

FAQ

How do I get the free month of GTA+?
Pre-order GTA 6 digitally on PS5 or Xbox. The free month comes with the digital pre-order only — the boxed version’s download code doesn’t include it. You can activate it any time until March 31, 2027.

How much does GTA+ cost after the free month?
$7.99 / €7.99 / £6.99 per month, and it renews automatically once activated. Cancel in your console’s subscription settings if you don’t want month two.

What does GTA+ give in GTA 6?
Nobody knows yet — Rockstar hasn’t announced GTA 6 perks. Today the subscription serves GTA Online: GTA$ 500,000 a month, the Vinewood Car Club, discounts and a small catalog of classic Rockstar games.

Everything here comes from official Rockstar materials. Analysis is labeled. We don’t publish leaks.