Pre-order Grand Theft Auto VI digitally and Rockstar gives you a free month of GTA+. It reads like a GTA 6 perk. It is not a GTA 6 perk in any sense.
It is a month of a subscription to a different game — the current GTA Online, running on Grand Theft Auto V — and it converts into a recurring charge unless you stop it. Rockstar has not hidden any of this. It is also not what most people think they are getting.
What It Actually Is
Is the Month Any Good?
On its own terms, actually yes — if you play GTA Online. GTA+ carries a monthly rewards drop (July’s was the 52nd), a GTA$ stipend, vehicle and property perks, and access tied to the current update cycle. July brought The Kortz Center Heist, a multi-stage art-theft job requiring an Art Studio addition to the Mansion property — one of the larger additions GTA Online has had in a while.
Worth knowing, in the same breath: the same July update reduced payouts on existing heists. Which is its own commentary on what a stipend is worth in an economy the house re-prices at will, and worth factoring in if the pitch that lands you is “free GTA$.”
If you do not play GTA Online — and a large share of people pre-ordering GTA 6 have not touched GTA V in years — the month is worth close to nothing, and the auto-renew is worth less than nothing. Redeem it if you want it. Set a reminder for day 28 either way.
Why This Keeps Getting Muddled
Because “GTA+” sounds like a Grand Theft Auto membership rather than a Grand Theft Auto Online membership, and because it is being handed out with GTA 6 pre-orders, which makes the association almost automatic. We have watched people work out entire theories from it — that GTA+ will gate GTA 6’s online mode, that subscribers get early access, that it signals a subscription model for GTA 6.
All of that is invented. Rockstar has said nothing about GTA+ and GTA 6. What it has said, and the only thing it has said, is that GTA 6 “features a single-player experience” — which, as we keep pointing out, is not the same statement as “there is no online mode,” and does not become one through repetition.
The clean version: your free month is a GTA V benefit, attached to a GTA 6 purchase, that bills you in thirty days. That is all it is. Treat it as a nice-to-have on a game you already own, not as a foot in the door of one you don’t.
The GTA Online hub covers the current update cycle, and our microtransactions page tracks what is confirmed about GTA 6’s economy — which, honestly, is nothing.