Tinder does not list a fixed weekly price for Gold. Its help center lists no price for any tier, and the amount you pay is the one the app shows you at the moment you buy. Weekly plans do exist, though. Tinder's help center notes that the monthly Boost is not available for weekly subscriptions, which confirms they sit alongside the longer plans. So the answer for your account is on the plan screen in your app, and the answer for the whole app is that it varies.
Weekly plans exist, and they leave something out
The detail in the help center is useful. Gold normally includes a Boost each month, but Tinder says that Boost is not available on a weekly subscription.
That means a weekly Gold plan is not simply a smaller slice of the monthly one. You get the rest of Gold, but not that Boost. If the Boost was part of why you wanted Gold, check what the weekly plan on your screen includes before you buy.
Why the number is not the same for everyone
Tinder's terms describe a global business whose pricing varies based on a number of factors. They say it frequently offers promotional rates. These can vary by region, length of subscription, bundle size, past purchases and account activity.
Length of subscription is on that list, so a week and a month are priced as separate choices. A friend's weekly price is a fact about his account, region and history, not a price you can count on.
If a number matters to your decision, get it from the screen where the app offers you the plan. That figure is the only one Tinder will actually charge.
What Gold gives you
Tinder describes Gold as everything in Tinder Plus plus weekly Super Likes, a Boost each month, and the ability to see who Likes You before you decide.
Plus covers unlimited daily Likes, unlimited Rewinds and Passport Mode. It also hides advertisements and lets you go incognito. The Gold feature men care about is seeing who Likes You. It tells you which women have already shown interest, so you can spend your attention there instead of guessing.
Is one week long enough to learn anything
A week is a short test, and that cuts both ways.
It is cheap to try, and it ends before you have forgotten about it. The weakness is that conversations on a dating app run slowly. A woman can take a day or two to answer, and a plan for a first date often takes several more messages. Seven days is enough to see whether you are being shown more interest. It may not be enough to see dates come out of it.
So start the week on a day when you can answer quickly. Open the See who Likes You screen the same day and go through every woman there while the plan is fresh. Write a first line to each one you would honestly like to meet, and make it about something specific on her page.
Measure before and after
a dating coach's advice on paid features is to test them cheaply and drop them if they change nothing. He describes most of them as multipliers, which means they only work on results you already have. If your free account gets almost no matches, a week of Gold multiplies almost nothing.
Write down the week before you pay: matches, conversations that got past the first exchange, and dates set up. Keep the same record during the paid week. Without it, you will remember the week as good simply because you spent money on it.
Compare the per-week cost with a longer plan
If the weekly test goes well, look at what a longer plan costs on the same screen, since Tinder says length of subscription affects the price. Do the arithmetic per week, because the cheaper-looking plan is not always the cheaper one.
Also decide ahead of time what you will do at the end. Plans can renew, and the moment to choose is before that happens, with your numbers beside you.
Who should skip the weekly plan
If the monthly Boost is the reason you want Gold, a weekly plan is the wrong shape, since Tinder says that Boost is not available on weekly subscriptions. The same goes if you are traveling for a stretch longer than a week, or if you know you will be too busy to answer messages for several days.
A paid week you cannot use is the most expensive kind. Pick a week when your evenings are free and your phone is in your hand, so every woman who Likes you hears back while she still remembers doing it.
The short answer
Tinder gives no weekly price for Gold, and weekly plans exist without the monthly Boost. Open the plan screen, read your own price, and run the week as a measured test. If your matches and dates did not rise, stop.
Written by Matthew Stevens, Co-Founder & Head Coach. More than half a decade coaching men across the US and worldwide.
Everything here comes out of real coaching work: the approaches, dates, texts and profiles we go through with the men we coach.