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Lower-cost Google AI tier (about $4.99-$5 per month) with Gemini Omni and 400GB storage, offered free for a year to eligible students outside the US.
Google will cut Pro model access from its $4.99 AI Plus plan on November 13, leaving Flash and Flash-Lite. Keeping Pro means moving to AI Pro or above; at the $19.99 tier 9to5Google lists, that is $15 more a month per person.
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Google is moving free Gemini app accounts to Flash-Lite only and taking the Pro model out of AI Plus, its cheapest paid plan, according to its help page. In the US, keeping Pro now means AI Pro at $19.99 a month, against $4.99 for AI Plus, 9to5Google reported.
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Google will cut free Gemini app users to Flash-Lite on October 9 and pull Pro from its $4.99 AI Plus plan, making $19.99 AI Pro the cheapest plan with Pro. The same plan picks up Deep Think, so teams on free or Plus seats now have to decide, person by person, which model the work needs.
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Google will run free Gemini only on Flash-Lite, its smallest model, from October 9, a dev.to post reports, citing Martincid.com. Teams that summarise on the free tier have one anecdote to judge quality by, and it found the output accurate but missing some nuance.
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The free year of AI Pro bundles Gemini, Spark, Workspace, 5TB of storage and Health Premium. The number that matters is what happens on day 366.
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