Google Brings Cheaper $7.99 'AI Plus' Plan to 35 Countries, Including U.S.

[MacRumors]

Google today announced that it is expanding its more affordable Google AI Plus subscription plan to 35 countries and territories, including the United States.

In the U.S., Google AI Plus is priced at $7.99, giving Google Gemini users a more affordable option for accessing upgraded AI services. Prior to now, Google AI Pro was the most affordable AI subscription plan at $19.99 per month.

Google AI Plus includes Gemini 3 Pro and Nano Banana Pro in the Gemini app, as well as AI filmmaking tools in Flow, and access to research and writing assistance in NotebookLM. It also includes 200GB of storage, with benefits able to be shared with up to five other family members.

For a limited time, Google is offering new AI Plus subscribers a 50 percent discount for the first two months of the subscription, dropping the price to $3.99. Customers will pay $3.99 for access for two months, before being charged the full $7.99 per month price.

Google One Premium 2TB customers who pay $9.99 per month will automatically get access to the benefits of Google AI Plus in the coming days.

Google AI Plus includes 200 monthly AI credits for video generation, which is 100 more credits than the free Google AI option. The free tier has limited access to Gemini 3 Pro, but subscribers will be able to use 3 Pro with fewer limitations, while also accessing Deep Research. The plan also offers limited access to Veo 3.1 Fast and Gemini in Chrome.

The more expensive $19.99 per month Google AI Pro plan has even more benefits than the $7.99 plan. It offers a higher number of AI credits, more access to Flow and Whisk, Gemini 3 Pro in Google Search, higher daily limits for Gemini Code assist, Gemini in Google apps like Gmail and Docs, access to Google Home Premium, and 2TB storage.

More information is available on Google's website.

Article Link: Google Brings Cheaper $7.99 'AI Plus' Plan to 35 Countries, Including U.S.

 

[Art Mark]

Are they still losing money with these plans? What do people think they will need to charge to cover their expenses? I know the old -give it away cheap until people need it- but if it's never very affordable what is the point? I can make my own Power Points...

 

[JMalone]

“AI filmmaking” is not a thing. They are not filming anything. There is no shooting. They are sending a request to a server for an mpeg file.

For 200 credits you’ll get something like 50 seconds worth of slop a month.

The phone you have in your pocket could shoot an indie film or documentary at higher quality than most prosumer cameras could 20 years ago.

 

[everlast3434]

Using all this energy to make cat videos seems fine...

 

[jz0309]

Looks they are desperate for "paying" customers, so ads and personal info processing alone don't cut it ... better re-think this whole "shove AI down everyone's throat" approach ...

 

[Yul Mtl]

I like the Pro model when asking questions, but other than that, I don't use AI much.

 

[jonnysods]

Gemini creates some fun videos and images, but for other requests I find it lacking compared to CGPT

 

[Ursadorable]

I love the smell of desperation, and the race to the bottom.

 

[svish]

Good to see this expanding to more countries. With subscription prices increasing, a lower priced tier is welcome.

 

[david_n_n]

This is a sign, to me at least, that Google still considers ChatGPT as a very formidable competitor. They introduce this literally RIGHT after ChatGPT did the same thing with their plans' lineup.

 

[mannyvel]

IMO gemini pro is the best out there so far. Ask it to plan stuff and it's pretty comprehensive. I've almost stopped cross-checking it against ChatGPT and perplexity pro.

PP is still the best when it comes to new, up-to-date questions.

 

[Bones402]

On pace to use 180 billion gallons of water a year to run this trash. 280 billion gallons of water a year in 2028. Turn this timeline off please, all of it. Thanos snap would be fantastic; **** I would even jump in with Eleven to wherever the hell she went at this point.

 

[k1121j]

So is this what Apple chose to make Siri better? 😬

 

[iamsikora]

“AI filmmaking” is not a thing. They are not filming anything. There is no shooting. They are sending a request to a server for an mpeg file.

For 200 credits you’ll get something like 50 seconds worth of slop a month.

The phone you have in your pocket could shoot an indie film or documentary at higher quality than most prosumer cameras could 20 years ago.

It is certainly a thing. Filmmaking is not just about 'shooting'. They are making films. It shows how ignorant and consumer you are and so old school saying 'mpeg' lol. Your last statement is fully correct. And this is the next evolution of that. It's a tool that will expand real creatives work. Slop is a whole other category, that's what consumers play with.

 

[Agit21]

But there is still the 30 prompts limit per day on AI plus right? I feel that wont be enough.....

 

[werty1432k]

Are they still losing money with these plans? What do people think they will need to charge to cover their expenses? I know the old -give it away cheap until people need it- but if it's never very affordable what is the point? I can make my own Power Points...

The AI price war had begun - Google knows OpenAI is on the ropes and wants to match their new ChatGPT Go plan

 

[Mackan]

No thanks to another subscription for pointless things that ruin the society and resources. Also, already have too many expenses in life. How about paying rent, food and electricity which is skyrocketing. And the ability to afford my own computer was also taken from me by these evil companies.

 

[dba415]

For 200 GB of storage and adding another $5 per month for AI that's not bad

 

[Will Co]

I love the smell of desperation, and the race to the bottom.

The race to the bottom to try to win customers and retain them, all the while making fantastic losses until the competition goes bust, and then jack up prices. Unless those losses become too unpalatable for investors, who realise that when the price rises start, people will just stop making cat videos.

 

[JMalone]

It is certainly a thing. Filmmaking is not just about 'shooting'.

BS. If you believe that then you have ZERO clue about filmmaking. Absolute zero. Less than zero. Zero minus infinity.

Throwing some prompts doesn’t make you a filmmaker. End of story.

 

[delsoul]

People are tired of being AI’ed to death on everything. Even with the low price, I won’t be signing up, especially since it’s Google. Can’t trust them one bit with anything.

 

[fatTribble]

Looks they are desperate for "paying" customers, so ads and personal info processing alone don't cut it ... better re-think this whole "shove AI down everyone's throat" approach ...

I’m really hoping Apple doesn’t bundle this into Apple One then raise the price. I want to love it, but I don’t even like it.

 

[ryanmp]

IMO gemini pro is the best out there so far. Ask it to plan stuff and it's pretty comprehensive. I've almost stopped cross-checking it against ChatGPT and perplexity pro.

PP is still the best when it comes to new, up-to-date questions.

Anything you found that ChatGPT still excels in versus Gemini? I've got paid subs to both but tend to still default to ChatGPT for no reason other than it's been home for a while.

 

[coolfactor]

So is this what Apple chose to make Siri better? 😬

I’m really hoping Apple doesn’t bundle this into Apple One then raise the price. I want to love it, but I don’t even like it.

Apple's implementation of Gemini for Siri will be completely separate. Not running on Google's servers, but instead on Apple's servers, with Google having no access to user data. That is what is being reported.

 

[coolfactor]

Looks they are desperate for "paying" customers, so ads and personal info processing alone don't cut it ... better re-think this whole "shove AI down everyone's throat" approach ...

There's a whole other facet of AI that emerged in 2025 that many consumers still aren't aware of — agentic + tool usage. In this mode, the AI can run autonomously and use tools (ie. "functions") to perform work, which is beyond the AI model itself just trying to generate language and media output that everyone is growing tired of.

Beyond that, there's embodiment, or physical AI — basically robots — and these will completely change the world in the next 5 years.

The West is wayyyyyy behind China in these areas. The US may think they are leading the tech revolution, but that's not the full story. Tech out of Asian markets is moving way faster.