Google’s most affordable AI plan just got much more tempting

At the moment could also be all about Apple’s newest bulletins, with the Gemini-powered Apple Intelligence improve most likely being one of many greatest — however that doesn’t imply Google’s content material to sit down again, out of the highlight. Whereas Apple was outlining all its adjustments arriving in iOS 27, Google was quietly making its greatest AI plan a fair higher worth.

Final 12 months, Google launched a brand new subscription AI tier: AI Plus. Whereas AI Professional begins at $20 a month, and AI Extremely now goes for both $100 or $200, AI Plus arrived as a much more affordable different. When it got here to the US again in January, you can enroll for a mere $8 a month. And now, Google posts on X that it’s slashing that to just $5.

Not solely will you pay much less for entry to AI Plus, however Google can be doubling the cloud storage you get with it, bumping that 200GB allowance as much as 400GB. That’s nonetheless nowhere close to AI Professional’s 5TB, but it surely’s a stable quantity of area to maintain all of your treasured Nano Banana creations.

Customers in different worldwide markets ought to see their native AI Plus subscription price drop by a commensurate degree.

Google could at present be experiencing some rising pains with its subscription AI choices, as customers more and more discover themselves operating into troublesome utilization limits — and AI Plus has the bottom limits of all of them — however that is nonetheless a really good improve to get. Now if solely AI Plus additionally threw in slightly Well being Premium or YouTube Premium Lite. We will all the time dream, proper?