Google Just Removed This Major Perk From Its AI Plus Subscription

While ChatGPT power have been archetypal out of the generative AI gate, Google has established itself as additional than a important participant in this new scientific race. While plentifulness of group use Gemini liberated of charge, there are additionally a plethora of paid subscribers who desire admission to Google's latest and top models. Like another AI subscriptions, Google's finest plans are wildly expensive, but it's cheapest paid tier, AI Plus, is much additional reasonable: For $4.99 per month, you get admission to faster Gemini models, and bump your Google retention up to 400GB to boot.

But if you're subscribed to Google AI Plus for admission to improved versions of Gemini, alter is coming. Google is alert subscribers this week that they're losing a important perk—perhaps the perk—of the AI Plus subscription tier, as subscribers volition shortly no longer have admission to Gemini's advanced models.

How Google is changing its subscription tiers

As 9to5Google reports, this isn't necessarily out of the blue. When Google rolled out Gemini 4 Argon, the business advertised that its latest example would lone be accessible on AI Pro and AI Ultra plans, not AI Plus. At the identical time, the business stated that its plans meant AI Plus subscribers would shortly endure admission to all Gemini Pro models. It now seems those plans are now rolling out—one Redditor shared an email they received from Google as an AI Plus subscriber, which reads:

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We wanted to let you cognize concerning changes to the models that you can admission alongside your Google AI Plus plan.

Starting on 13 November 2026, the capability to choose Pro models in the two the Gemini app and AI Mode in Google Search volition lone be accessible to Google AI Pro subscribers and above. You’ll motionless have admission to our latest Flash-Lite example and Flash, built for speed and intelligence. Your former chats using the Pro example can be continued alongside a distinct model.

To study additional concerning these changes, you can sojourn our Help Centre part for additional details. You can oversee or cancel your subscription at any time.

Thank you for being a Google AI Plus subscriber.

– The Google One squad

According to the message, AI Plus subscribers have small than a duration remaining to admission Gemini Pro models. On Nov. 13, these users volition be constricted to Flash-Lite and Flash in the two the Gemini app and AI Mode. While it's fortunate that former Pro chats volition motionless be available, users volition need to use one of these small mighty models if they desire to continue those conversations.

So now, admission to models in Google's AI subscriptions looks akin the following:

• Free: Gemini Flash-Lite

• AI Plus ($4.99 per month): Gemini Flash-Lite and Gemini Flash

• AI Pro ($19.99 per month): AI Plus perks, affirmative Gemini Pro models and admission to Gemini 4 Argon

• AI Ultra 5x ($99.99 per month): AI Pro perks, affirmative higher admission to Gemini Pro models and 5x higher use limits

• AI Ultra 20x ($199.99 per month): AI Ultra 5x perks affirmative 20x higher use limits and highest admission to Pro models

It continually rubs me the incorrect way whenever companies obtain distant features following customers have already paid for them. If Pro models were continually locked to a higher tier I could think, whatever, that's fair what Google charges. But the fact that AI Plus subscribers have paid for admission to Pro models, and now the identical $4.99 subscription is missing a important characteristic for no particular reason, is, in my view, scummy. If you're subsequently rethinking your choice of Google subscription, here is a complete breakdown of all perks throughout the assorted subscription options.