Google lowers AI Plus pricing while doubling cloud storage

At present could also be all about Apple’s newest bulletins, with the Gemini-powered Apple Intelligence improve in all probability being one of many largest — however that doesn’t imply Google’s content material to take a seat again, out of the highlight. Whereas Apple was outlining all its modifications arriving in iOS 27, Google was quietly making its greatest AI plan a good 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 way more reasonably priced 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 only $5.

Not solely will you pay much less for entry to AI Plus, however Google can also 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, nevertheless it’s a stable quantity of house to maintain all of your valuable Nano Banana creations.

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

Google might at present be experiencing some rising pains with its subscription AI choices, as customers more and more discover themselves working 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 a bit Well being Premium or YouTube Premium Lite. We will at all times dream, proper?