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Google Overhauls Top-Tier AI Plans, Drops Price and Adds YouTube Premium

A new $100-per-month subscription offers expanded Gemini access for less. The most expensive plan also gets a price cut as Google looks to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Google's I/O announcements included updates to its monthly storage and AI subscription plans, as well as a new perk: YouTube Premium.

The $19.99-per-month Google AI Pro comes with 5TB of storage, expanded Gemini usage credits, and now, a YouTube Premium Lite subscription. There's also Google Home Premium Standard, the new name for Nest Aware, and Google Health Premium, which launches on May 26.

If you opt for Google's new AI Ultra 5x package, you get 20TB of storage for $99.99 a month, and YouTube Premium in full. The video streamer is also included in the top-tier Google AI Ultra 20x plan, which comes with 30TB of storage and much more expansive AI usage for $199.99. That’s a lot to pay for AI access, but it's a price cut from $250 per month as Google tries to stay competitive with its rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI.

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YouTube Premium has thus far remained a separate subscription, but bringing it into the top-tier Google One plans makes a lot of sense. None offers the YouTube Premium Family plan, though, so you need to pay more to share access.

The new $99.99 tier for Google AI Ultra includes 5x the AI Pro usage limits on Gemini tools, as well as access to Google Antigravity agentic features. It also comes with Gemini 3.5 Flash integration for what it calls “lightning-fast testing, debugging, and iteration, to keep you in a constant state of flow.”

You also get access to Gemini Spark, which Google calls a 24/7 agent that “helps you navigate your digital life, takes action on your behalf, and is under your direction.” Google says it plans to roll out a beta to US subscribers next week.

Google also reworked how prompts count toward your AI plan limits. As spotted by Android Authority, those on Google AI Pro have now switched to a new credit system designed to "factor in the complexity of your prompt, the features that you use and the length of your chat" to determine how much you can keep using your subscription. One Reddit user said they found that a single prompt used up 13% of their monthly Google AI Pro quota. Users have been informed of the change via email.

Other Google One tiers without premium AI features include Basic at $1.99 per month with 100GB of space, and Standard at $2.99 per month with 200GB of space. All users get 15GB of storage for free, but recent changes may require a phone number linked to your account.

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