Google AI Plus Is Now $4.99 a Month — and You Get Double the Storage
aiWednesday, 10 June 2026 at 08:54
Google just made it harder to say no to its entry AI plan. Announced by Vikas Kansal, Google's Product Lead for Gemini AI subscriptions, the AI Plus plan drops from $7.99 to $4.99 per month. At the same time, storage doubles from 200GB to 400GB. Both changes take effect immediately for new subscribers. Existing subscribers get the lower price on their next billing cycle and the storage bump within a few days.
Summary
- Price drops to $4.99/month: Down from $7.99 — a $3 saving every month. Annual plan also cut from $79.99 to $49.99.
- Storage doubles to 400GB: Shared across Gmail, Drive, and Photos. Family sharing covers up to five additional members.
- No features removed: Gemini 3.1 Pro, Deep Research, NotebookLM, Daily Brief, Gemini Omni video generation, and 2x Gemini usage limits all stay included.
- Regional pricing live now: USD 4.99 / CAD 7 / GBP 4.50 / EUR 5 / INR 400.
- Context: Price cut follows the Siri AI announcement and comes as Google restructures its entire AI subscription lineup.
The Storage Pitch Is Stronger Than the AI Pitch
At $4.99 a month, it's worth checking whether Google AI Plus just replaced a plan you were already paying for. That's the real question here. Anyone currently paying for 200GB of Google One storage is spending the same money — and getting Gemini 3.1 Pro, Deep Research, NotebookLM, and Daily Brief for free on top of it.
The storage bump rolls out to subscribers immediately, while the discounted pricing takes effect on the next billing cycle. The 400GB is shared across Gmail, Drive, and Google Photos — and Google AI Plus supports account sharing, allowing you to split the 400GB cloud bucket and AI utilities with up to five additional family members. For a family already using Google's ecosystem, that's a straightforward value proposition.
What You Actually Get
Subscribers get 2x higher usage limits in the Gemini app compared to the free tier, a 128,000-token context window, and access to features like Daily Brief, Omni Flash video generation, and scheduled interactions. Daily Brief is worth calling out specifically — it builds a personalized summary of your day inside the Gemini app, pulling from your calendar and Gmail. Gemini Omni handles video generation from multiple input types. These aren't features you'd typically find at this price.
The Competitive Context
The timing isn't accidental. Google's move follows Apple's WWDC 2026 AI announcements — including the Siri AI announcement powered partly by Gemini — and comes ahead of OpenAI's anticipated IPO filing. The AI subscription market is tightening. This pricing shakeup arrives alongside a broader restructuring of Google's digital membership tiers — AI Ultra dropped from $250 to $200 at Google I/O, a new $100 developer tier was added, and AI Pro got a 5TB storage upgrade without a price increase. The AI Plus cut completes the sequence.
I suppose the honest summary is this: $4.99 for 400GB of storage plus a capable AI assistant is a competitive offer. Whether the AI features replace tools you're already paying for elsewhere is the only question worth asking.
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