A new era in Google AI subscriptions: What you need to know from I/O 2026
We’re unveiling a range of enhancements designed to elevate how you interact with and leverage artificial intelligence. Our AI subscriptions offer premium benefits across Google, including extra storage and tools that can boost your productivity and creativity.
A $100/month AI Ultra plan for developers
Introducing a new $100/month AI Ultra plan tailored specifically for developers, technical leads, knowledge workers, and advanced creators. Available now, this tier comes with:
- A 5X higher usage limit in the Gemini app and Google Antigravity than our Pro plan
- Gemini 3.5 Flash integration for faster testing, debugging, and iteration
- Prioritized access to Google Antigravity, enabling anyone to become a builder with this agent-first development platform
- 20TB of cloud storage to house your massive datasets, codebases, and media assets
- A YouTube Premium individual plan for ad-free streaming or listening while you build
We’ve also reduced the monthly price from $250 to $200. You’ll still enjoy all these benefits — including a 20X higher usage limit in the Gemini app and Google Antigravity than our Pro plan — now at a more affordable rate.
Key features of AI Ultra
- Gemini Spark (U.S. only): A 24/7 AI agent that helps you navigate your digital life, taking complex tasks off your plate so you can be more present for what matters.
- Project Genie (all subscribers over 18 years old): Access to our experimental research prototype allowing you to create and explore new worlds. A new capability powered by Street View will let you build new, unexpected worlds anchored in reality.
Access to the latest models
With an AI subscription, you get access to our most advanced models, including:
- Gemini Omni (all plans): Our new model capable of creating anything from any input, starting with video. Combining Gemini’s intelligence with our generative media models for a new level of world understanding, multimodality, and editing.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash (all plans): Frontier performance for agents and coding tasks, excelling at complex long-horizon tasks that deliver real-world utility.
Tools to boost your productivity
You also gain access to helpful features across Google apps designed to help you get things done:
- AI Inbox in Gmail (U.S. only): Available now for AI Ultra subscribers and rolling out to AI Plus and Pro, this feature intelligently shares your most critical tasks, provides personalized draft replies, marks them as completed, and surfaces relevant links from Docs, Sheets, and Slides.
- Daily Brief in the Gemini app: A new agent for daily briefs that distills important updates from Gmail, Calendar, and Gemini chats into one intelligent view, helping you start your day with a clear plan of action.
Google Pics — an all-new image creation and editing tool — along with additional voice capabilities in Gmail, Docs, and Keep are also coming this summer for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
Premium benefits included
The YouTube Premium individual plan is already included in the AI Ultra subscription. In the upcoming days, paid AI Pro subscribers in certain countries will receive a YouTube Premium Lite individual plan at no extra cost. This adds $8.99 in value monthly and lets you watch most YouTube and YouTube Kids videos ad-free, offline, and in the background for an enhanced entertainment experience.
Updates to keep you in your flow
We’re transitioning from daily prompt limits to a “compute-used” model. These new limits factor in the complexity of your prompt, features used, and chat length. If you reach your cap on our largest models, we’ll switch you to our state-of-the-art, lightning-fast smaller models so you never miss a beat.
AI Pro and Ultra subscribers can also purchase pay-as-you-go top-up AI credits for Google Antigravity, Google Flow, and the Gemini app if they want to continue using their current model.
What’s next
Many of these updates are already rolling out today and will be available in the coming days and weeks.
Key Takeaways
- A new $100/month AI Ultra plan tailored for developers, technical leads, knowledge workers, and advanced creators.
- The ability to use Google Pics — an all-new image creation and editing tool — in the Gemini app.
- Access to the latest models like Gemini Omni and Gemini 3.5 Flash across different plans.
Originally published at blog.google. Curated by AI Maestro.
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