10/08/2026
If you use Google's Gemini AI, some changes start tomorrow.
Starting October 9, free Gemini users will be limited to the Flash Lite model. The $4.99 a month Google AI Plus plan is also losing Gemini Pro, on a date Google will email to each subscriber. After that, Gemini Pro will require the $19.99 a month Google AI Pro plan or Google AI Ultra, which starts at $99.99 a month. These changes are for personal Google accounts, and those are US prices.
Google has every right to change its plans. It's still a good reminder that when you rent AI, someone else decides what you get and what it costs.
I believe businesses that depend on AI every day should own at least part of it. A private system like Iron Stack AI runs in your own office, and the model you set up today is the same one you'll have next month, until you decide to change it.
Are you on a free AI plan or paying for one?