Overview
- Google updated its Gemini support page and announced that starting Friday, Oct. 9, accounts without a Google AI subscription will be limited to the Flash‑Lite model and will lose access to Flash and Pro.
- AI Plus subscribers will keep Flash‑Lite and Flash but will no longer have Pro access, and Google says it will email affected Plus customers with the specific date their accounts change.
- Google AI Pro and AI Ultra customers retain Flash‑Lite, Flash and Pro, and AI Pro will gain the Deep Think parallel‑reasoning option that was previously limited to Ultra plans.
- The Gemini app will add selectable effort levels — low, medium and high — that make responses more thorough while consuming more of a user’s compute‑based usage allowance.
- Gemini 4 Argon is in a limited rollout to AI Ultra and select partners with its wider tier placement undecided, and the changes follow Google’s May switch to billing Gemini use by compute demand which increases incentives to upgrade.