Google AI Plus at $4.99/month and AI Pro at $19.99/month expand Gemini context windows to 128K and 1M tokens

Google has outlined the feature differences between free Gemini access and its two paid subscription tiers, with significant increases in context window sizes and file upload limits.

Pricing and Context Windows

The free tier provides 32,000 tokens of context (approximately 50 pages of text). Google AI Plus, priced at $4.99 per month in the US, increases this to 128,000 tokens. AI Pro, at $19.99/month, offers 1 million tokens or roughly 1,500 pages of text (30,000 lines of code).

Google switched to compute-based usage limits in May 2026. Free users receive "Standard limits" that refresh every 5 hours until reaching a weekly cap. AI Plus provides 2x higher than standard limits, while AI Pro offers 4x higher limits.

File Upload Restrictions

Context window size directly impacts file upload capabilities:

• Video uploads: Free tier limited to 5 minutes; AI Pro supports up to 1 hour
• Audio uploads: 10 minutes on free tier; 3 hours with AI Pro
• Code uploads: Restricted to paid subscriptions only

Notebook and Organization Features

Notebooks, which integrate with NotebookLM, scale by tier:

• Free: 100 notebooks with 50 sources each
• AI Plus: 200 notebooks with 100 sources each
• AI Pro: 500 notebooks with 300 sources each

Image and Video Generation

Free users can generate images with Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image). Subscribers access Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) for more advanced generations.

Video generation with Gemini Omni requires either AI Plus or AI Pro subscriptions.

Exclusive Subscriber Features

Daily Brief (AI Plus or Pro required): Provides morning updates divided into "Top of mind" for immediate actionable items from Gmail and Calendar, and "Looking ahead" for long-term goal suggestions.

Scheduled Actions (AI Plus or Pro required): Automate prompts to run at specific times or conditions, with a limit of 10 concurrent actions. Use cases include daily digests, topic tracking, market reports, weather forecasts, practice quizzes, and weekly news summaries.

What This Means

Google's tiered pricing creates clear separation between casual and power users. The 32x increase in context window from free to Pro (32K to 1M tokens) positions AI Pro as competitive with other enterprise-focused AI products. The $4.99 AI Plus tier appears designed to capture users who need moderate file processing without enterprise-scale context. The restriction of code uploads to paid tiers only suggests Google is prioritizing developer conversions to paid plans.