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Perhaps someone should tell the Gemini team about these models. When I open gemini.google.com I see 3.6 Flash and 3.1 Pro.


It's all moot soon:

Updates to your Google AI Plus plan

We wanted to let you know about changes to the models that you can access with your Google AI Plus plan.

Starting on 1 3 N o v e m b e r 2 0 2 6 , the ability to select Pro models in both the Gemini app and AI Mode in Google Search will only be available to Google AI Pro subscribers and above. You'll still have access to our latest Flash-Lite model and Flash, built for speed and intelligence. Your previous chats using the Pro model can be continued with a different model.

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I have a pro subscription and got Argon about two weeks after the announcement, I'm on the annual plan, got the 30% discount by switching it from monthly. Usage on antigravity is not included, usage via chat is absymally low. It's a good model though.

I have a yearly plus subscription and I am still seeing 3.6. I am not renewing it once it expires. Why not give subscribers a small usage quota of their latest flash models?

The borg cube does not understand customer satisfaction.

Clearly! I was a happy customer, but that decision made me go through the effort of setting up a pay-as-you-go inference service with open-weight models, which I didn't want to bother learning how to do. But now I am perfectly happy with them and lost any interest in Gemini.

I bet I am not alone, either.


It should be available on Pro in Antigravity now.

It has a seperate weekly limit that is very low. Maybe it can be pulled off that usage tier and just regular usage since Carbon is being released?


Now if only I could sign up for a pro plan…

Unfortunately their plan structure is on par with their model naming.

The plans that allow for own domain and the plans that allow for sane AI use are mutually exclusive


My mother travels across two countries often. As a result she can not but Youtube Premium or any AI Pro plans because Google can't detect her country. The pricing in both countries is same. She wont even mind paying the highest plan.

I have a pro subscription and still don't have Argon. I can only access it via API.. I guess I can set antigravity up with that.

But it just all seems so tedious when codex and Claude are so painless.


Only available to Google AI Pro subscribers. Google AI Plus hasn't got Gemini 3.8 Flash nor Gemini 4 Argon.

What's then the use of the Plus subscription?

Same as the ChatGPT Go: higher usage limits, more image and pdf uploads, more tools

ChatGPT Go gives you access to Sol which is much better than the ancient 3.1 Pro.

But also no storage

Oh okay. Though OpenAI's model (GPT-6 Luna) seems a lot better than Google's (Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite), so I don't see why anyone would pay for Gemini AI Plus.

Same. So after their now third announcement of a new model while locking their own customers out of it, I've just unsubscribed

They recently made it so you're stuck on 3.6 Flash if you don't pay them enough.

Note this is also true of OpenAI and Anthropic too (except Anthropic doesn't have a tier between free and all-models-available)

Disingenuous to not mention what plan you are on.

If you are talking about free versions, OpenAI and Anthropic also have a difference between free models and models available to 25$-tier plans.


No, not free. I'm on a paid plan.

Still not saying which paid plan. I don't really understand why you think that doesn't matter. Google is not the only company to have different model availability for different plan tiers.

My workspace account is "Expanded AI Access" and can't access any Gemini 4 models. Disingenuous to ignore the fact that you can't even sign up for Plus/Pro/Ultra on a non-personal account when talking about "what plan you are on".



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