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0 pointsFluorescence1y ago0 comments

> The Gemini Pro subscription is included with Google One

It's not in Basic, Standard or Premium.

It's in a new tier called "Google AI Pro" which I think is worth inclusion in your catalogue of product confusion.

Oh wait, there's even more tiers that for some reason can't be paid for annually. Weird... why not? "Google AI Ultra" and some others just called Premium again but now include AI. 9 tiers, 5 called Premium, 2 with AI in the name but 6 that include Gemini. What a mess.

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scoopdewoop1y ago· 2 in thread

It is bold to assume these products will even exist in a year

rvnx1y ago

This is also tied to the internal promotion system within Google; you get promoted and rewarded for launching new products. Way less for maintenance.

sometimes_all0y ago

Yes this is a well-known trope in HN about promotion-oriented launches, but this is just pure lack of proper messaging. I had a chat with one of Google's representatives, and they keep on saying "they do not have any information on this as of now".

This is less about internal systems and more about either incompetence or active sabotage.

vexna1y ago· 1 in thread

It gets even more confusing! If you're on the "Premium" plans (i.e the the old standard "Google One" plans) and upgrade to >=5TB storage, your "Premium" plan starts including all the features of "Google AI Pro".

Tip: If you do annual billing for "Premium (5 TB)", you end up paying $21/month for 5TB of storage and the same AI features of "Google AI pro (2TB)"; which is only $1/month more than doing "Google AI Pro (2 TB)" (which only has monthly billing)

croon1y ago

In my region Premium is actually $0.60 cheaper per month, with the additional 3TB storage, and that's before yearly billing. Confusing indeed.

sofixa1y ago· 1 in thread

> It's not in Basic, Standard or Premium.

For me, it shows all the Gemini stuff in Premium, even the 5TB version.

FluorescenceOP1y ago

It's interesting to see the most recent internet archive snapshot from last week. Just 4 tiers. Basic, Standard, Premium which don't include Gemini. There is a fourth tier called "AI Premium" that does.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250611035305/https://one.googl...

I wonder what it will be next week.

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