Goodbye to Gemini Pro: Google cuts advanced models from the cheapest plan this week

The change was announced by the company last month and is now valid for new subscriptions. However, the Mountain View Giant extended the deadline to apply the adjustments in November for active subscribers and communicated the decision by email.

In practice, access to Gemini’s most powerful models is limited to subscribers of the AI ​​Pro and AI Ultra plans, offered from R$96.99 and R$779.90 per month, respectively.

The Pro variant is considered the smarter version of a Gemini AI model. It is normally used for complex and larger tasks, which require a more intense level of reasoning, with emphasis on the areas of logic and programming.

Google can still unravel a family of models with the Flash and Flash-Lite variants: in this case, the AI ​​has lower latency and can respond faster, even losing “firepower” for more elaborate prompts. According to the company, most commands are directed to the Flash-Lite version.

Big Tech does not detail the reasons for the change, but the main hypothesis is to cover the high computational costs of using AI agents and the most powerful models.

Gemini 4 ArgoneGemini 4 Carbonare models capable of handling very extensive tasks, but this also requires greater reallocation of cloud resources to run the actions with stability. The adjustment limits access to more advanced LLMs and may even increase the user base of more expensive plans.

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