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They will no longer be able to reach the newer Flash variants that are currently open to them.The squeeze comes as Google keeps shipping lightweight updates at a near-monthly pace, most recently Gemini 3.8 Flash in September.The AI Plus tier costing $4.99 per month also feels the blow more strongly, allowing only access to Flash and Flash-Lite models, without Gemini 3.1 Pro and newer reasoning models.In other words, subscribing for….
Moreover, both tiers get a Deep Thinking feature.What is more important is that Google announced that users will have an option to choose from low, medium, and high effort of models, meaning that the higher effort reduces quotas faster.
Therefore, this is a compromise between the quality of the answer and the lifetime of a quota.It is the most recent update of the quota limitations introduced by Google in relation to Gemini.
Google to downgrading Gemini for free, AI Plus users October 5, 2026.
