Google Cuts AI Ultra to $200, Bundles YouTube Premium
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- Google AI Pro at $19.99 per month now bundles YouTube Premium Lite, 5TB of storage, and expanded Gemini usage credits
- Google AI Ultra 20x dropped from $250 to $199.99 per month while keeping 30TB of storage and adding full YouTube Premium
- A new Google AI Ultra 5x tier at $99.99 per month offers 20TB of storage, full YouTube Premium, Google Antigravity agentic features, and Gemini 3.5 Flash integration for 5x the AI Pro usage limits
- Google switched AI Pro subscribers to a new credit system that weights prompt complexity, features used, and chat length, with one Reddit user reporting a single prompt consumed 13% of their monthly quota
- Gemini Spark, a 24/7 AI agent that acts on users' behalf, will enter beta for US subscribers next week
- Google Home Premium Standard replaces Nest Aware, and Google Health Premium launches on May 26
Why it matters: The $50 monthly cut on the top tier and YouTube Premium bundling target AI power users who might otherwise defect to Anthropic or OpenAI, but the new complexity-based credit system could mean subscribers burn through their quota faster — one Reddit user already saw a single prompt eat 13% of their monthly allotment.
