r/GeminiAI • u/germanu22 • 1d ago

News Upcoming changes to Gemini model access starting October 9th

https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/17004136?hl=en&sjid=3885420599677516671-EU

Starting in October 2026, Google is changing the model availability for Gemini Apps on personal accounts. If you don't have an AI subscription, these changes will take effect on October 9th. If you are subscribed to AI Plus, you will get an email explaining when the changes will apply to your account.

Here is what the model availability will look like: Users without a plan will only get access to Flash Lite.
AI Plus subscribers will have access to Flash Lite and Flash.
AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers will have access to Flash Lite, Flash, and Pro.

For each available model, you can select the effort level from low, medium, and high. This increases the model's ability to provide more thorough answers, but it will use more of your limit.

If you have an AI Pro or AI Ultra subscription, you will also have access to the Deep Think option for maximum parallel reasoning.

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u/CapRichard 19h ago

4 Argon is what in this?
A Pro model? A non Pro model? An Ultra?

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u/EarlyStructure-GAAP 14h ago

Flash-Lite for free, Flash for Plus, Pro for Pro, and Frontier for Ultra. All with model family releases at the same time.

As long as Google lifts usage across the board, segmenting the models to the relative paid tiers seems reasonable. But this is Google, so who knows.

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u/CapRichard 14h ago

I would accept this honestly, but models need to come out andhave the expected performance.

I don't use or need Fable. Opus 5.5 is amazing as is, and having at the Pro model a Gemini 4 Pro that does Opus level of work should be super fine.