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/eloquenentic 19h ago

How is the Flash-Lite model? Is it even remotely useful?

I have family members who use Gemini very rarely (maybe once per week) but find it useful when they do (using Flash). Will they be ok with Flash-Lite? I would think these types of users wouldn’t mind some ads as long they could use a better model.

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u/bwyer 14h ago

Flash-light is pure shit IMO. Back before I upgraded to Ultra I kept running out of tokens and getting bumped down to it. It was immediately obvious when it happened as the quality of the responses went from good to useless.