Gemini

Recommended

Google's AI assistant, built right into Search, Gmail, and Docs, with real research and coding chops.

“The AI that's hard to avoid, because it's already built into Gmail, Docs, and Search, and it's genuinely good.”

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4.2/ 5

BettrList score

Pricing: From $0/mo
Free plan: Yes

Gemini

Recommended

Google's AI assistant, built right into Search, Gmail, and Docs, with real research and coding chops.

4.2/ 5

BettrList score

Pricing: From $0/mo
Free plan: Yes

Try Gemini→

Free plan

Yes

Starting price

$4.99/mo

Free trial

30 days (Pro plan)

Context window

1M tokens (Pro)

How we rated it

BettrList score

4.2/ 5

Based on practical use and value.

What we measured

Features4.5

Ease of use4.3

Value for money4.4

Support3.6

Compliance4.4

BettrList score

4.2/ 5

Based on practical use and value.

What we measured

Features4.5

Ease of use4.3

Value for money4.4

Support3.6

Compliance4.4

The verdict

“The AI that's hard to avoid, because it's already built into Gmail, Docs, and Search, and it's genuinely good.”

Read the full BettrList reviewOur detailed evaluation — verdict: Recommended with caveats

Pricing breakdown

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Free

Comes with any Google Account, no sign-up needed.

Access to Gemini's fast model, with some access to the top-tier model
Image generation and editing
Deep Research, Gemini Live, and Canvas
Build custom Gems
15 GB of storage across Gmail, Drive, and Photos

Google AI Plus

$4.99/mo

A cheap way to get noticeably more room before you hit a limit.

2x the usage of Free
Video generation access
Gemini in Gmail, Docs, and more
Early access to Gemini in Chrome
400 GB of storage

Recommended

Google AI Pro

$19.99/mo

The plan most people land on. Comes with a 30-day free trial.

4x the usage of Free
1M-token context window
Higher limits in Jules and Google Antigravity for coding
5x more Gemini Notebook usage
YouTube Premium Lite included
5 TB of storage

Google AI Ultra 5x

$99.99/mo

For people who keep running into Pro's limits.

5x the usage of Pro
Priority access to Google Antigravity
Highest Jules and Gemini Notebook limits below the top tier
YouTube Premium (full plan)
20 TB of storage

Google AI Ultra 20x

$199.99/mo

Google's top tier, with the most usage and first access to new features like Project Genie.

20x the usage of Pro
First access to features like Deep Think and Project Genie
Highest limits in every tool, including Jules and Antigravity
YouTube Premium (full plan)
Storage starting at 20 TB

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All features

Built right into Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Google Search, so you get AI help without switching apps

Deep Research reads through hundreds of sources and puts together a full report in minutes

Generates images, video, and music from a plain text prompt

A context window big enough to hold up to 1,500 pages of documents at once on the Pro plan

Gemini Live lets you have a real, spoken conversation with it instead of typing

Gems let you build your own custom version of Gemini tuned to one specific job

Jules and Google Antigravity give developers an AI agent that can write, test, and fix code on its own

Comes bundled with Google One cloud storage, so your plan also means more space for Gmail, Drive, and Photos

Gemini in Chrome can browse the web and complete multi-step tasks for you

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