How Google’s New Gemini Rates Work and How to Track Your Usage

Google doesn’t specify what the usage limits are connected the escaped tier—it describes them lone arsenic “standard.” You past get 2x these “standard” limits connected the AI Plus plan, and 4x connected the AI Pro plan. The AI Ultra limits are either 5x oregon 20x higher than those connected AI Pro, depending connected which level of outgo you’re on.

All users person entree to each the Gemini AI models, including Flash-Lite, Flash, and Pro. As you advancement done those models, they get smarter and volition number much toward usage. Each exemplary besides has antithetic “thinking” levels—Standard, Extended, and Deep Think—which besides impact effect quality, speed, and usage limits.

The last quality betwixt these models is discourse model size. Basically, this indicates however overmuch accusation you tin see successful a azygous speech thread. For escaped users, the discourse model is 32K tokens (small chunks of text)—roughly 24,000 words. For AI Plus users, it goes up to 128K tokens (about 96,000 words), and for AI Pro and Ultra users, the bounds is simply a cardinal tokens (about 750,000 words).

Check Your AI Usage

While the caller rules astir AI usage whitethorn beryllium lacking successful specifics, astatine slightest it’s casual capable to cheque your status. In the Gemini app connected the web, click the cog icon (lower left) past Usage limits; successful the mobile app for Android oregon iOS, pat the paper fastener (top left), past the cog, past Usage limits.

You’ll spot 2 bars. The apical barroom shows your existent usage, which resets each 5 hours. If you tally done this, you’ll request to hold earlier coming back; the Gemini app tells you the clip of the adjacent reset.

The 2nd barroom is your play limit, which arsenic you mightiness expect, resets each week. (Again, this volition beryllium shown onscreen.) If you deed these limits and you’re connected a paid plan, you’ll beryllium demoted to the astir basal AI model, which you tin proceed to usage until the adjacent reset.

You will, inevitably, spot offers to upgrade your AI program connected the usage limits screen. It’s besides worthy bearing successful caput that Google’s enactment documents accidental limits whitethorn alteration without notice, owed to capableness constraints—and that escaped users whitethorn beryllium affected archetypal if Google needs to negociate its AI resources.