Google on Wednesday launched its more affordable AI Plus plan in India as it seeks to compete on pricing with other low-cost AI offerings, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT Go subscription.
For new users in India, Google is offering AI Plus for ₹199 ($2.21) per month, for the first six months, after which you’ll have to pay ₹399 ($4.44) a month.
The AI Plus plan gives users higher limits for Gemini 3 Pro and image editing model Nano Banana Pro; access to video generation in the Gemini and Flow apps; expanded access to deep research in NotebookLM; and 200GB of storage across Photos, Drive and Gmail. Subscribers can give access to up to family members, too.
Before this, Google’s cheapest AI subscription available in the country was AI Pro, which was priced at ₹1,950 per month ($21.69).
But Google is late to customize its pricing for India, as the AI Plus plan was first introduced in Indonesia in September, and offered it in other countries that very month. OpenAI debuted its sub-$5, ChatGPT Go plan in India in August and made it available in other countries in subsequent months. The plan allows users to have 10 times more limits than the free plan for messages, image generation, and file uploads.
AI companies have been busy offering freebies in India as they seek to tap its huge population for users. First, Perplexity partnered with telco Airtel to offer its Pro plan for a year to all Airtel customers for free. OpenAI also offered ChatGPT Go free for a year to existing subscribers of Go and new users.
Meanwhile, Google teamed up with telco Reliance Jio to offer its AI Pro plan for 18 months at no cost to users on a certain carrier plan.
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