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TL; DR
- Google is quietly developing AI Ultra Lite as a new subscription option for Gemini.
- The AI Ultra Lite, codenamed “Neon,” could come in under the $20-$250 range offered by the AI Pro and AI Ultra.
- Google is also working on adding a new AI usage limit dashboard.
Currently, Google’s subscription AI offerings have a pretty big gap between AI Pro and AI Pro AI Ultra levels. But evidence suggests that Google may be quietly developing a new option between the two: AI Ultra Lite.
We can see the name of the upcoming Google AI subscription tier in the macOS version of the Gemini app in a text line and visible with the code name “Neon”.
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Since AI Pro costs $20 per month and the original AI Ultra costs $250, the price of AI Ultra Lite will likely fall somewhere between the two. Whatever the final cost, it could mean that it can provide everything that AI Pro offers and many of the features that the original AI Ultra offers, but perhaps with slightly lower usage limits. For example, it may offer access to Deep Thinking reasoning mode, but it doesn’t Project Genius.
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In addition to the new subscription tier, 9 to 5 Google The obvious lines of text suggesting that Google is working on a new page in Gemini dedicated to tracking open AI usage limits and how close you are to reaching that quota at any given time:
Code
GXU_FIVE_HOURLY
GXU_WEEKLY
OVERAGE_CREDITSThese lines could mean that the page will take users to a dashboard that takes into account separate five-hour and weekly usage limits, as well as age credits beyond what the subscription plan allows — as we’ve seen with peers like Anthropic.
Details on the AI Ultra Lite are pretty sparse at the moment, but we’ll see what it looks like and whether or not it keeps that ‘Ultra Lite’ moniker. Google I/O 2026that’s a little less than two weeks.
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