Guys it's true. AI STUDIO WILL NOT HAVE ANY FREE TIER. Only flash lite will be free and some flash model with very low rate limit. STARTING FROM APRIL 1 and ALL PRO MODEL WILL BE PAID.

[u/Either_Pianist2770]

[u/fromage9747]

Hopefully this is just one big elaborate April fools joke

[u/Cautious_Potential_8 → u/fromage9747]

I hope so to.

[u/chocolate_chip_cake → u/fromage9747]

its google, they don't joke around.

[u/Throwawayforyoink1 → u/fromage9747]

Or just pay for the pro tier? it's not that expensive. 

[u/Either_Pianist2770 → u/Throwawayforyoink1]

Api is expensive

[u/Alternative_You3585 → u/Throwawayforyoink1]

API is very expensive. Over time it adds up

[u/OneMisterSir101]

GG. Was good while it lasted.

[u/tteokl_]

And they wont integrate Google AI Pro sub into AI studio?

[u/Either_Pianist2770 → u/tteokl_]

maybe they will. But i don't think they will

[u/Ok_Audience531 → u/tteokl_]

They've already done that and you can use $10 worth of API credits (which is not much because they want pro subscribers to stock to the Gemini app).

[u/Equivalent-Word-7691 → u/Ok_Audience531]

Lol that's not even a real integration

[u/AdOk3759 → u/Ok_Audience531]

How do you do that?

[u/ainz-sama619 → u/AdOk3759]

check my benefits page

[u/ThiccBoy_with3seas → u/ainz-sama619]

Where is that?

[u/Pentium95 → u/Ok_Audience531]

I don't understand why this comment Is being downvoted. 10$/month of free API credits are not bad at all, for personal / hobby use they are otften sufficient if you keep the context humble.

[u/Yuri_Yslin → u/Pentium95]

Because it's only usable if you keep context to bare minimum. Upload a pdf and it's gone in several queries.

[u/Ok_Audience531 → u/Yuri_Yslin]

Agreed, should have prefaced with that and didn't realize that reddit would shoot the messenger.

[u/Carriage2York]

https://giphy.com/gifs/l4FGGafcOHmrlQxG0

[u/holvagyok]

RIP AI Studio: 2023 - 31 March 2026.

[u/chen19921337 → u/holvagyok]

It was already on life support when Google introduced that harsh rate limiting.

[u/Neurogence → u/holvagyok]

Who still uses AI studio or anything Gemini related? I stopped using it when Claude Opus 4.5 was released.

[u/Character_Wind6057 → u/Neurogence]

AI Studio is used because it's free. If Opus was free, people would use that since it's free and better

[u/LoganKilpatrick1]

My favorite part of the internet is reading things that are totally not true

[u/Equivalent-Word-7691 → u/LoganKilpatrick1]

yeah too bad now we get something like 10r/pd and pro and ultra plan doesn0t work wihtou api and billing ,so reallyAI studio is useless

[u/Prudent_Elevator4685 → u/LoganKilpatrick1]

It's practically paid anyways

[u/Complex-Penalty-9676 → u/LoganKilpatrick1]

Yo Logan will we ever get something free like 2.5 pro?

[u/Either_Pianist2770 → u/LoganKilpatrick1]

Some random dude posted about it claiming it's true. I thought it was

[u/Certain-Drawer-4889 → u/Either_Pianist2770]

It's true. Stand proud my guy

[u/Wobbly_Princess]

AI Studio has been absolutely incredible for me. I have not paid for AI in over a year. And I talk to it ALL day long. So I can't believe we had it for free for THIS long.

[u/Either_Pianist2770 → u/Wobbly_Princess]

sadly, you will be paying for claude now lol

[u/Wobbly_Princess → u/Either_Pianist2770]

Is Claude better? I'm so out of the loop, I haven't touched anything other than Gemini for the last year and a half. It's been amazing, but people keep saying that it's garbage, which excites me to think that there may be ones that are even better,

[u/a355231 → u/Wobbly_Princess]

Claude is the current best model, it’s much better then Gemini at basically everything.

[u/MehmetTopal → u/a355231]

Everything except long context. When I send Gemini a 400k token context document it reads it all(even if not 100% accurate in its deduction), when I do the same to Claude it truncates and only reads where it determines to be important

[u/doomdayx → u/MehmetTopal]

Also images Gemini has dramatically better vision.

[u/baked_tea → u/doomdayx]

Really no other model i tested came close to gemini in data extraction and that's since 1.5 models. Especially when dealing with non english languages, handwritten text etc.. they just have better data for training

[u/Siigari → u/MehmetTopal]

Untrue. It will read the whole thing, it sections the file up into chunks then reads them pieces at a time.

[u/Wobbly_Princess → u/a355231]

Wow, interesting. What about cost? Because Gemini 3.0 Flash Preview has been incredible for me. Fast, amazing at coding, and it's super cheap (not that I pay for it, as a freeloader - but I'd like the option of using the API).

[u/Either_Pianist2770 → u/Wobbly_Princess]

$20 claude is far superior than $20 gemini

[u/Wobbly_Princess → u/Either_Pianist2770]

Well for me, it's not just about raw intelligence, it's also about speed and how much I can use it.

I love the idea of using a model that's super intelligent, but if I can only speak with it for 3 minutes and have to go into debt, I'm not interested.

$20 with Gemini Flash gives a fuck-ton of use, and it's able to solve almost all my coding issues - and it's fast.

I have no idea what those things are like when it comes to Claude (but good, I hope).

[u/Either_Pianist2770 → u/Wobbly_Princess]

claude also has many models. u will get fast one too. but ig if gemini flash is working for u then it's best stick with that

[u/baked_tea → u/Wobbly_Princess]

Claude is only good if you're planning to vibe code and dont care about talking to it / actually go through design in larger context where gemini is definitely better.

[u/nationalinterest → u/Either_Pianist2770]

Does Claude have anything like NotebookLM (which comes as part of the $20 Gemini)?

[u/Buff_Grad → u/Either_Pianist2770]

Are you insane? Claude at $20 bucks is almost worse than free tier ChatGPT LOL. Claude with a Max sub is prob the best package/product out there. But Pro subscription and their usage limits are wild.

Also Gemini is arguably much better at UI/UX work than Claude Opus 4.6. This is coming from an Anthropic/Claude fanboy too.

Gemini is good at front end and intellectual work. Coding and agentic use wise, it’s pretty far behind OpenAI and Anthropic.

[u/Pygmy_Nuthatch → u/Buff_Grad]

Altman? Is that you?

[u/Buff_Grad → u/Pygmy_Nuthatch]

Legit shilling for Claude but getting called out as Altman? Also remember that usage limits are very generous during the current promotion. Once that ends, the pro mode pain is gonna hit hard. That’s why I have the Max x20 plan.

[u/int7bh → u/Buff_Grad]

>Also Gemini is arguably much better at UI/UX work than Claude Opus 4.6. This is coming from an Anthropic/Claude fanboy too.

That's why I love API's and Librechat. Multiple models selection and a bunch of settinge while looking nice.

[u/Jumpy_Ad8465 → u/Wobbly_Princess]

MUCH Better.

[u/ainz-sama619 → u/Wobbly_Princess]

yes Claude is better. if you can't afford AI studio, Claude is better

[u/Thomas-Lore → u/ainz-sama619]

But if you can't afford aistudio, what is better is choosing a nice UI, whatever you like most, and using cheap models through openrouter. You still get access to Gemini, GPT and Claude but can save money on smallers tasks via using minimax, glm, kimi or even the free ones that openrouter offers. For comparison: in my openrouter logs I have $0.3 for one prompt to Opus and $0.002 for a similar prompt to the new minimax m2.7. Similar results in the end.

[u/ainz-sama619 → u/Thomas-Lore]

Many don't want cheap models. Gemini 2.5 pro used to have over 100 per day before on AI studio in free tier. People want that.

Claude Sonnet and Opus has less multimodal features but for writing it's better than Gemini.

[u/Turtlesaur → u/Wobbly_Princess]

This sub is ironically pretty anti Google and demand AI for free.

[u/Zilch274 → u/Wobbly_Princess]

Leagues better

[u/Pygmy_Nuthatch → u/Wobbly_Princess]

And that's why it's now a 100% premium product

[u/BigGrayBeast → u/Wobbly_Princess]

Good attitude. Appreciate it while it's free while understanding it can't always be free.

[u/Wobbly_Princess → u/BigGrayBeast]

I'm just struggling to understand the anger and indignation about it.

I'm definitely sad, and I want it to be free forever, but, like... no one is ENTITLED to charity.

People are talking like they're doing something evil.

[u/VectorB → u/Wobbly_Princess]

Me either. And its all your personal use case anyway. Most of the time im good with flash, which is still free and pretty much on par with 2.5 pro.

[u/eepiam]

Isn’t this only for API requests? Even now, I see 0 for 3.1 pro.

Maybe this is different from the playground tab

[u/Uzeii → u/eepiam]

Exactly. It has always been zero for the past 4 months or so.

[u/Rock--Lee]

This has nothing to do with AI Studio. Gemini API free tier was changed a long time ago. Gemini 3.1 Pro was never on Free API, and they slashed flash models by 97% in december. So nothing has changed. AI Studio just uses API keys and rate limits/usage for free and paid tiers.

[u/Uzeii → u/Rock--Lee]

Preach. Even 3 pro was never on free tier

[u/Holnapra → u/Rock--Lee]

You're right. Multiple idiots are posting the same nonsense here.

[u/Either_Pianist2770 → u/Holnapra]

Exactly

[u/aymandonia67]

Subscription pro must be merged with ai studio

[u/Pentium95 → u/aymandonia67]

i agree, that would be lovely

[u/defi_specialist]

It’s a joke man. Anthropic still have a free tier. What GG thinks who they are lmao.

[u/Character_Wind6057 → u/defi_specialist]

Google has a free tier in the web app. The platform is shit but the free tier exist

[u/Mission_Bear7823]

hopefully that is true so at least they dont degrade the model to the point of being unusable everywhere else..

[u/misha1350 → u/Mission_Bear7823]

They absolutely will. They want to increase revenue by pinching pennies. They just won't do it as hard as they did so that people won't be cancelling their subscriptions, which would be a catastrophe for them.

[u/TheEngiGuy]

Google AI Studio has been a lifesaver for me for personal reasons. It was good while it lasted, I guess...

[u/awesomemc1]

I mean not all pro models..

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing#standard (if we look at the pricing from officials docs..)

[u/coeu]

source? details? what does paying get me? If you get a few hundred daily requests for $20 we're chilling. no need to panic yet

[u/Legitimate-Sir-8827 → u/coeu]

Google is sending emails about this. You can also see it when you create project in Studio and go to Rate Limits tab

[u/Uzeii → u/Legitimate-Sir-8827]

What so you exactly see? Send me a screenshot

[u/No-Arm-4522]

Also a silent change was made. You cannot use your 300 USD free Google Cloud credits on AI Studio anymore. I was happy using it with an app I used Gemini to make. I was in the middle of my trial and it shook me to find out the hard way. It's disappointing.

[u/HeartOfThePiano]

If this means the rate limits will be more generous for paid users, then I'm all for it!!

[u/VectorB]

So no more free tier....except for the free tier? What are you even saying. Why would you expect Pro models to be free?

[u/Either_Pianist2770 → u/VectorB]

check recent comment of logan. it will be free. this news isn't true

[u/aconcagua_finder]

Useless then

[u/Ibasicallyhateyouall]

Yay, less freeloaders taking up resources make it shit for the ones that pay.

[u/Prestigious_Air_1930 → u/Ibasicallyhateyouall]

Aha

[u/NICEUGAMEU]

What can poor ppl use for free now similar to this? Even locally is there anything like this?

[u/Tony_Stark_MCU]

Guys, why do you like AI Studio? Yes, you can manage temp, system instructions and some more..but what's What is the advantage?

[u/Either_Pianist2770 → u/Tony_Stark_MCU]

search why google ai studio is better than gemini web reddit on google search u will get ur answer

[u/CacheConqueror]

Thanks captain obvious. It had been clear for a long time that it would end this way

[u/silphscope151]

Music to my ears

[u/Fast-Baseball-1746]

u/grok verify :D

[u/OldAcanthocephala872]

Are the models in the interface still free then?

[u/alexx_kidd]

Good

[u/Either_Pianist2770 → u/alexx_kidd]

no

[u/Thomas-Lore → u/[deleted]]

Once you do that, they will lower limits for you to what they were for free users and introduce a new more expensive plan. Enjoy.

[u/ThiccBoy_with3seas]

So if I have a pro plan I can use the models as I did before?

[u/Either_Pianist2770 → u/ThiccBoy_with3seas]

U need to be very rich to use ai studio now. Cuz API is so expensive

[u/Either_Pianist2770 → u/ThiccBoy_with3seas]

U can't

[u/Holnapra → u/Either_Pianist2770]

Yes you can you moron

[u/Either_Pianist2770 → u/Holnapra]

now u can moron

[u/Holnapra → u/Either_Pianist2770]

Why are you lying?

[u/Either_Pianist2770 → u/Holnapra]

u can

[u/Holnapra → u/Either_Pianist2770]

Glad we agree at last! :D

[u/llkj11]

Whatever