Google launches sub-$5 AI Plus plan in India to compete with ChatGPT Go

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Google connected Wednesday launched its much affordable AI Plus program successful India arsenic it seeks to vie connected pricing with different low-cost AI offerings, similar OpenAI’s ChatGPT Go subscription.

For caller users successful India, Google is offering AI Plus for ₹199 ($2.21) per month, for the archetypal six months, aft which you’ll person to wage ₹399 ($4.44) a month.

The AI Plus program gives users higher limits for Gemini 3 Pro and representation editing exemplary Nano Banana Pro; entree to video procreation successful the Gemini and Flow apps; expanded entree to heavy probe successful NotebookLM; and 200GB of retention crossed Photos, Drive and Gmail. Subscribers tin springiness entree to up to household members, too.

Before this, Google’s cheapest AI subscription disposable successful the state was AI Pro, which was priced astatine ₹1,950 per period ($21.69).

But Google is precocious to customize its pricing for India, arsenic the AI Plus program was archetypal introduced in Indonesia successful September, and offered it successful other countries that precise month. OpenAI debuted its sub-$5, ChatGPT Go program successful India successful August and made it disposable successful different countries successful consequent months. The program allows users to person 10 times much limits than the escaped program for messages, representation generation, and record uploads.

AI companies person been engaged offering freebies successful India arsenic they question to pat its immense colonisation for users. First, Perplexity partnered with telco Airtel to connection its Pro program for a twelvemonth to each Airtel customers for free. OpenAI besides offered ChatGPT Go escaped for a year to existing subscribers of Go and caller users.

Meanwhile, Google teamed up with telco Reliance Jio to connection its AI Pro program for 18 months astatine nary outgo to users connected a definite bearer plan.

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