{"id":630729,"date":"2026-06-10T07:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/630729\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T07:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:40:20","slug":"google-one-might-be-the-best-tech-subscription-no-thanks-to-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/630729\/","title":{"rendered":"Google One might be the best tech subscription, no thanks to AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google One has long been offered as a way to expand the storage across products like Drive, Gmail, and Photos, but Google has been pivoting it towards a focus on AI. And while that\u2019s compelling for some, the real value in Google\u2019s AI storage subscriptions is now coming from everything else \u2013 and it\u2019s simply one of the best deals in tech today.<\/p>\n

Cloud storage is a big part of basically every tech product you might want to use in 2026. Google already offers far more storage than most for free, with most accounts<\/a> getting 15GB of storage without any cost at all. From there, you can pay extra to open up a bigger and bigger allotment of cloud storage to be used with your Google account.<\/p>\n

For the longest time, that meant paying $2\/month for 100GB, $3 for 200GB, $10 for 2TB, and so on. And, while there have always been a few perks in Google One, the storage was the main selling point.<\/p>\n

In its \u201cGemini era,\u201d though, Google has rethought these storage subscriptions, and it\u2019s a win for everyone.<\/p>\n

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This is a thought that\u2019s been bouncing around my head for the past few months, as Google just keeps piling on more reasons to pay up for one of its various AI-centric storage plans \u2013 and it\u2019s better than ever as of this week.<\/p>\n

Google One\u2019s AI plans consist of AI Plus for $4.99\/month, AI Pro for $19.99\/month, or AI Ultra starting at $99.99\/month. And if these were just for AI, we quite simply wouldn\u2019t be having this discussion. Whether it\u2019s ChatGPT or Claude or whatever, AI subscriptions have yet to prove their value for the general consumer in many cases. It\u2019s a hard sell to fork over $20 per month just for the sake of more AI usage. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s where Google has really done a good job in making these subscriptions appealing, not just for the sake of AI.<\/p>\n

Starting with the Google One AI Plus subscription, $4.99\/month, which includes 400GB of storage, 2x usage limits in Gemini, and access to AI features you don\u2019t get in base Gemini, such as Daily Brief<\/a>. The AI improvements are welcome, but for many, just getting the option to pay $5 per month for 400GB of storage is a big deal. That sort of middle ground never existed in Google\u2019s previous setup, and it\u2019s not common anywhere else. <\/p>\n

Google One AI Pro takes that a step further. You could pay $10\/month for 2TB of storage, or you could pay $19.99 for 5TB<\/a> \u2013 plus YouTube Premium Lite<\/a>, plus Google Home Premium, plus Google Health Premium<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Split apart, that\u2019s around $38 in monthly value. For $20. It\u2019s an absolute steal.<\/p>\n

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AI Ultra is less of a great deal, at least for most people. For $99.99\/month, you do get 20TB of storage, which is nothing to write off, but the rest of the perks don\u2019t add up to the cost. YouTube Premium, Google Home, and Health only make so much of a dent in that monthly cost \u2013 you\u2019re either getting your value here from the AI or from the storage.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s really the point.<\/p>\n

Unlike OpenAI, Anthropic, and everyone else in the AI world, Google One\u2019s AI plans aren\u2019t just an AI subscription. They\u2019re valuable cloud storage, they\u2019re a bundle, and more than anything, they\u2019re just a good deal. I\u2019d very much argue that, at this moment, Google AI Pro is the most valuable subscription I have, and it\u2019s certainly not thanks to Gemini.<\/p>\n

As the cost of literally everything continues to go up, Google One\u2019s subscriptions are a rare place where I actually feel like I\u2019m getting my money\u2019s worth, and maybe even getting more value than I\u2019m paying for.<\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n

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