By Kyle Bradshaw
Publication Date: 2026-05-05 22:32:00
Google is quietly preparing a new “AI Ultra Lite” subscription tier to slot between its $20 Pro and $250 Ultra plans, plus a dedicated dashboard for subscribers to see their remaining token budget.
If you’ve been following AI news in recent weeks, you know that after months of rapid adoption of AI agents and coding tools, we’ve now entered a bit of a token crunch. Users of Claude have clamored on social media about what feels like notable decreases to their per-session usage limits, while GitHub Copilot has dramatically adjusted the pricing for many of the models it provides access to. Some people (myself included, admittedly) have taken this as a sign to upgrade to a higher-tier subscription plan to maintain unfettered access.
Then there’s Gemini. While Google certainly offers some of the same niceties as Anthropic’s ecosystem — a Gemini CLI, the Antigravity IDE, AI Studio, Stitch, etc. — the coding capabilities of Gemini have not yet…
