Should you downgrade to Google AI Plus?

Google AI Plus came to the US this week as the more affordable alternative to AI Pro, which previously served as the entry point to premium Gemini features. Whether it’s worth downgrading comes down to how you use Google AI.

AI Plus vs. AI Pro features

Gemini app 

Those looking to experience the absolute best that Google has to offer should use Gemini 3 Pro. For everyone else with prompts of a more informational nature, Thinking (Gemini 3 Flash) should absolutely suffice. The 90 Thinking prompts per day provided by AI Plus is likely enough to serve as your default model. You’d use the 30 Pro prompts as necessary, with that limit not high enough to set Pro as your default, while there’s “limited” access to Deep Research using Pro. 

Then there’s the context size:

• Free: 32,000 tokens or about 50 pages of text
• AI Plus: 128,000 tokens 
• AI Pro: 1 million tokens or 1,500 pages

AI Plus offers a meaningful upgrade over free, but…