Gemini App Free vs. Paid Features (August 2025)

As of May (I/O) 2025Google offers the Gemini app in three tiers. Many Gemini app features are available for free, while paying $19.99 per month for Google Ai Pro (which includes 2 TB of storage) unlocks a lot more. Google you have ultra at $249.99/month gives you everything else, including cutting edge capabilities.

Update 8/19: Refer to table for updates

[Updated] Gemini models

All Gemini app users get “general access” to 2.5 Flashwhich is the default model. Free users get “limited access” to Gemini 2.5 Pro for “Reasoning, math & code,” with Canvas particularly benefiting from it.

Google AI Pro subscribers get “expanded access” to 2.5 Pro, which we now know translates to 100 queries per day. The company explains model limits as such:

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Gemini Apps has more prompt and chat limits for more advanced models. If you reach your capacity limit for a specific model for a given period, you can switch to a different model until that limit is reached or your capacity limit is refreshed. Gemini app users with Google AI Pro or Google AI Ultra have higher capacity limits for advanced models.

Google you have ultra provides the “highest access” to 2.5 Pro. At the start of AugustDeep Think was introduced as Google’s “most advanced reasoning feature.” This mode can be enabled from the new Tools menu with subscribers originally getting around five prompts per day before that was doubled to 10 or so.

At I/O, Google also teased an upcoming Agent Mode.

Context window

The context window on the free tierwhich applies to all models, is 32,000 tokens or “around 50 pages of text.”

Google Ai Pro and You have ultra users get a long context window of 1 million tokens, which is equivalent to 1,500 pages of text or 30,000 lines of code.

File upload and analysis

Free users can upload documents, slides, images, and videos to get summaries, insights, and ask questions. Up to 10 files (max size of 100 MB) can be uploaded per prompt. Supported file formats include:

• Document files: DOC, DOCX, PDF, RTF, DOT, DOTX, HWP, HWPX
• Documents created in Google Docs
• Plain text files: TXT
• Presentation files: PPTX
• Presentations created with Google Slides
• Images including PNG, JPG, JPEG, WEBP, and HEIF

Uploading spreadsheets and other data files requires Google Ai Pro and You have ultrawith the ability to analyze and visualize (with charts) that information.

• Spreadsheet files: XLS, XLSX
• Spreadsheets created in Google Sheets
• Tabular data files: CSV, TSV

Similarly, the ability to upload code folders and repositories also requires a subscription. Google touts how you can get “insights from thousands of lines of code, make intelligent changes, debug errors, and optimize your code for peak performance.”

• Code files including C, CPP, PY, JAVA, PHP, SQL, and HTML

Video upload

You can upload videos to the Gemini app for analysis. Each clip can be up to 2 GB, with free users limited to 5 minutes. If you’re a Google AI Pro or AI Ultra subscriber, the “total upload length” is 1 hour.

• Videos: MP4, MPEG, MOV, AVI, X-FLV, MPG, WEBM, WMV, 3GPP

[Updated] Reference past chats

Free users have access to Saved info to specify chat preferences (like “I’m a vegetarian” or “Make responses concise”) for every conversation instead of having to add instructions to every prompt.

Meanwhile, Google is rolling out Personal Context to all Gemini users. Your old conversations will be used to personalize Gemini. The ability to reference past chats previously required AI Pro/Ultra. Once available, Saved info in the Settings/profile menu will be replaced by “Personal context” with a new “Your past chats with Gemini” toggle.

Deep Research

Gemini’s first agentic lets users ask a question and get a multi-point research plan that they can further customize. Once approved, Gemini will search the web, analyze what it found, and compose a report. As of I/O 2025, files and images can be uploaded to Deep Research, thus combining user and public knowledge for the final result.

• Free users: “Limited access” to Deep Research, which is is now powered by Gemini 2.5 Flash
• Google Ai Pro: “Expanded access” using 2.5 Pro
• Google you have ultra: “Highest access”

Audio Overviews

• Free users: Limited access
• Google Ai Pro: Expanded access
• Google you have ultra: Highest access

Scheduled actions

Google has rolled out “Scheduled actions,” with users able to have 10 active at any one time. You specify when (time/day/date or after an event) a predefined prompt should run. Afterwards, tap the mobile notification to see the response. You can edit, pause, and delete them from:

• On the web: Settings & help > Scheduled actions
• On mobile: Profile menu > Settings > Scheduled actions

Image generation

All users have “general access” to image generation, which includes creating images with people. As of I/O 2025, the Gemini app is using Imagen 4 for higher quality, richer details, and better text/typography.

There’s also native image editing where you refine pictures (including generated ones and those you’ve uploaded) via text prompts.

Video generation

• Free users: Not available
• Google Ai Pro: Three 8-second 720p clips generated using I see 3 fast per day. Veo 2 afterwards.
• Google you have ultra: Powered by I see 3 with clips featuring sound (effects, noises, etc.)

Both videos use the same prompt: “Aerial shot of a grassy cliff onto a sandy beach where waves crash against the shore, a prominent sea stack rises from the ocean near the beach, bathed in the warm, golden light of either sunrise or sunset, capturing the dramatic elevation change and the serene beauty of the Pacific coastline.”

Other features

• Gems: To build custom versions of Gemini for specific tasks with pre-defined instructions
• Gemini Live