Google rolls out $5 AI Plus plan in Asia, Africa, and Latin America

After a successful launch in Indonesia, Google expanded its $5 AI Plus plan to 40 additional ￰0￱ plan includes access to Gemini 2.5 pro, video and image generation tools, NotebookLM, and 200 GB of cloud ￰1￱ plan is an affordable alternative to the company’s premium subscriptions, including AI Pro and Ultra ￰2￱ has been packaged with a set of features at a rough cost of $5 to $6 per month, depending on ￰3￱ from countries such as Mexico and Nepal are also eligible for a 50% discount for the first six ￰4￱ AI Plus Plan adds NotebookLM, Gmail, and Docs integration According to an update by Rohan Shah, Director of Engineering at Google One, subscribers can gain access to Gemini 2.5 Pro, along with extended limits for image and video ￰5￱ 3 Fast model for video generation, Whisk and Flow creative tools, and the Nano Banana image editing model will all be included in the AI Plus ￰6￱ AI Plus is now available in 40+ countries 🌏 Google AI Plus is our newest plan designed to empower people in emerging markets to do more with Google AI, for less.

Now, even more people around the world can access our productivity and creativity tools at a more accessible… ￰7￱ — Google Gemini App (@GeminiApp) September 23, 2025 Additionally, the plan includes integration with Gmail, Docs, and Sheets, as well as expanded access to ￰8￱ will also be entitled to 200GB of cloud storage access across Google Photos, Drive, and Gmail, which can be shared with up to five family members; however, the AI features will remain exclusive to the account ￰9￱ Shah confirmed the expansion, citing a strong demand from the initial rollout in ￰10￱ noted that the reception has been positive and therefore triggered the expansion to more ￰11￱ countries included in the plan include Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, El Salvador, Ghana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mali, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia and ￰12￱ $5 plan followed the introduction of Google’s AI-powered search model in Pakistan on August 27.

Pakistan’s Country Director for Google, Farhan Qureshi, revealed that the new plan is a result of the search engine firm’s long-term commitment to the country’s digital ￰13￱ highlighted that the creativity displayed by Pakistanis in adopting AI tools has inspired the expansion and confirmed that it is the core part of their commitment to fuel Pakistanis’ digital transformation, while ensuring everyone gets the chance to enhance their productivity, creativity, and learning with ￰14￱ Plus Plan targets Asia, Africa, and Latin America, leaving out the ￰15￱ Google’s top-tier plans, including the AI Pro plan, are currently priced at $20 per month, while the AI Ultra plan is priced at $250 per ￰16￱ two plans offer larger storage options and higher usage ￰17￱ to the Director of Engineering, Rohan Shah, AI Plus is intended to provide entry-level experience to accelerate AI ￰18￱ instance, the Pro plan includes 2TB of cloud storage while the Ultra plan includes 30 TB of storage, showing the disparity between the different tiers of the subscriptions.

Google’s expansion rollout follows OpenAI’s extension of its affordable version subscription for ChatGPT to ￰19￱ covered the story yesterday, noting the pricing of ChatGPT GO at $4.75 per ￰20￱ new tier has been priced between the free version and the premium ChatGPT Plus and Pro plans, which offer 10 times higher usage ￰21￱ extended ChatGPT Go allows the chatbot to save past conversations for a more personalized ￰22￱ extended plan by OpenAI is also available in India at $5 per month, which was rolled out just last ￰23￱ of ChatGPT, Nick Turley, confirmed that subscriptions doubled after the India ￰24￱ confirmed in its statement that the low-cost plan will not be available for ￰25￱ at this stage.

Instead, it has shifted its focus to Asian, African, Latin American, and Eastern European nations, where the higher-tier plans have received little to no ￰26￱ smartest crypto minds already read our ￰27￱ in? Join them .