Google One: Premium, AI Pro, AI Ultra, and every key feature

Google One made its debut in May 2018 as a rebranding for paid Google Drive storage before adding premium Workspace app tools for business. Now it doubles as a one-stop shop for all the latest Gemini AI perks, from Gemini 2.5 Pro and Veo 2 to NotebookLM.

Google used to offer unlimited high-quality photos storage to Pixel owners; now, you have to subscribe monthly to Google One for the privilege. So if you're running out of your free 15GB of Drive storage, you need a Google One subscription.

Gemini fans must subscribe to the Google One AI Pro tier to get more powerful smarts that aren't available to free users. We'll break down every paid perk to help you decide if this tier is worth your money — or if you need the "AI Ultra" tier for an exorbitant $250 per month.

Here's everything you need to know about Google One, from pricing to benefits!

Pricing

If you want to buy more cloud storage for your Google Drive account, that's handled through Google One. Google provides 15GB of storage for free to all users, shared across Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos. Should you exceed that limit, you will need to pick up a paid plan.

The current mainstream paid plans are Lite (30GB), Basic (100GB), Standard (200GB), Premium (2TB), and AI Pro (also 2TB). Lite is only available in Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Mexico. Google hides the 200GB Standard plan on most Google One webpages and the app, but we can still see it at this link.

Otherwise, you can pay extra for higher storage tiers: 5TB, 10TB, 20TB, and 30TB. But Google won't let you choose these directly; start by subscribing to Premium, and then go to Settings > Change Membership plan > Upgrade options in the Google One app to pay for more storage.

Here's how much Google One costs in various markets around the world:

Eligible students can get free access to the AI Pro plan through June 2026, so long as you prove enrollment in August 2025.

For everyone else, you can typically get a small discount on your first three months or first year, before things revert to full price.

The expensive Google One AI Ultra tier is currently only available in the U.S. It should arrive in 70 countries soon, but the U.K., India, and other countries aren't in the initial list.

As a final sidenote, U.S. T-Mobile customers have exclusive Google One offers: $5/month for 500GB or $15/month for the 2TB tier plus "unlimited" Google Photos storage.

Google One Basic & Standard perks

If you subscribe to Google One Basic or Standard, you get 100GB or 200GB of storage, shared across Google Drive, Photos, and Gmail.

Using "Backup by Google One," you can automatically back up your phone's photos, apps and app data, call history, contacts, RCS and SMS messages, and Google Photos. You can do so without a paid One plan, but your 15GB of free space will fill up quickly without it.

You can share that cloud storage with up to five people, so long as they're within your Google Family. Doing so doesn't give family members access to your private files, only a portion of the storage.

The 200GB plan also offers 3% back on Google Store purchases. You used to get access to the Google One VPN, but Google shut it down in 2024, claiming One users "weren't using it."

For a wider range of Google One perks and more cash back, you'll need a "Premium" plan.

Google One Premium perks

Aside from a generous 2TB allotment of storage, the Google One Premium plan is designed to tempt you with other goodies, starting with the aforementioned 10% credit back on Google Store purchases, plus 14% off a YouTube Premium plan (or about $2 off).

Google One Premium gives you access to "Unlimited Magic Editor saves in Google Photos." While Pixel owners get unrestricted Magic Editor access on-device, everyone else can only save 10 magic edits per month without this plan. This lets you "change the position of people and objects, improve backgrounds, and more" using generative AI on iOS, computers, and non-Pixel Android phones.

You also get premium Workspace app benefits. This Google Support page runs through the full list, but these are the highlights:

• Google Calendar: You can set up pro booking pages so people can set up an appointment with your business, with limits like not booking too many appointments or with not enough notice before the slot.
• Google Meet: Host 100-person Meet calls for up to 24 hours, with AI-powered background noise cancellation and the option to record meetings to Drive. Or you can livestream your Meet call on YouTube.

If you upgrade to a 5TB storage plan or higher, you should get the same side perks as the 2TB plan. You must pay for the AI Pro plan to get the full array of Gemini perks.

Google One AI Pro

Aside from all the Premium perks above, the Google One AI Pro plan offers the following perks:

• Access to Gemini 2.5 Pro, including Deep Research, a "personal AI research assistant" that generates "detailed, easy-to-read reports on just about any research topic."
• The Flow AI filmmaking tool that uses Veo 3 for video, Imagen 4 for images, and Gemini for smarts to create content based on a text description, with the ability to edit camera angles, zoom, or other aspects.
• The Whisk tool based on Veo 2 enables you to take still genAI images and convert them into short, "photorealistic" clips.
• You get 1,000 monthly AI credits for Flow and Whisk. A standard video or animation uses 10 credits, while a "Quality" video uses 100 credits. If you run out, you must pay $25 for another 2,500 credits.
• The NotebookLM app is another research assistant tool, letting you add PDFs, YouTube videos, or websites as "sources" and then listening to Audio Overviews for accessible highlights of the information.
• Get access to Gemini AI insights directly in Chrome and Google apps like Gmail and Docs.

Essentially, Google One AI Pro — replacing the old Google One AI Premium Plan — is designed for people who regularly use Gemini for work or school, needing help with research or image and video creation. Other versions of Gemini and its image creation tools are available for free, if you can't afford the $20/month subscription.

Google One AI Ultra

Introducing Google AI Ultra: The best of Google AI in one subscription - YouTube

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Most people will never pay $250/month for a subscription. Google says the plan is for a "filmmaker, developer, creative professional," or someone who demands "the absolute best of Google AI with the highest level of access."

On top of all the AI Pro perks above, the AI Ultra plan gets exclusive access to 2.5 Pro Deep Think, full access to Veo 3, an improved version of NotebookLM, early access to the Project Mariner Chrome extension for AI browsing, free access to YouTube Premium, 30TB of storage, and 12,000 credits for Flow and Whisk. That's enough for 1,250 Veo 2-generated videos or 83 "highest quality" Veo 3 videos.