I was experimenting with the Google AI Pro free trial and noticed almost all of the features can be used on the free plan. Gemini 2.5 Pro and Veo 2 can all be used on the AI Studio website, and the NotebookLM app is accessible for free users too. The only exclusive upgrade would be their new Flow app and the 2TB drive storage, but is that really worth $20 a month?

^{*The gemini site that is, can't edit title :(}

The UI is less functional and uglier, the product offering are fewer and generally lesser versions, no access to state of the art releases or cool toys like in the build tab, no ability to tweak anything meaningfully...

And this is what they want you to pay $20 for while AI Studio is free? I don't get it. I maybe understand not putting preview releases and experimental ventures into your consumer facing product but at least make the UX on par.

Had a 2 TB Google One plan, paid yearly plan until 25 Feb 2025.
I bought a Pixel 8 pro, got 4 months of free Google One Premium.

I made the big mistake of activating the "free trial", this is a scam, they converted my 2 TB Google One plan to Premium AI, being a more expensive plan, so now the yearly plan I had already paid for ends on February 5. Moreover, I think the old plan doesn't exist anymore, they scammed me out of it.

So instead of 4 months for free, I get 20 days removed from my yearly plan. The premium AI features I was curious to try, but I think it is too early, they are going to be useless.

Realized this after 1 hour of activating it, chatted with support, nothing to do! Anyone has suggestions?

Pre-ordered the phone from Vodafone and was told had a year free Pro AI - can't see this or how to claim does anybody know how or had any success with Vodafone on this. Cheers

Edit: Support said I had a one month trial of Google one back in 2021 that affects my eligibility for a 1 year AI Pro as this only applies to new customers. Despite me never having used AI Pro before, they still deem my 1 month trial 4 years ago as ineligible for this offer. Hope this helps others!

Edit: Live support seem to be passing the majority of people onto a higher support that never seems to go anywhere. Additionally within the comments someone kindly posted the terms and conditions which are here:

https://one.google.com/offer/terms-and-conditions/pixel10pro-12month-aipro?g1_landing_page=0

UPDATE 30/9: Opening Google One this afternoon I was able to claim the 1 year free Pro AI. I didn't see an option to get the 6 month YouTube premium as part of that but the Pro AI is now working! Thanks for all comments.