Google moves free Gemini to Flash-Lite and launches Nano Banana 2.1
From today, Gemini app users without a paid Google AI plan start losing two of its three models. Free personal accounts move to Gemini Flash-Lite only, according to Google’s Gemini Apps Help page. The change comes three days after Google released Nano Banana 2.1, a new image model built on Gemini 3.6 Flash.
Subscribers to AI Plus, Google’s cheapest plan, keep Flash-Lite and Flash but lose Pro. Google says they will receive an email explaining when the change applies to them. AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers keep all three models.
Earlier this year
Google released Nano Banana 2, also called Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, as a preview on 26 February. On 17 May, it moved Gemini app users over 18 to compute-based usage limits. The limits refresh every five hours until a user reaches a weekly cap. Prompt complexity, the features used and the length of a chat...
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