Google Gemini

Google's AI assistant, now with Gemini 4 Argon on paid plans

LLMs & Chat Freemium Has API
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RECATOOLS Score
8.7 / 10
Capability
9
Value for money
8
Ease of use
9
ASEAN readiness
8
API quality
9
Founded
2023
HQ
Mountain View, California
Users
Hundreds of millions via Google products
Launched
Dec 2023
Developer
Google

Overview

Google Gemini is Google's AI assistant, formerly Bard, on web, mobile, Android Auto and Mac and Windows desktop apps. Gemini 4 Argon, Google's frontier model from 13 October 2026, is on the Pro and Ultra plans; the free tier lists Flash-Lite. It connects to Gmail, Drive and other apps and runs Deep Research, Canvas and Gemini Live.

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Pricing

Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 14 Oct 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.

Free
$0
With a Google account
  • Access to the Flash-Lite model
  • Image generation and editing, Deep Research, Gemini Live, Canvas and Gems
  • 15 GB of cloud storage
Google AI Plus
SGD 6.98/month
US$4.99 a month; 2x Free usage
  • Access to the Flash model
  • 200 Google Flow credits
  • Gemini in Gmail, Vids and more
  • 400 GB of storage
Google AI Ultra
SGD 139.99/month
US$99.99 a month; 5x Pro usage
  • Highest access to the Pro and Flash models
  • 10,000 Google Flow credits
  • Project Genie and YouTube Premium
  • 20 TB of storage
Google AI Ultra (20x)
SGD 289.98/month
US$199.99 a month; 20x Pro usage
  • 25,000 Google Flow credits
  • Highest Antigravity rate limits
  • First access to features such as Tasks in Gemini

API pricing (pay as you go)

Model Input Cached input Output
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Prompts <=200k tokens; >200k: $4 in, $0.40 cache, $18 out. No free tier. $2 $0.20 $12
Gemini 3.8 Flash Through 31 Dec 2026; from 1 Jan 2027 $1.50 in / $0.15 cache / $7.50 out. $0.75 $0.075 $3.75
Gemini 3.7 Flash Through 31 Dec 2026; from 1 Jan 2027 $1.50 / $0.15 / $7.50. $0.75 $0.075 $3.75
Gemini 3.5 Flash $1.50 $0.15 $9
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Input rate covers text, image, video and audio. $0.30 $0.03 $2.50
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Text/image/video rate; audio input $0.50, audio cache $0.05. $0.25 $0.025 $1.50
Gemini 2.5 Pro Prompts <=200k; >200k: $2.50 in, $0.25 cache, $15 out. $1.25 $0.125 $10

Rates in USD, per 1M tokens unless a row says otherwise. Paid tier, Standard. Free tier exists for most Flash models (not 3.1 Pro Preview). Batch/Flex 50% off. Gemini 3.6-3.8 Flash rates double on 1 Jan 2027. Context-cache storage billed separately per hour. Checked 16 Sep 2026 against the provider’s price page.

Use cases

Drafting emails in Gmail with AI assistance Analysing large codebases via the 1M context window Generating images and answering questions from uploaded photos

What you can produce with Google Gemini

  • Deep Research reports compiled from live web sources
  • Analysis of uploaded documents up to 1,500 pages, or code repositories up to 30,000 lines, on paid plans
  • Images generated and edited with Nano Banana, and videos made with Gemini Omni on paid plans
  • Drafts and summaries inside Gmail, Docs and Vids
  • Reusable skills that apply saved instructions automatically
  • Coding agents launched from the Gemini Mac app through Google Antigravity
  • Hands-free voice conversations with Gemini Live, including in Android Auto
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RECATOOLS Verdict

Gemini is the obvious assistant for people who live in Google's services: it reaches into Gmail, Drive and Docs, runs Deep Research and voice, and its paid plans bundle storage. Singapore pricing is reasonable at the low end, SGD 6.98 for Plus and SGD 28.99 for Pro, and Pro now includes Gemini 4 Argon, Google's newest frontier model.

Two caveats. The free tier has been trimmed to the Flash-Lite model, and Google keeps renaming models and reshuffling plans, so check what a tier includes at the point of purchase. Several agent features, including Spark and most connected apps, launch in the US first.

Desk research by RECATOOLS from public sources, written with AI assistance — not a hands-on test. How we review

What we found

Gemini is Google's consumer AI assistant and the name of the model family behind it. The app began as Bard, which Google opened as an early experiment in the US and UK on 21 March 2023; on 8 February 2024 Google renamed Bard to Gemini, which is why this page dates the product to 2023 although the Gemini brand came a year later. It now runs on the web, Android, iOS, Android Auto and native desktop apps for Mac (April 2026) and Windows (September 2026), and connects to Gmail, Drive and, in some regions, more than 40 third-party apps.

The models moved quickly this year. 3.5 Flash reached everyone in May and 3.6 Flash in July, and on 13 October 2026 Google began rolling out Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier model, to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. In the developer API, Argon is paid-only at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens until 30 November, doubling on 1 December. Gems are being folded into reusable skills, and Gemini Spark, an agent that works through files and Workspace tasks, is limited to Ultra subscribers on the Mac app.

Plans are sold as usage multiples rather than message counts, with limits that refresh every five hours up to a weekly cap. Singapore prices on Google's page today: a free tier that now lists only the Flash-Lite model; Google AI Plus at SGD 6.98 a month for twice the free allowance and the Flash model; Pro at SGD 28.99 for four times, with Argon and the Pro model; and Ultra at SGD 139.99 or SGD 289.98 for five or twenty times Pro. US prices are $4.99, $19.99, $99.99 and $199.99, with storage and YouTube benefits bundled.

The strongest case for Gemini is its reach into Google's own services. The weaker one is stability: models, names and tiers change every few months, and several agent and app features arrive in the US before Singapore and the rest of ASEAN.

Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.

Notable facts

  • Gemini 1.5 Pro has a 1-million-token context window — long enough to fit all of Shakespeare's works plus the entire Harry Potter series.
  • The name 'Gemini' refers to the twin stars Castor and Pollux, symbolising the model's ability to handle both language and vision simultaneously.
  • Google embedded Gemini Nano directly into the Pixel 8 chipset so it runs entirely offline without sending data to the cloud.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Gemini Pro is free at gemini.google.com. Gemini Advanced, which uses Ultra, costs $19.99/month via Google One.
Ultra is the most capable for complex tasks, Pro balances capability and speed for most users, and Nano runs on-device on supported Android phones.
Yes. Gemini is natively multimodal and can analyse images, videos, audio, and documents in addition to text.
Both are capable LLMs. Gemini integrates tightly with Google products and has a larger context window; ChatGPT has a larger plugin and GPT store ecosystem.
Yes. The Gemini API is available via Google AI Studio with a free tier and pay-as-you-go pricing for production use.

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