{
  "id": 2096503,
  "title": "Google is giving 1-year Gemini AI plans free for students: What you need to know",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/google-is-giving-1-year-gemini-ai-plans-free-for-students-what-you",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-20T07:53:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Indian Express",
    "slug": "the-indian-express",
    "url": "https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/artificial-intelligence/google-is-giving-1-year-gemini-ai-plans-free-for-students-10841466/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Google has launched a new program offering free one-year subscriptions to its Gemini AI plan for eligible college students worldwide. The student hub, launched alongside the announcement, provides tools to help students stay organized and make the most of Gemini’s AI capabilities. For US students, the offer includes a free Google AI Pro subscription, valued at $19.99 per month, granting 4x higher usage limits, access to Gemini Spark, integration with Gmail and Google Docs, and 5 TB of storage. International students can avail themselves of Google AI Plus, which allows 2x higher usage limits and 400GB of storage, along with access to the Gemini app, Gmail integration, Google Flow, and Gemini Notebook. In India, students can get Google AI Plus for free, typically priced at Rs 399 per month. The program also includes a YouTube Premium subscription at up to 70 percent off, as part of the Google AI Pro bundle. Google’s aim is to provide a more interactive and organized learning experience, with features like study notebooks, real-time knowledge gap identification, progress tracking, and interactive visualisations.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}