Google Is Surprisingly Rolling Out Gemini 2.5 Pro (Exp) To Free Users

In a rather unexpected move, Google announced Saturday that it is rolling out the latest 2.5 Pro (experimental) model to all (free) Gemini app users.

Gemini 2.5 Pro was just announced on Tuesday as Google’s “most intelligent AI model” that integrates thinking capabilities rather than offering it as a separate variant. It is currently in the “experimental” phase, but has support for a number of features, including apps/Extensions, file uploads, and (as of today) Canvas.

At launch, it was only available for Gemini Advanced subscribers, with Google One AI Premium coming in at $19.99 per month (in the US).

On Saturday afternoon, Google announced that it has “decided to roll out Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental) to all Gemini users, beginning today.”

It’s already seeing wide availability on gemini.google.com, and coming soon to the Android and iOS apps. Both recently got better at remembering what model you selected.

Google says it wants “to get [its] most intelligent model into more people’s hands asap.” Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental) is currently at the top of the LMArena leaderboard, while leading on math and science benchmarks. Google is also working on improving coding performance.

Looking ahead, it’s not clear whether Google will make the stable version of 2.5 Pro free to all Gemini users, or whether today’s move is just for the testing phase. Before this, it seemed like 2.0 Flash Thinking and 2.0 Flash were going to be the free offerings.

That said, Google has been making more and more features available for all users in recent months, including Deep Research, Gems, Saved info, document upload/analysis, and generating images of people. The main feature for Advanced subscribers is a 1 million token context window, as well as higher usage limits.

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