Is Google AI Plus at $7.99/month actually worth keeping?

Google AI Plus is a low-cost way to get access to gemini-3.1-flash in a chat subscription, and that matters if you want a simple Google-hosted interface instead of piecing together API access yourself. The price is not high enough to feel painful on its own. The problem is that cheap subscriptions are exactly the ones people forget to question. If this is one of several AI tools on your card, it can quietly become dead weight.

Here’s the non-obvious part: Google AI Plus is inexpensive, but it is still overpriced for medium usage if your real need is just model access. At 1,500 prompts per month, the API equivalent is about $2.25, versus $7.99 for the subscription. That gap adds up to roughly $69 per year for the convenience of the interface. So the decision is simple. Keep it if you genuinely use the product experience and want the easiest path to Gemini chat. Cancel it if you already pay for other general AI subscriptions and mostly care about output quality per dollar. Tools like StackTrim AI exist for exactly this kind of overlap check.