Google Vids Now Generates AI Video for Free. The Limit Is Six Clips a Month.

Google has put its newest video model in front of anyone with a Google account. Most headlines say Google made HD AI video free. That's accurate, but the free allowance is small, and the detail that decides whether it's useful to you is in Google's help pages rather than the announcement.

What launched

• Model: Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, which Google says improves video extension with better character and audio consistency.
• Where: Google Vids, Google's browser-based video editor, at vids.new on desktop, under "Create AI videos."
• New controls: extend a scene while keeping lighting, characters, and setting consistent; set an exact clip length to match a script or voiceover; generate new clips in 1080p or upscale existing AI clips to 1080p.
• Who: personal Google accounts, Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, and most Workspace Business, Enterprise, Education Plus, and nonprofit editions. Workspace rollout started September 23, with features visible within one to three days.
• Transparency: every clip includes an invisible SynthID watermark that Google's detector can read.

What the free tier actually includes

One early test is worth knowing about: Decrypt reported that in its hands-on it could only generate 720p clips, even though Google advertises 1080p generation and upscaling. That may reflect a staged rollout, so check the resolution setting before building a project around it.

Context: where this sits in the video market

Gemini Omni first launched in May 2026 as a paid feature for Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers, with free access limited to YouTube Shorts and YouTube Create, according to Decrypt. Vids is its broadest release so far. It arrives as OpenAI has stepped back from consumer video - the Sora app and website closed in April 2026 - and as Google has cut its Veo 3.1 Lite API price to $0.05 per second for developers.

What this means if you're choosing an AI video tool

For occasional clips - a product teaser, an event announcement, a slide in a presentation - six free generations a month inside an editor you may already use is a real option, and the exact-duration control solves a common annoyance of fitting AI clips to a voiceover. For anyone producing video every week, the free tier is a trial, not a workflow; the comparison that matters is between Google's paid AI plans and dedicated video tools on cost per clip. When Google's promised text-to-speech arrives, Vids will cover script, footage, and narration in one place, which few free tools do.