Given you get YouTube premium, file/photo storage, and $10 a month back in GCP credit which you can use on more tokens (including carbon). It already feels like great value to me, that said how much you get out of it will depend how deep you're in Google's ecosystem.

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rafaelmn 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

YouTube Premium is only personal so it's useless for me I'm already paying for family plan, and what do I need 20TB of cloud storage for to update to 100$ plan - basically it's a useless bundle for me not a value proposition beyond the 20$ with their usage limits I saw.

	▲	mark_l_watson 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Same for me. I find myself using Google’s $20/month plan, plus running really good local models with occasional use of Deepseek Harness with their flash model, occasionally a $6/month Alibaba subscription for their strong qwen-3.8-max model, and about every third month getting a Anthropic subscription if I need more access to Opus. This is a lot of purchasing complexity for an old retired guy like myself! I wish Google had finer grained $30/month and $40/month subs: then I would probably just make my life easier by only using local models and Google (their sub also provides some Opus, but the Anthropic subscription is better if all you care about is Opus or Fable.)

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judge2020 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Unfortunately it's YouTube Premium Lite which doesn't include YouTube Music :/

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jack_pp 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What subscription are you talking about and is this US only? My Google one sub doesn't say anything about YouTube premium and gcp

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jack_pp 16 hours ago | parent [-]

nevermind, found em but apparently it's youtube premium "lite"

	▲	saturdaysaint 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I find Lite to be perfect. It only adds ads to copyrighted music videos and doesn’t include YouTube Music, otherwise it’s the same as YouTube Premium. For $100/yr with lots of cloud storage and Gemini access, it’s one of the best value subscriptions out there in my book.