Gemini Omni now makes 15-second videos, and Google Vids gives you three a month free

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, the video model Google released November 5, generates clips of up to 15 seconds, up from 10. In the Gemini app, 15-second videos are rolling out only to Google AI Ultra subscribers, the most expensive tier. The cheaper way in is Google Vids, the company's browser-based video editor, where anyone with a Google account can make up to three 15-second videos a month at no cost, Google says.

Google hasn't said what AI Plus and AI Pro subscribers get in the Gemini app.

What's better in version 1.2

Omni turns a text prompt, reference images or short clips into video with sound, then lets you revise the result by chatting with it. Omni 1.1 brought that conversational editing in August, capped at 10 seconds. Version 1.2 lets you pick any length from 3 to 15 seconds in one-second steps and edit the full clip, so you can swap the product, the background, the lighting or the aspect ratio without starting over, according to Google's developer blog.

Google also claims the model sticks more closely to references. Give it a face, a piece of clothing or a package, and it should keep the features, the label text and the brand colors as the camera moves. Dialogue gets clearer lip-sync and better separation between multiple speakers. Those are Google's own claims, and the company admits Omni still struggles with fast sports action, abrupt script changes and complex physics.

How to use the free Vids allowance

Go to vids.new on a computer, sign in with your Google account and pick the option to create AI videos from the creation menu. That's the route Google laid out in September, when it opened the previous model to free accounts. Its examples for the new clips include a product promo shot in one continuous take and a video built from your own reference images.

Google's Vids help page, which carries no update date, still lists a free allowance of 60 seconds of AI clips a month for personal accounts. Google hasn't explained how that squares with the new limit. Sixty seconds would fit four 15-second clips, but the announcement says three, so plan on three. Everything Vids generates carries SynthID, an invisible watermark that lets Google later identify the video as AI-made.

Where it works, and in which language

Neither announcement names countries. The Vids help page says its AI features work wherever Google Workspace accounts are available. It also warns that many of those features are English-only for now and doesn't list the languages video clip generation accepts, so English prompts are the safe bet. Personal accounts may also face some restrictions on AI video editing, the page adds, without saying which ones.

Paid tiers and API pricing

Paying doesn't always buy more. The same help page gives AI Plus the same 60 seconds a month as a free account, AI Pro 500 and AI Ultra 2,500 or 10,000, depending on the plan level.

Developers who call the model from their own apps through the pay-as-you-go API pay $0.07 per second of 720p video, 30% less than Omni 1.1. A 15-second clip therefore costs $1.05, about what a 10-second clip cost on the previous version at $0.10 per second.