Google’s Veo 3 AI videos are identical to real life, but costs $250 per month or more

Google AI Ultra Veo 3 Street Video
Google AI Ultra Veo 3 Street Video

Google unveiled its top of the line AI video generator called Veo 3 at I/O 2025, which is creating a lot of buzz in the AI community and amongst video creators. The videos generated via Flow tool, which uses Veo 3, are indistinguishable to real life. While Veo 3 is targeted towards film making, users have created realistic looking videos including dialogues and audio.

As compared to Veo 2, video quality of Veo 3 is up significantly, and it can now add dialogue between characters, sound effects and background noise as well!

Checkout the following video of a sailor delivering a dialogue and some background noise:

If you think this is mid, checkout this street interview created with a simple prompt. While the conversation may not be much intriguing, the details in the video are stunning.

To make it further interesting, filmmakers have stepped in and created realistic looking movie scenes. Checkout the movie scene from filmmaker Dave Clark — Created with Google Flow. Visuals, Sound Design, and Voice were prompted using Veo 3 text-to-video.

If you are not impressed yet, here is a full 4-minute movie created with Google’s AI:

Here’s a full on pharmaceutical commercial which would cost $500k to shoot. PJ Ace made this for $500 in Veo 3 credits in less than a day.

Finally, Veo 3 generating Fortnite gameplay:

What is Google Flow?

Google Flow is an AI-powered filmmaking tool that promises to democratize video creation and unlock new possibilities for storytellers worldwide. It is built on Google’s most advanced AI models including Veo 3, Imagen, and Gemini.

Flow AI Video Tool Features

Flow stands apart in the crowded AI video generation space by being specifically engineered for Google’s cutting-edge technology stack. Unlike generic AI video tools, Flow leverages Veo, Google’s state-of-the-art generative video model, which excels in prompt adherence and produces stunning cinematic outputs with exceptional physics and realism.

Google says, Veo 3’s quality is up from Veo 2, and now you can add dialogue between characters, sound effects and background noise.

However, it comes with a big price tag. The monthly subscription for Veo 3 in the Gemini App is $249.99, included in the Google AI Ultra plan, available in the U.S. as of May 20, 2025. New subscribers may get 50% off for the first three months, reducing it to $124.99/month during that period.

Google AI Ultra Plan

  • $249.99/mo $124.99/mo for 3 months
  • Gemini app: Highest limits and exclusive access to 2.5 Pro Deep Think (our most advanced reasoning model — coming soon) and Veo 3 (our latest video generation model)
  • Flow: Highest limits in our Al filmmaking tool with access to Veo 3 and premium features like ingredients to video
  • Whisk: Highest limits for image-to-video creation with Veo 2
  • NotebookLM: Highest limits and best model capabilities (coming soon)
  • Gemini in Gmail, Docs, and more: Highest limits to Gemini directly in Google apps
  • Project Mariner (early access): Streamline tasks with an agentic research prototype
  • YouTube Premium individual plan: YouTube ad-free, offline, and in the background
  • Storage: 30 TB of total storage for Photos, Drive, and Gmail

Download Latest Gemini Update

Gemini 1.0.751104895 app update adds new AI models including Gemini 2.5 Pro, (experimental) Deep Research, Flow, Veo 3, and 2.5 Flash for stable.

Download Gemini from App Store

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