Fitbit Air gives Google AI Pro an unexpected upgrade

Fitbit Air comes with three months of Google Health Premium, but the more interesting detail sits elsewhere. Google Health Premium is now bundled with Google AI Pro and Ultra plans at no extra cost, which changes the maths for anyone already paying for Google’s AI tools.

The free app still does the basics

Google is splitting the new Health app into a Base experience and a Premium experience. Base is included in the Google Health app when paired with a watch or tracker. It covers activity tracking, sleep tracking, health metrics and wellness logging.

That means steps, calories, distance, cardio load, readiness, sleep score, sleep schedule, sleep duration, sleep stages, heart rate, HRV, breathing rate, SpO2 and health records all sit in the standard layer. Users also get logging for weight, nutrition, water intake, moods and cycles.

That is not a barebones app. For many users, it will probably cover enough. The real difference comes when Google starts adding coaching and interpretation on top of those numbers.

Premium is where the AI layer sits

Google Health Premium adds the more advanced layer. That includes Ask Coach, which lets users ask health questions around the clock and receive personalised answers and insights. It also includes weekly fitness plans that adapt around goals and daily life.

Sleep gets a deeper layer too. Premium adds personalised summaries with coaching insights, rather than only showing scores and stages. The same applies to broader health and fitness trends, where Google promises proactive insights and guidance across metrics.

Medical record summaries may become one of the more interesting parts. Google says Premium can summarise medical records and allow users to ask questions that feed into coach recommendations. That could make the app feel less like a fitness dashboard and more like a personal health hub, assuming the execution holds up.

Fitbit Air buyers get three months of Google Health Premium included. After that, the subscription costs $9.99 per month or $99 per year if taken on its own. That is the part many buyers will notice first, but it is not the only route into Premium.

AI Pro changes the equation

Google says Google Health Premium is now included at no extra cost with Google AI Pro and Ultra plans. That is the important bit. For $20 per month, AI Pro users now get access to Google’s AI tools and the premium health platform in the same subscription.

That makes AI Pro look more attractive than it did a year ago. It already brings higher limits across Gemini and other Google AI products, including Flow, Gemini Code Assist, CLI and Antigravity. It also includes 5TB of storage and Home Premium.

Fitbit Air benefits from the bundle

This helps Fitbit Air in a very practical way. The device has no screen, so its value depends heavily on the app experience. If a buyer already pays for Google AI Pro, Fitbit Air effectively becomes a $99 tracker with the Premium software already covered.

That is a cleaner pitch than asking someone to buy hardware and then add another separate subscription after three months. It also gives Google a different model from WHOOP, where the membership sits at the centre of the product. Google can sell cheap hardware, offer a trial and let AI Pro absorb the premium layer for people already inside its wider ecosystem.