Where Veo 3.1 lives
At Google, the Veo 3.1 video model is available in three places:
- Flow is Google’s video creation service. The main route for regular users.
- The Gemini app, with limited capabilities.
- The Gemini API for developers, paid per second of video.
Access to Flow comes with a Google AI subscription. That is what you have to pay for.
Google AI plans
| Plan | Price per month | What it gives for video |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 0 | daily Flow credits that do not accumulate |
| Google AI Pro | 19.99 $ | 1000 Flow credits per month |
| Google AI Ultra | from 99.99 $ | more credits and a lower price on Veo modes |
| Google AI Ultra, top tier | 199.99 $ | maximum limits |
As of autumn 2026, some of the credit figures are published by third-party sites rather than Google. Check the current terms in the Flow help. This is not a public offer.
Two obstacles for Russia
1. Region. Russia is not on the list of countries where Flow officially works. The restriction often triggers not by IP but by the country of the Google payments profile, so a VPN alone is not enough.
2. Payment. Google has not accepted Russian bank cards since 2022. Subscriptions through Google Play are blocked for Russian users too.
Method 1. A foreign card and payments profile
You need a foreign bank card in your name and a Google payments profile in that card’s country.
Pros: an official subscription on your account, full access to Flow.
Cons: the card has to be issued and topped up. You cannot change the country of a Google payments profile at any moment, and frequent country switches trigger checks.
Method 2. An intermediary
An intermediary sets up the subscription for rubles. There are two schemes: payment on your account or a separate account with a subscription.
Risks:
- if you give access to your main Google account, the intermediary gets access to your mail, files and everything else;
- Google may restrict an account with a suspicious change of country or payments profile;
- there are no guarantees from Google, and a refund depends only on the intermediary.
Tip: do not use your main Google account for this. Create a separate one.
The general logic of choosing an intermediary and calculating the overpayment is in the article on how to pay for AI services from Russia.
Method 3. Veo 3.1 through a Russian aggregator
Russian aggregators connect Veo 3.1 through Google’s official API. The same model does the generation, so the clip quality is the same.
Pros: rubles with a Russian card, no VPN, no payments profile in another country, no risk to your main Google account. You can compare Veo with Seedance and Kling in one window.
Cons: you will not have Flow’s tools (the editing timeline, scenes, extending clips in Google’s interface).
What the model itself can do and how Veo 3.1, Fast and Lite differ: Veo 3.1 review.
Which method to choose
- You need Flow with all its tools and work in it constantly → a foreign card and a separate account.
- You want to try Flow once → an intermediary, but on a separate account.
- You need the Veo model itself without Flow’s tools → an aggregator with payment in rubles.
In short
At Google, Veo 3.1 is sold through the Google AI subscription and works in Flow. From Russia two things get in the way: Flow is officially unavailable, and Google does not accept Russian cards. The working options are a foreign card with a payments profile in another country, an intermediary on a separate account, or a Russian aggregator where Veo is available for rubles without a subscription.
