Gemini AI Transforms Google Workspace: What the 2025 Pricing Model Means for You
It’s written in the stars—get ready to embrace Gemini AI in your Google Workspace! Google announced changes to its Workspace apps, such as Gmail and Google Docs, to include new AI features designed to help users improve their productivity and innovation. Along with the new AI features, Google has introduced changes to the Workspace pricing model, with a subscription rate increase starting on March 17, 2025. What does this mean for your business? Keep reading to explore everything you need to know about Google Workspace’s latest updates and Gemini AI.
What is Google Gemini used for?
Gemini AI is Google’s generative artificial intelligence chatbot, developed as a direct response to ChatGPT. Gemini AI is designed to be your personal assistant in the Workspace suite, helping you save time, streamline your workflow, and unlock new levels of creativity.
Here’s where you can find Gemini AI and its capabilities:
- Gmail: Quickly summarize long emails, get contextual reply suggestions, generate full drafts, and ask questions about your inbox.
- Docs: Generate different creative text formats, translate languages, summarize and improve writing, and brainstorm ideas.
- Slides: Create unique images from text prompts, get topic and content suggestions, and generate presentation outlines and scripts.
- Sheets: Analyze and organize data, identify trends, auto-generate formulas, and create charts.
- Meet: Generate meeting summaries with action items, take notes, and provide real-time assistance.
- Drive: Use natural language to search for files, get document summaries, and organize your Drive.
- Google Chat: Instantly summarize conversations and catch up on key information and action items.
- Calendar: Schedule meetings effortlessly with smart suggestions, let clients book appointments themselves, and send automated reminders.
- Google Vids (YouTube for business): Host live streams, manage video content, track performance, and collaborate with your team.
- eSignature: Request and add legally binding signatures to documents directly within Google Workspace.
- Email campaign: Create and send professional email campaigns with customizable templates, targeted audiences, and performance tracking.
In addition to these app-specific capabilities, Gemini also offers:
- Side Panel: Access Gemini across Workspace apps for summarizing, analyzing, and generating content based on your current context.
- NotebookLM Plus: Create shared notebooks for team collaboration and knowledge sharing.
How much does Google Gemini for Workspace cost?
Gemini AI is now included with the standard Google Workspace subscription. As a result, the cost of the Google Workspace Business Standard plan will increase by $2.00 USD, bringing the price to $14.00 USD per user, per month for customers on an Annual/Fixed-Term Plan (or $16.80 if you have a monthly Flexible Plan).
Pricing for Annual/Fixed-Term Plans in Canada are:
- Business Starter: $9.20 CAD per user
- Business Standard: $18.40 CAD per user
- Business Plus: $28.70 CAD per user
Pricing for Flexible Monthly Plans in Canada are:
- Business Starter: $11.00 CAD per user
- Business Standard: $22.00 CAD per user
- Business Plus: $34.40 CAD per user
No action is required from users. Google Gemini AI features will automatically roll-out to your Google Workspace, and subscription prices will be updated automatically beginning on March 17, 2025.
Previously, customers who wanted to use Gemini AI with Workspace paid an additional $20 USD per user per month, on top of the $12 USD for the Workspace Business Standard plan. Customers who purchased the add-on will continue to have access to the features, but they will no longer be charged the add-on fee starting January 31. Instead, they will be transitioned to the new subscription pricing model.
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