Comment by pentagrama

3 days ago

The legacy free edition includes the features of the 'Business Starter' plan, the most affordable option. In this table [1], you can find the features available for each plan.

Here are the details for the Business Starter plan specifically:

Gmail: Help me write, Side panel, Contextual smart replies (Coming soon).

Gemini app: Enterprise-grade security & privacy, Google Workspace extensions.

NotebookLM: Upload sources, create summaries and Audio Overviews, and Q&A.

I'm also milking Google with this.

[1] https://support.google.com/a/answer/15400543

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jkaplowitz  2 days ago

I am aware that some of this is coming to the Business Starter plan, but where do you see that the legacy free edition always gets the features which the Business Starter plan gets? And do you know the answer to the question of which Terms of Service will apply to legacy free edition Gemini features?

Interesting that the Business Starter plan isn't getting Gemini Advanced according to that table. That omission isn't clear at all from their Google Workspace blog post about the announcement: https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/empo...

  • pentagrama  2 days ago

    Yes, you’re right—there doesn’t seem to be any statement explicitly saying that the legacy free edition will always have the same features as the Business Starter plan, at least not that I could find.

    However, I noticed that on my legacy free edition, new features were integrated around the same time they were shipped to the Business Starter plan. For example, when the Gemini app was launched for Workspace, it was added to my panel: https://imgur.com/a/QvROTiD

    Interestingly, when I went to the admin panel to take the screenshot, I saw a banner with the OP announcement: https://imgur.com/a/CDgdrlB. It does say "en todas las ediciones de Workspace" (in all Workspace editions), but maybe not the one I currently have, haha (legacy free edition).