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iandanforth ◴[25 Jun 25 13:37 UTC] No.44377207[source]▶
I love how fragmented Google's Gemini offerings are. I'm a Pro subscriber, but I now learn I should be a "Gemini Code Assist Standard or Enterprise" user to get additional usage. I didn't even know that existed! As a run of the mill Google user I get a generous usage tier but paying them specifically for "Gemini" doesn't get me anything when it comes to "Gemini CLI". Delightful!
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GardenLetter27 ◴[25 Jun 25 14:29 UTC] No.44377759[source]▶
Google is fumbling the bag so badly with the pricing.

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the best model I've used (even better than o3 IMO) and yet there's no simple Claude/Cursor like subscription to just get full access.

Nevermind Enterprise users too, where OpenAI has it locked up.

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1. bachmeier ◴[25 Jun 25 15:08 UTC] No.44378228[source]▶
> Google is fumbling the bag so badly with the pricing.

In certain areas, perhaps, but Google Workspace at $14/month not only gives you Gemini Pro, but 2 TB of storage, full privacy, email with a custom domain, and whatever else. College students get the AI pro plan for free. I recently looked over all the options for folks like me and my family. Google is obviously the right choice, and it's not particularly close.

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2. weird-eye-issue ◴[25 Jun 25 15:33 UTC] No.44378485[source]▶
And yet there were still some AI features that were unavailable to workspace users for a few months and you had to use a personal account. I think it's mostly fixed now but that was quite annoying since it was their main AI product (Gemini Studio or whatever, I don't remember for sure)
3. Fluorescence ◴[25 Jun 25 16:17 UTC] No.44378992[source]▶
Only "NetworkLM" and "Chat with AI in the Gemini app" in the UK even with "Enterprise Plus". I assume that is not Pro.
4. safety1st ◴[25 Jun 25 16:46 UTC] No.44379329[source]▶
I know they raised the price on our Google Workspace Standard subscriptions but don't really know what we got for that aside from Gemini integration into Google Drive etc. Does this mean I can use Gemini CLI using my Workspace entitlement? Do I get Code Assist or anything like that? (But Code Assist seems to be free on a personal G account...?)

Google is fumbling with the marketing/communication - when I look at their stuff I am unclear on what is even available and what I already have, so I can't form an opinion about the price!

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5. thimabi ◴[25 Jun 25 17:24 UTC] No.44379767[source]▶
> Does this mean I can use Gemini CLI using my Workspace entitlement?

No, you cannot use neither Gemini CLI nor Code Assist via Workspace — at least not at the moment. However, if you upgrade your Workspace plan, you can use Gemini Advanced via the Web or app interfaces.

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6. pbowyer ◴[25 Jun 25 17:35 UTC] No.44379852{3}[source]▶
I'm so confused.

Workspace (standard?) customer for over a decade.

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7. thimabi ◴[25 Jun 25 17:45 UTC] No.44379964{4}[source]▶
Workspace users with the Business Standard plan have access to Gemini Advanced, which is Google’s AI offering via the Web interface and mobile apps. This does not include API usage, AI Studio, Gemini CLI, etc. — all of which are of course available, but must be paid separately or used in the free tier.

In the case of Gemini CLI, it seems Google does not even support Workspace accounts in the free tier. If you want to use Gemini CLI as a Workspace customer, you must pay separately for it via API billing (pay-as-you-go). Otherwise, the alternative is to login with a personal (non-Workspace) account and use the free tier.

8. kingsleyopara ◴[25 Jun 25 17:48 UTC] No.44379985[source]▶
Gemini 2.5 pro in workspace was restricted to 32k tokens [0] - do you know if this is still the case?

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleGeminiAI/comments/1jrynhk/war...

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9. jay_kyburz ◴[25 Jun 25 21:05 UTC] No.44381830[source]▶
I'm a workspace subscriber, I get 4-5 questions on Gemini Pro (via gemini.google.com ) before it tells me I'm out of quota and have to switch to flash.

(Update: Oh.. I'm only on business starter, I should be on business standard. need more business!)

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10. bachmeier ◴[26 Jun 25 01:31 UTC] No.44383444[source]▶
Yeah, that starter plan is pretty useless for AI features. I guess it still gives you privacy.
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11. safety1st ◴[26 Jun 25 04:52 UTC] No.44384281{3}[source]▶
Well, now I'm a mixture of disappointed and confused

I was wondering what Gemini Advanced is. I don't see any mention of a Gemini Advanced here, but there is a Gemini Pro and a Gemini Ultra: https://gemini.google/subscriptions/

I had gotten the impression that Workspace might entitle us to some API credits or something based on section 3A here where they describe how to authenticate with the API via your Workspace account https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/main/docs/c... . That document does explicitly mention "Gemini Code Assist for Workspace" but I think I saw another website from Google agreeing with you and saying you can't use it with a Workspace account currently.

Yeah, this is all a mess. Time to go back to bed for six months and just continue using whatever my corporate overlords have already handed to me

12. pjerem ◴[26 Jun 25 08:12 UTC] No.44385278{3}[source]▶
> I guess it still gives you privacy.

Absolutely no offense but why do you (and a lot of people here) believe Google paid products gives you any privacy ?

I’m pretty sure even if they wanted to respect privacy of a subset of their users, they must have so much legacy code and data everywhere that they couldn’t even do it if they wanted to. And I’m not sure they’d want it anyway.

13. thimabi ◴[26 Jun 25 11:46 UTC] No.44386444[source]▶
From what I can tell, that was a bug and it has been fixed. I regularly use data with much more than 32k tokens in Gemini with my Workspace account, and context window issues are not a thing anymore.

What does set Gemini via Workspace apart from other offerings like AI Studio is the nerfed output limit and safety filters. Also, I never got Gemini to ground replies in Google search, except when in Deep Research, or to execute code. Finally, Workspace users of Gemini either cannot keep their chat history, or have to keep the entire history for a predetermined period (deleting individual chats is not allowed).