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I’m definitely not a fan of all the AI-powered plans and tiers that Google offers across Google One and Workspace. There are so many variations, each with its own nuances, that it’s nothing but confusing. It’s no less than a nightmare to make sense of all the usage differences and figure out which one actually meets your needs.
Even though it’s yet another AI plan, the Google One AI Plus tier available in India and other countries earns brownie points in one key area: price. It makes perfect sense for regular users who don’t need 2 TB of storage or professional-grade access to every AI tool Google offers. It costs less than a quarter of the Google AI Pro plan and gives you access to many Gemini features, including Gemini integration within Workspace apps like Gmail and Docs.
I wanted something exactly like this, and Google delivered it with the AI Plus plan. I’ve now found I can’t live without Google’s paid AI features, and it’s all thanks to one specific feature: Gemini in Gmail.
What would make you pay for Google's AI subscription? 12 votes Inbox and email management 25 % Writing and editing help 17 % Search and summaries across apps 17 % Nothing — I avoid AI subscriptions 42 %
Gemini does wonders in Gmail
As a writer, I would take offense if AI were to write on my behalf. But that doesn’t mean I don’t want AI to be part of my writing process. I’m perfectly happy using it to review an email draft before hitting send, but the initial writing — the language, words, and tone — has to be mine. Those words should reflect my personality, not something mass-scrapped from the internet.
Once I’ve written an email, I quickly ask Gemini to give it a pass, just to make sure I don’t embarrass myself later with some idiotic grammatical gaffe. If I were to use ChatGPT for this instead, I’d have to copy the email text, paste it into ChatGPT, ask it to proofread, then copy it back into Gmail — adding dozens of unnecessary steps to a process that now takes just a couple of clicks with Gemini baked directly into Gmail.
When AI is precisely where you need it (and when), it becomes a passive assistant you end up using more often than you initially intended.
Because Gemini lives inside Gmail, it understands my inbox, so I can query it based on current or older email threads in simple language.
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