Google's assistant, tied into Workspace and the Gemini API. That connection changes who does the evaluating: it tends to arrive as a question about an existing Google contract rather than as a new subscription somebody expenses.
Establish which bill it lands on before comparing anything
A separate subscription, a line on a Workspace plan, and API usage billed by consumption are three different purchases. They are hard to compare with each other and harder to compare with a flat monthly seat somewhere else. The two figures at the top of this profile answer only the first of the three, and they come from the plans page Google runs for the consumer product.
Read the plan names on that page before reading the prices, because they are not Gemini plans. They are Google AI plans, and Gemini access is what they carry. The cheapest paid one is at the top of this profile and two more sit above it. What each paid card leads with is a usage multiple: how many times more of it you get than a cheaper tier.
The free plan is the one worth naming precisely. It costs nothing, and it is tied to a Google Account rather than to a trial window, so there is no date on which it stops. What the page does not print is an allowance for it, so how far it goes is not something this profile can tell you, and our methodology explains why that stays missing rather than becoming an estimate.
ChatGPT and Claude are the usual comparisons, and the category hub lists all three.