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Google Gemini

Google's AI assistant, integrated with Search and Workspace.

Cost

Free to start, paid to go further

Free tier available; advanced models are behind a paid plan.

Open source

No

The code is private. You depend on the company that makes it.

Your data

Goes to their servers

Your files and text are sent to the company running the service.

Use it for this

Tasks that touch Google Docs, Sheets and Gmail, and questions where recent web results matter.

Do not use it for this

Assuming its citations are accurate. Verify links it gives you.

A moment where you would reach for it

Summarising a long email thread in Gmail before replying.

How hard is it to pick up?

Anyone can use this on day one.

Worth knowing before you use it

Activity may be reviewed by humans to improve the service unless disabled in settings.

Other things that do this job

No tool is best at everything. These solve a similar problem, with different trade-offs.

About this entry

Checked on 1 Sept 2026. Prices and free limits change without warning, and often quietly. Treat everything above as a starting point and confirm on the official site before you rely on it.

Nothing here is sponsored. A tool appears because it solves a real problem, not because someone paid for it to be listed.