Google has multiple subscription tiers to its Google One AI, which offers subscribers a host of A.I. features. Business owners looking for A.I. for teams should look into Google Workspace.
The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post
- Google AI Pro tier is a charm-priced $19.99 a month, whereas Google AI Ultra is a true step up in price to $249.99 a month, with a clean $125 lopped off for the first three months of use. (Prices listed here are as-of-this-writing prices.)
- Students get free access to Google AI Pro tier until finals season in 2026, which could be useful to know if you have any college-student interns on staff.
- Basically, what you get across both tiers is access to many of Google’s A.I. products, including video-creation tools and the cult-favorite NotebookLM, which can create podcasts summarizing information for users.
- The Pro AI Ultra upgrade is the access to the latest public-release A.I. from Google, with higher (or the highest, for some tools) limits for usage. Early access to certain A.I. tools, with Project Mariner (an agentic research prototype) being one example, is another advantage as it could allow users to get ahead of the competition with other A.I. tools.
- Ultimately, your needs will determine what plan you get. Business owners looking for A.I. for teams should consider Google Workspace, whereas solopreneurs or individual workers should look into Google One AI plans to get access to cutting-edge A.I. tools.
The Significance for Business Owners
As A.I. continues to progress, it is becoming the norm to use A.I. in some way shape or form within businesses.
What large A.I. developers like Google are doing right now is putting together package deals for people who are serious about incorporating A.I. into their daily lives–or their work weeks, at least.
It will more than likely be the case that A.I. productivity tools like NotebookLM, Veo, and whatever name Google ends up giving to its research tool Project Mariner, will become the new must-know tools, as Microsoft Office’s productivity apps became in the modern business world.
For all the flair of this new wave of A.I. tools, the reason for the coming must-know status of these tools is the same as that of Microsoft Office (or alternative productivity tools like Google Docs): it is quicker and more-efficient than the old ways of doing things.
Think of making a mistake in Microsoft Word as opposed to a typewritten page: backspace and correct is much quicker than white-out and retype.
NotebookLM as a For-Example Case
Maybe you have heard of NotebookLM before reading this blog.
If not, know that it is something like a research tool for quickly summarizing information. For instance, if an interesting research paper in your field was recently published but you do not have the time to read.
Instead of letting it pass you by, you could have NotebookLM take the info in that paper and summarize it in the form of a podcast (an Audio Overview) that you could listen to in the span of your commute to work.
This tool is an example of something that could give users a competitive advantage. The world was once a place where pretty much everyone who did not have the time to read those research papers simply skipped it, but now more people are able to use A.I. to quickly get key insights.
These Google One subscriptions offer users higher usage limits, so if you are interested in using this tool very frequently, that could be a motive for subscribing.
The Last (But Not Least) Key Takeaway from This Blog Post
Overall, if you are an individual who is particularly A.I.-forward or wants to jump into the deep end of frequently using A.I., then the package deals of A.I. here could be worth the monthly investment. The writer of this blog post would recommend starting with Google One AI Pro’s free trial and see whether it works for you, as opposed to diving headfirst into a pricier AI Ultra subscription.
Other Great GO AI Blog Posts
GO AI the blog offers a combination of information about, analysis of, and editorializing on A.I. technologies of interest to business owners, with especial focus on the impact this tech will have on commerce as a whole.
On a usual week, there are multiple GO AI blog posts going out. Here are some notable recent articles:
In addition to our GO AI blog, we also have a blog that offers important updates in the world of search engine optimization (SEO), with blog posts like “Google Ends Its Plan to End Third-Party Cookies”.
