Introducing Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ for Google Workspace
What’s changing
Currently, Google Workspace admins can turn Colab on for their users, allowing them to access the free version of Colab. Beginning today, we’re pleased to announce the Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ standalone subscriptions for Google Workspace customers:
- Colab Pro offers 100 compute units that grant access to additional powerful GPUs, memory, features, and productivity enhancements enabled with AI assistance.
- Colab Pro+ gives you all the benefits of Colab Pro like productivity enhancements enabled with AI assistance, plus an additional 400 compute units for a total of 500 per month that grant access to additional powerful GPUs, along with background execution for our longest-running sessions.
Who’s impacted
Why it’s important
- Exploratory data analysis
- Developing with the Gemini API
- Machine learning model development
- Natural language processing such as text classification and sentiment analysis
- Image processing such as object detection and image classification.
Getting started
- Admins:
- Access to the Admin console is required to initiate purchase. To purchase Workspace Colab Pro or Colab Pro+, go to Billing > Get more services > More products. Visit the Help Center to learn more about how to assign licenses to users after purchase, as well as available Google Workspace subscriptions.
- For Google Workspace for Education K-12 customers: The access control for Colab is OFF by default and requires Admins to enable this control if they want users in their domain to access Google Colab. Before turning access to Colab ON, Admins are required to obtain parental consent for <18 users because Colab is included as an Additional Service. Consent can be requested with this notice template.
- End users:
- Colab is OFF by default and can be enabled by your Admin.
- Note that if you have purchased Colab's “Pay As You Go” offering for yourself, you can continue using it in addition with Colab Pro and Pro+.
Rollout pace
- Gradually rolling out over the coming months to all customers
Availability
- Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ are standalone subscriptions available to all Google Workspace customers with a verified domain.
Resources
- Google Workspace Admin Help: Google Workspace add-ons
- Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn Google Colab on or off for users
- Google Workspace Admin Help: Assign Colab licenses to users
- Google Workspace Admin Help: Notice template for schools when gathering parent or guardian consent
- Google Workspace Admin Help: Choose your Google Workspace edition
- Google Workspace Admin Help: Verify your domain for Google Workspace