AI
AI features run against your mailbox on every plan. Free spends 10 actions a day, Starter 50, Business 150, and Enterprise 300. With pay as you go on in Billing, every plan, Free included, keeps going past that at $0.25 per 100 extra actions, billed monthly and separately from the plan. An action is one thing you ask for: a draft, a rewrite, a translation, a search worded for you or one assistant turn. Mail is summarised and checked as it arrives, the sender card looks up an unfamiliar domain when you open its mail, and sending a message updates your writing-style profile; none of that counts against the allowance, and everything else waits for you to ask.
What to do
- The assistant, summaries, labeling and one-click replies work out of the box. There is nothing to connect and no balance to top up. Free simply stops at 10 actions for the day and starts again tomorrow.
- Web search is included too, as part of the draft or assistant turn that asked for it rather than as an action of its own.
An allowance this generous is affordable because the model behind it is a small one, and every prompt here is a short single-turn job. Requests are sent with a no-retention routing preference, which skips providers whose policy allows keeping prompts for training; if none is left for a model the request fails rather than going to one that would. The embeddings behind search by meaning go through the same routing and stay on one fixed model for everyone, because a search index cannot mix vectors from two embedding models, and searching by meaning does not count as an action. We never train on your mail. Summaries and your assistant conversation are stored against your mailbox so they are there when you come back.
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