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	Google Colab	Google AI Studio	GCP Vertex AI	Gemini Enterprise
Tool Type	Notebook	IDE (Integrated Development Environment)	MLOps	Agentic Workflow Studio
Plans & Upgrades	Pro Pro+ Enterprise	Free Paid	Paid	Standard Plus
Audience	Individual Reasearchers for Pro/Pro+ Teams and Data Scientists for Enterprise	Individual Developers Researchers	Developers ML Engineers Data Scientists	Skilled Enterprise Operations
Use Case	Data Analysis Machine Learning research Fine-tuning models	Prototyping full web applications Testing Prompts Generating Gemini API Keys	Building Custom Chatbots Retrival Augmented Generation systems (RAG) Fine-tuning models	Securely using Gemini for Internal Research Workflow automation
Key Notes	Google Drive storage for Pro and Pro+ GCP storage for Enterprise Background running for Pro+ and Enterprise Monthly subscription for Pro and Pro+ Pay-as-you-go for Enterprise Operates on managed shared resources	Export of code snippets Improved context with Google AI Pro and Ultra Plans* Requires project setup (Paid) for API Key Generation	Model Garden Vertex AI Agent Builder AutoML	Permission-aware enterprise-wide search System integration with external APIs Support for complex agentic builds and deployments
Procurement	ServiceNow form submitted to Research and Computing (R&C) Burwood Quote Purchase Order (PO) in Workday User notifies R&C R&C creates Colab Project Information aggregated in Burwood billing tool	If API Key generation is required ServiceNow form submitted to Research and Computing (R&C) Burwood Quote Purchase Order (PO) in Workday User notifies R&C R&C creates Project Information aggregated in Burwood billing tool	ServiceNow form submitted to Research and Computing (R&C) Burwood Quote Purchase Order (PO) in Workday User notifies R&C R&C creates GCP Project Information aggregated in Burwood billing tool	ServiceNow form submitted to Research and Computing (R&C) Burwood Quote Purchase Order (PO) in Workday User notifies R&C R&C creates Gemini Enterprise Project Information aggregated in Burwood billing tool
Timeline	Timeline: 5 to 10 days (depends on quote and business office fulfillment)	Timeline: 5 to 10 days (depends on quote and business office fulfillment)	Timeline: 5 to 10 days (depends on quote and business office fulfillment)	Timeline: 5 to 10 days (depends on quote and business office fulfillment)
ServiceNow Request	Google Colab Request Form	API Key Project Request Form	GCP Request Form	Gemini Enterprise Request Form

Last Updated March 2026

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