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No, even for personal use you have to pay now. I'm one of the people with a legacy GApps/GSuite account and I got the notice as well. While they initially said that GApps was a good usecase for families it seems they changed their minds about that a long time back and now they just assume everyone on GApps is using it commercially, there is no "personal" tier.

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I find myself in a similar boat. Have you decided on an alternative? I'm not likely to start paying for Google Workplace but am happy to pay for another service. Thankfully my needs are pretty simple, I only ever used GSuite for my own domains and they only have one user account each.

I'm just going to pay. I only had 7 accounts (some were full backups of old email accounts, eg: oldemail@gmail.com -> oldemail@mydomain.com, some where used for alert email sending). I can prune them down to just my main and switch email alerts over to SES, that way I'll just pay $6/mo which I'm fine with for now. I might investigate alternative providers at some point but $6/mo is hard to beat and I'm happy with gmail.

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