# Intro to Overleaf Commons

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## What is Overleaf Commons?

Overleaf Commons allows universities and organizations to provide access to Overleaf premium features across an entire campus or company, or to specific groups.

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An Overleaf Commons subscription includes a custom portal, automatic validation and upgrade of eligible users, and an administrator hub and metrics to allow institutions to monitor the usage of their Commons subscription.

Enrollment in an Overleaf Commons subscription happens when a user confirms their institutional affiliation and eligibility. For Commons subscriptions that use single sign-on enrollment, the eligibility of authorized users is checked using entitlement data that is sent to Overleaf when the user logs in with SSO. For domain-based enrollment, users are added to the subscription when they confirm an institutional email address that has an entitled institutional domain.

## **AI features for Commons subscribers**

Members of an Overleaf Commons subscription have access to AI features at the Basic allowance level—the same daily limit as the Free plan. The AI assistant is not included with Commons access.

Members who need a higher AI allowance or access to the AI assistant can subscribe to an individual paid plan separately.

### **Disabling AI for your institution**

If your institution has data governance or academic integrity policies that require AI features to be disabled, you can request this through [Overleaf support](https://www.overleaf.com/contact).

When AI features are disabled for your institution, this applies to all members of your Commons subscription regardless of which Overleaf projects they're working on and their entitlement. A member whose AI is disabled at institutional level cannot use AI tools in any project—including projects owned by Overleaf users outside your institution.

## Getting Overleaf Commons

Overleaf Commons is already available at [many leading institutions](https://www.overleaf.com/for/institutions-using-overleaf) and organizations.  If your organization doesn't have an Overleaf Commons subscription but would like one,[ please contact us](https://www.overleaf.com/for/contact-sales-universities).

If you have further technical questions that aren't answered on these pages, [please contact Overleaf Support.](https://www.overleaf.com/contact)


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