There’s actually no such thing as a paid gmail account separate from a g suite account- there is only gmail.com (consumer) and @domain (paid g suite/workspace).

There’s actually no such thing as a paid gmail account separate from a g suite account- there is only gmail.com (consumer) and @domain (paid g suite/workspace). But it may be possible that you or someone else created a Google account for admin@example.com, and then separately provisioned a g suite account for the same address with a different password. This is not at all uncommon, as lots of people sign up for a Google account with their work email address for use with search and YouTube and so on, and then later their employer switches to Workspace for email and suddenly there’s all these conflicts. There is a process for merging and claiming these, but I don’t remember how it works off the top of my head. But to answer your implied question - there are two accounts, but only one mailbox. If you chose to log in to the Google account, you would not have access to gmail. (Source: work on workspace@google. Obviously only my own opinion)