Google Workspace offers subscription options for individuals, small businesses, large organizations, and schools. Compare editions in these categories:
- Business—Productivity suites for businesses with 1-300 users
- Education—Discounted suites for qualifying educational institutions
- Enterprise—Adds premium security and advanced controls for unlimited users
- Essentials—Productivity and collaboration tools without Gmail
To find out your edition, go to What's my subscription and payment plan?
Compare Business editions (1-300 users)
Use these tables to compare the following editions, available to customers with 1-300 users:
- Business Starter —Professional productivity suite with 30 GB pooled storage per user*
- Business Standard —Enhanced productivity suite with 2 TB pooled storage per user
- Business Plus —Advanced productivity suite with 5 TB pooled storage per user
* New Business Starter customers have pooled storage by default. Rollout to existing customers began in May 2023 and will continue over the coming months.
To learn about subscription plans tailored for your specific needs, contact sales .
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Service availability
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Chat and chat spaces
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Digital whiteboarding with Jamboard
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✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Drive storage and Docs editors
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✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Video conferencing with Meet
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✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Directory management
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✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Sites
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✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Tasks
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✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Notetaking with Keep
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✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Gmail and Calendar
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✔* | ✔* | ✔* |
Groups for Business
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Gemini Advanced **
(as a core service with enterprise-grade data protections, user license required). Learn more |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
✔* | ✔* | ||
Google Vault
for eDiscovery and information governance
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✔* |
* Requires verifying your domain.
** Requires a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on
.
Usage and support
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Business Starter | Business Standard | Business Plus | |
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Number of users
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1-300 | 1-300 | 1-300 |
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99.9% uptime guarantee
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User access options
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Access across devices (computers, phones, tablets)
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Offline access
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* Requires verifying your domain.
Migration products
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Migrate email
(< 100 users)
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Migrate email, calendars, contacts, files
(many tools)
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* Requires verifying your domain.
Reports and monitoring
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* Requires verifying your domain
Security and data management
Security policies and data protection
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Assured Controls
for managing compliance & security requirements (add-on)
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* Requires verifying your domain.** Requires a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on.
Security dashboards & investigation tools
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Security investigation tool Log event reporting with premium features:
Data regions
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(Includes data at rest, versions, and policy summaries)
(including for organizational units and groups)
(Includes data processing by region and service, and data at rest by service)
Log events of user and admin activity
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* Requires verifying your domain.
Endpoint management
Device security settings
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* Requires verifying your domain.
** Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
.
Device management
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* Requires verifying your domain.
** Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
.
Mobile app management
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* Requires verifying your domain.
** Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
.
Device details
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* Requires verifying your domain.
** Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
.
3rd-party app integration
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3 | Unlimited | Unlimited | |
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* Requires verifying your domain.
Gmail
Email addresses and mailing lists
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Your email address ( you
@ yourcompany
.com)
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Admin-controlled mailing lists
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User-controlled mailing lists
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✔* | ✔* | ✔* |
Personalized email campaigns with mail merge
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✔* | ✔* |
* Requires verifying your domain.
Email usage and limits
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3,000 (2,000 external, 500 external for trial accounts) *
* Requires verifying your domain.
Email security & compliance
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Junk email filtering and virus blocking
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* Requires verifying your domain.
Advanced email delivery options
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Outbound gateway
(for entire organization)
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Outbound relay server
(for alternative From: addresses)
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* Requires verifying your domain.
Drive and Docs editors
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Advanced Drive logs and reports
(Drive log events)
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Shared drives
membership, creation, and external moves
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Shared drives advanced sharing
, access, and storage limits
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* They can comment on and edit files that are directly shared with them from shared drives.
†
Requires a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on
.
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Only Google Slides, Forms, and Sites.
Google Meet
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Business Starter | Business Standard | Business Plus | |
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Maximum meeting length
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24 hours | 24 hours | 24 hours |
Maximum number of participants per meeting
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100 | 150 | 500 |
External participants
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Track attendance
(requires 2 or more attendees)
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* Powered by Google Voice
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** Requires a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on
.
† Dependent on Google Calendar limit of 200 invitees
Google Chat
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Business Starter | Business Standard | Business Plus | |
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Turn chat history on or off | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Set space history option for users | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Automatically accept chat invitations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
External chat for 1:1 and group direct messages | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Allow or restrict external chat | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Allow or restrict Chat apps | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Use discoverable spaces | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Turn external spaces on or off | ✔ | ✔ | |
Control file sharing in Chat | ✔ | ||
Automatically delete Chat messages for your organization | ✔ |
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