Compare Google Workspace editions

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

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Compare Education editions

K–12 and higher-education institutions may qualify for our Education editions, which provide a suite of productivity tools tailored for teaching and learning. Use these tables to compare the following editions, available to qualified education institutions:

Education Fundamentals—Access core and additional Google services for qualifying schools and universities. Add-on features available with the Teaching and Learning Upgrade and Endpoint Education Upgrade
Education Standard—Same features as in Education Fundamentals with premium security and IT features. Add-on features available with the Teaching and Learning Upgrade
Teaching and Learning Upgrade—Premium teaching and learning features that can be added to Education Fundamentals or Education Standard.
Education Plus—Includes all the features in Education Standard and the Teaching and Learning Upgrade.
Endpoint Education Upgrade—Adds advanced device management features to your Education Fundamentals edition. Learn more

Suite wide	Service specific
Service availability Usage and support User access options Security and data management Migration products Reports and log events Endpoint management 3rd-party app integration	Gmail Drive and Docs editors Groups / Groups for Business Google Meet Google Chat Calendar Classroom and Assignments

Suite wide

Service specific

Service availability

Usage and support

User access options

Security and data management

Migration products

Reports and log events

Endpoint management

3rd-party app integration

Gmail

Drive and Docs editors

Groups / Groups for Business

Google Meet

Google Chat

Calendar

Classroom and Assignments

Service availability

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	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Teaching and Learning Upgrade	Education Plus
Gmail and Calendar	✔	✔	✔	✔
Groups for Business	✔	✔	✔	✔
Chat and chat rooms	✔	✔	✔	✔
Digital whiteboarding with Jamboard	✔	✔	✔	✔
Storage and collaboration: Drive, Docs editors	✔	✔	✔	✔
Sites	✔	✔	✔	✔
Tasks	✔	✔	✔	✔
Notetaking with Keep	✔	✔	✔	✔
Video conferencing with Meet	✔	✔	✔	✔
Directory management	✔	✔	✔	✔
Google Vault for eDiscovery and information governance	✔	✔	✔	✔
Additional Google services	✔	✔	✔	✔
Gemini ( gemini.google.com ) (as an additional Google service, no user licenses required). Learn more	✔	✔	✔	✔
Gemini ( gemini.google.com ) * (as a core service with enterprise-grade data protections, user licenses required). Learn more	✔	✔	✔	✔
Gemini for Google Workspace (add-on)	✔	✔	✔	✔
AppSheet Core		✔		✔
Google Cloud Search for internal search and assist (across Google and third-party services)				✔**
Integrate third-party repositories in Cloud Search				✔**
Index third-party data using Cloud Search				✔**

* Requires a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on .** For third-party services your organization must have at least 500 user licenses and a Google Cloud Search certified partner.

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Usage and support

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★ Marks where the Teaching and Learning Upgrade adds value to Education Fundamentals or Standard edition

Education Fundamentals

Education Standard

Teaching and Learning Upgrade

Education Plus

Cost

Free*

Fee per user

Allowed number of users

Any number

99.9% uptime guarantee

✔

Standard Support

✔

✔‡

Email, document, photo storage

100 TB pooled storage

Additional pooled cloud storage

100 GB per user ★

20 GB per user ‡

* For qualified educational institutions
‡ Education Plus customers can also purchase Workspace Additional Storage , which adds 10 TB to pooled storage per subscription.

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User access options

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	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Teaching and Learning Upgrade	Education Plus
Supported browsers	✔	✔	✔	✔
Access across devices (computers, phones, tablets)	✔	✔	✔	✔
Offline access	✔	✔	✔	✔
Microsoft Outlook	✔	✔	✔	✔
IMAP and POP mail clients	✔	✔	✔	✔

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Security and data management

Security and data protection

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	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Teaching and Learning Upgrade	Education Plus
2-Step Verification	✔	✔	✔	✔
Security keys for 2-Step Verification	✔	✔	✔	✔
Enforced SSL connections	✔	✔	✔	✔
Alert center: Notifications of potential security issues	✔	✔	✔	✔
Collaboration with trusted external domains	✔	✔	✔	✔
Password monitoring and strength control	✔	✔	✔	✔
Data loss prevention (DLP)	✔	✔	✔	✔
Set session length for Google Cloud services	✔	✔	✔	✔
Set session length for Google services	✔	✔	✔	✔
Generative AI security protections *	✔	✔		✔
Advanced data exports		✔	✔	✔
Security center: Security dashboard		✔		✔
Security center: Security investigation tool		✔		✔
Security center: Security health page		✔		✔
Control access based on user and device context		✔		✔
Client-side encryption		✔		✔

Requires a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on.

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Data regions

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Education Fundamentals

Education Standard

Teaching and Learning Upgrade

Education Plus

Fundamental data regions

Set a data region policy for everyone in your organization

✔

Enterprise data regions

Set policies for organizational units or groups

✔

View data regions move progress

✔

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Migration products

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Migrate data with Google Workspace Migrate		✔		✔

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Reports and log events

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★ Marks where the Teaching and Learning Upgrade adds value to Education Fundamentals or Standard edition

	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Teaching and Learning Upgrade	Education Plus
Usage trends of apps and users	✔	✔	✔	✔
Log events of user and admin activity	✔	✔	✔	✔
Advanced Drive logs and reports	✔	✔	✔	✔
Export reports to BigQuery		✔		✔
Google Meet attendance reports			✔ ★	✔
Access Transparency logs of admin activity		✔		✔

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Endpoint management

Device security settings

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Education Fundamentals**

Education Standard

Teaching and Learning Upgrade

Education Plus

Fundamental endpoint management

Basic passcode enforcement (mobile)

✔

Google Credential Provider for Windows (standalone)

✔

Network management
(ChromeOS, meeting room hardware)

✔

Advanced endpoint management*

Strong passcode enforcement

✔

Network management (mobile)

✔

Mobile device security policies

✔

Android work profiles

✔

Enterprise endpoint management*

iOS data protection

✔

Mobile device certificates

✔

Context-Aware Access

✔

* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
** Add Endpoint Education Upgrade to Education Fundamentals to get all endpoint management features

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Device management

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Education Fundamentals**

Education Standard

Teaching and Learning Upgrade

Education Plus

Fundamental endpoint management

Basic mobile device management

✔

Fundamental management for computers

✔

Endpoint verification

✔

Company-owned device inventory (endpoints)

✔

Remote account sign-out

✔

Remote account wipe (mobile)

✔

Block devices

✔

Drive for desktop

✔

Advanced endpoint management*

Advanced mobile management

✔

Zero-touch enrollment for Android devices

✔

Admin approval of devices

✔

Remote device wipe ‡

✔

Windows device management

✔

Enterprise endpoint management*

Company-owned device inventory (Android)

✔

Company-owned device inventory (iOS)

✔

Mobile device management rules

✔

BeyondCorp Alliance partner integrations

✔

* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
** Add Endpoint Education Upgrade to Education Fundamentals to get all endpoint management features
‡ Remote device wipe of Windows 10 devices also requires Windows device management

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Mobile app management

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Education Fundamentals**

Education Standard

Teaching and Learning Upgrade

Education Plus

Fundamental endpoint management

Public and private app management (Android)

✔

Advanced endpoint management*

Public app management (iOS)

✔

Android app runtime permissions

✔

Selectively distribute mobile apps to users

✔

Publish private Android web apps

✔

Managed Android app settings configurations

✔

Enterprise endpoint management*

Private iOS app management

✔

* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
** Add Endpoint Education Upgrade to Education Fundamentals to get all endpoint management features

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Device details

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Education Fundamentals**

Education Standard

Teaching and Learning Upgrade

Education Plus

Fundamental endpoint management

Basic device details (mobile)

✔

Basic endpoint details
(computer & smart home devices)

✔

Basic device reports (Chrome & mobile)

✔

Advanced endpoint management*

Advanced device reports (mobile)

✔

Enterprise endpoint management*

Devices log events

✔

* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
** Add Endpoint Education Upgrade to Education Fundamentals to get all endpoint management features

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3rd-party app integration

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Education Fundamentals

Education Standard

Teaching and Learning Upgrade

Education Plus

Single sign-on (SSO) using Google as IdP

✔

Single sign-on (SSO) using a 3rd-party IdP

✔

App catalog of 200+ preconfigured SAML apps

✔

Autoprovisioning of SAML apps (maximum number)

Unlimited

Secure LDAP: Connect LDAP-based apps and services

✔

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Gmail

Email addresses and mailing lists

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	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Teaching and Learning Upgrade	Education Plus
Your email address ( you @ yourcompany .com)	✔	✔	✔	✔
Additional addresses per user (sales@ yourcompany .com)	✔	✔	✔	✔
Addresses at multiple domains ( you @ company2 .com)	✔	✔	✔	✔
Admin-controlled mailing lists	✔	✔	✔	✔
User-controlled mailing lists	✔	✔	✔	✔
Mail merge		✔		✔

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Email usage and limits

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Education Fundamentals

Education Standard

Teaching and Learning Upgrade

Education Plus

Email storage (shared with documents and photos)

100 TB pooled cloud storage

Attachment size limit (sending)

25 MB

Attachment size limit (receiving)

50 MB

Recipients per message (To, Cc, Bcc fields combined)

2,000 (500 external)

Unique recipients per day
(Each unique address counts once.)

3,000 (2,000 external, 500 external for trial accounts)

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Email security and compliance

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	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Teaching and Learning Upgrade	Education Plus
Junk email filtering and virus blocking	✔	✔	✔	✔
Gmail ads turned off	✔	✔	✔	✔
Custom filtering and content policies	✔	✔	✔	✔
Email and chat retention policies	✔	✔	✔	✔
Allowed IP addresses	✔	✔	✔	✔
User-managed denylists	✔	✔	✔	✔
Enforced-compliance footers	✔	✔	✔	✔
Option to disable IMAP & POP access	✔	✔	✔	✔
Vault for email/IM eDiscovery and archiving	✔	✔	✔	✔
Gmail data loss prevention (DLP)	✔	✔	✔	✔
S/MIME encryption for email	✔	✔	✔	✔
Advanced phishing and malware protection	✔	✔	✔	✔
Gmail log search in BigQuery		✔		✔
Malware detection in email attachments (Security Sandbox)		✔		✔
Client-side encryption for email		✔		✔
Use optical character recognition to read images		✔		✔

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Advanced email delivery options

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	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Teaching and Learning Upgrade	Education Plus
Catch-all address	✔	✔	✔	✔
Email routing options for split and dual delivery	✔	✔	✔	✔
Inbound gateway	✔	✔	✔	✔
Outbound gateway (for entire organization)	✔	✔	✔	✔
Outbound relay server (for alternative From: addresses)	✔	✔	✔	✔
Receiving from multiple POP addresses	✔	✔	✔	✔

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Drive and Docs editors

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	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Teaching and Learning Upgrade	Education Plus
Drive for desktop	✔	✔	✔	✔
Turn Docs creation on or off	✔	✔	✔	✔
Connected Sheets	✔	✔	✔	✔
Advanced Drive logs and reports (Drive log events)	✔	✔	✔	✔
Shared drives	✔	✔	✔	✔
Drive data loss prevention (DLP)	✔	✔	✔	✔
Smart chip data extraction	✔	✔	✔	✔
Organizational branding (custom templates)	✔	✔	✔	✔
Generative AI in Docs, Sheets, & Slides *	✔	✔		✔
Proofread documents *	✔	✔		✔
Delegate access to Connected Sheets		✔		✔
Target audience groups (preset sharing options)		✔		✔
Manage Drive metadata (custom labels and fields)		✔		✔
Trust rules for Drive sharing permissions		✔		✔
Client-side encryption for Drive files		✔		✔
Manage document approvals				✔
Organizational branding (default templates and themes) **				✔

* Requires a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on

** Only Google Slides, Forms, and Sites

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Groups/Groups for Business

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	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Teaching and Learning Upgrade	Education Plus
Email list groups	✔	✔	✔	✔
Groups for content sharing, calendar invitations	✔	✔	✔	✔
Collaborative Inboxes and message moderation	✔	✔	✔	✔
User managed groups	✔	✔	✔	✔
Configuration groups for use by admins	✔	✔	✔	✔
Target audience groups (preset sharing options)		✔		✔
Inspect group membership		✔		✔
Restrict group membership		✔		✔
Dynamic groups (manage membership automatically)		✔		✔
View members of nested groups (indirect members)		✔		✔

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Google Meet

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Education Fundamentals

Education Standard

Teaching and Learning Upgrade

Education Plus

Maximum meeting length

24 hours

Maximum number of participants per meeting

100

250

1,000 ¹

External participants

✔

Secure meetings

✔

Presentations and screen sharing

✔

App for Android and iOS

✔

Hand raising

✔

Raise a room's hand using Meet hardware

✔

Moderation controls

✔

Digital whiteboard

✔

Add Meet video to Microsoft Outlook

✔

Custom backgrounds

✔

Closed Captions, viewer initiated

✔

Add co-hosts to meetings ^†

✔

Reactions

✔

Generative AI in Meet **

✔

Dial in (U.S. & international numbers) *

U.S. only

✔

Control Slides presentations

✔

Record meetings & save them to Drive

✔ ★

✔

In-domain live streaming (maximum number viewers)

10k ★

100k

Noise cancellation

✔ ★

✔

Breakout rooms ^†

✔ ★

✔

Polls

✔ ★

✔

Q&A

✔ ★

✔

Track attendance (requires 2 or more attendees)

✔ ★

✔

Set recording quality for screen shares

✔

Live translated captions

✔

Client-side encryption for audio and video

✔

* Powered by Google Voice
** Requires a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on .
† Dependent on Google Calendar limit of 200 invitees.
¹ After 500, the next 500 join as View only .
★ Marks where the Teaching and Learning Upgrade adds value to Education Fundamentals or Standard edition.

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Google Chat

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	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Teaching and Learning Upgrade	Education Plus
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	✔	✔	✔	✔
Turn external spaces on or off	✔	✔	✔	✔
Integrate Chat with a third-party archiving solution	✔	✔	✔	✔
Use discoverable spaces	✔	✔	✔	✔
Chat data loss prevention (DLP)	✔	✔	✔	✔
Automatically delete Chat messages for your organization		✔		✔
Control file sharing in Chat		✔		✔
Moderate Chat content		✔		✔

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Google Calendar

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	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Teaching and Learning Upgrade	Education Plus
Team calendars	✔	✔	✔	✔
Resource booking (rooms, buildings, equipment)	✔	✔	✔	✔
Add video conferencing to events	✔	✔	✔	✔
Automatically add events to calendars	✔	✔	✔	✔
Sync calendars with Microsoft Exchange	✔	✔	✔	✔
Set a default duration for events	✔	✔	✔	✔
Set up appointment schedules	✔	✔	✔	✔
Automatically free unused meeting rooms	✔	✔	✔	✔
Allow users to share working location	✔	✔	✔	✔
Let users view analytics about their time allocation		✔		✔
Client-side encryption for event descriptions		✔		✔

Classroom and Assignments

★ Marks where the Teaching and Learning Upgrade adds value to Education Fundamentals or Standard edition

Education Fundamentals

Education Standard

Teaching and Learning Upgrade

Education Plus

Originality reports for student assignments

5 assignments per course

Unlimited ★

Peer comparison on originality reports

✔ ★

✔

Practice sets

✔ ★

✔

Designate users with analytics data access

✔

Designate users with temporary class access

✔

SIS roster import

U.S. only

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Security and data protection

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Reports and log events

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Device security settings

Device management

Mobile app management

Device details

3rd-party app integration

Gmail

Email addresses and mailing lists

Email usage and limits

Email security and compliance

Advanced email delivery options

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Groups/Groups for Business

Google Meet

Google Chat

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