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 Essentials editions

Essentials editions are designed to provide seamless integration with your existing email solution. Use these tables to see exactly which features are included with the following editions:

Essentials Starter—Collaboration and video conferencing at no cost for teams of up to 100 users. (Or if you signed up for Essentials Starter before June 3, 2022, teams can have up to 25 users.)
Essentials—Collaboration and video conferencing, additional security features, pooled storage, and policy controls. Essentials edition is no longer available for new customers.
Enterprise Essentials—Collaboration and video conferencing with more participants and advanced features, more pooled storage, and enterprise-grade security and management.
Enterprise Essentials Plus—More advanced security and compliance controls for greater productivity and collaboration, with 5 TB of pooled storage per user.

Suite wide	Service specific
Service availability Identity management Usage and support User access options Reports and monitoring Security and data management Endpoint management 3rd-party app integration Other admin features	Drive and Docs editors Groups / Groups for Business Google Meet Google Chat

Suite wide

Service specific

Reports and monitoring

Security and data management

Endpoint management

3rd-party app integration

Other admin features

Drive and Docs editors

Groups / Groups for Business

Google Meet

Google Chat

Service availability

Compare instead: Business editions (1-300 users) | Enterprise editions | Education editions

	Essentials Starter	Essentials**	Enterprise Essentials	Enterprise Essentials Plus
Calendar	✔	✔	✔	✔
Drive storage and Docs editors	✔	✔	✔	✔
Video conferencing with Meet	✔	✔	✔	✔
Digital whiteboarding with Jamboard	✔	✔	✔	✔
Tasks	✔	✔	✔	✔
Directory management	✔	✔	✔	✔
Sites	✔	✔	✔	✔
Notetaking with Keep	✔	✔	✔	✔
Chat and chat spaces	✔	✔	✔	✔*
Groups for Business		✔*	✔*	✔*
Additional Google services (admin managed)		✔*	✔*	✔*
Google Cloud Search for internal search and assist	✔ Only Google services	✔* Only Google services
Gemini for Google Workspace (add-on)			✔*	✔*
Gemini app (as an additional Google service, no user licenses required). Learn more			✔*	✔*
Gemini Advanced † (as a core service with enterprise-grade data protections, user license required). Learn more			✔*	✔*
Google Vault for eDiscovery and information governance			✔*	✔*
AppSheet Core				✔*

* Requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.† Requires a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on

Note:If your organization has Essentials Starter or an email-verified account for Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, or Enterprise Essentials Plus, users can access additional services that aren't admin-managed, such as Google Groups and Photos.

	Essentials Starter	Essentials**	Enterprise Essentials	Enterprise Essentials Plus
Add or remove existing user accounts	✔	✔	✔	✔
Assign a super admin role	✔	✔	✔	✔
Create and delete user accounts		✔*	✔*	✔*
Assign custom admin roles		✔*	✔*	✔*
Manage user profiles		✔*	✔*	✔*

	Essentials Starter	Essentials**	Enterprise Essentials	Enterprise Essentials Plus
Number of users	100 ^†	Any number	Any number	Any number
Email, document, photo storage per user	15 GB	100 GB per user, up to a maximum of 2 TB ^††	1 TB per user ^††	5 TB ^††
99.9% uptime guarantee	✔	✔	✔	✔
Standard Support		✔
Enhanced Support			✔	✔

	Essentials Starter	Essentials**	Enterprise Essentials	Enterprise Essentials Plus
Supported browsers	✔	✔	✔	✔
Access across devices (computers, phones, tablets)	✔	✔	✔	✔
Offline access	✔	✔	✔	✔
Microsoft Outlook		✔*	✔*	✔*

	Essentials Starter	Essentials**	Enterprise Essentials	Enterprise Essentials Plus
Highlights reports summarizing metrics and trends	✔	✔	✔	✔
Apps-usage reports (organization wide)	✔	✔	✔	✔
User- and admin-specific activity reports	✔	✔	✔	✔
Carbon footprint report	✔	✔	✔	✔
Audit and investigation tool Log event reporting ( See log events below )	✔	✔	✔	✔
Drive DLP data protection insights report			✔	✔
Google Meet attendance reports		✔	✔	✔
Export reports to BigQuery				✔*
VirusTotal reports
Log-event exports to Google Security Operations
Work Insights reports for users				✔*

	Essentials Starter	Essentials**	Enterprise Essentials	Enterprise Essentials Plus
2-Step Verification (admin managed)		✔*	✔*	✔*
Security keys for 2-Step Verification		✔*	✔*	✔*
Set session length for Google Cloud services	✔	✔*	✔*	✔*
Collaboration with trusted external domains	✔	✔	✔	✔
Basic data exports	✔	✔	✔	✔
Enforced SSL connections			✔	✔
Password monitoring and strength control			✔*	✔*
Generative AI security protections			✔ ^††	✔ ^††
Drive data protection insights report			✔	✔
Set session length for Google services				✔*
Data loss prevention (DLP)				✔*
Control access based on user and device context (Context-Aware Access)				✔*
Cloud Identity Premium security management (no separate license required)				✔*
Advanced data exports				✔
Client-side encryption
Assured Controls for managing compliance & security requirements (add-on)

	Essentials**	Enterprise Essentials Plus
Use the security investigation tool to end meetings	✔	✔
Investigate file sharing	✔	✔
Transfer a Drive file from an unknown owner	✔	✔
Investigate users across data sources	✔	✔
Search and investigate user log events	✔*	✔*
Investigate and take action on suspicious session cookies	✔*	✔*
Investigate Chat messages to moderate content and protect your data	✔†	✔†
Investigate reports of malicious emails
Use the investigation tool to view sensitive content

	Essentials Starter	Essentials**	Enterprise Essentials	Enterprise Essentials Plus
Admin data action log events	✔	✔	✔	✔†
Admin log events	✔	✔	✔	✔†
Calendar log events	✔	✔	✔	✔†
Chat log events	✔	✔	✔	✔†
Chrome log events	✔	✔	✔	✔†
Chrome Sync log events	✔*	✔*	✔*	✔*†
Cloud Search log events	✔*	✔*	✔*	✔*†
Contacts log events	✔*	✔*	✔*	✔*†
Context Aware Access log events	✔*	✔*	✔*	✔*†
Device log events	✔*	✔*	✔*	✔*†
Directory Sync log events	✔*	✔*	✔*	✔*†
Drive log events	✔	✔	✔	✔†
Graduation log events	✔*	✔*	✔*	✔*†
Groups Enterprise log events	✔*	✔*	✔*	✔*†
Groups log events	✔	✔	✔	✔†
Jamboard log events	✔*	✔*	✔*	✔*†
Keep log events	✔*	✔*	✔*	✔*†
LDAP log events	✔*	✔*	✔*	✔*†
Looker Studio log events	✔*	✔*	✔*	✔*†
Meet log events	✔	✔	✔	✔†
Meet recordings in Drive log events	✔*	✔*	✔*	✔*†
OAuth log events	✔*	✔*	✔*	✔*†
Profile log events	✔*	✔*	✔*	✔*†
Rule log events	✔*	✔*	✔*	✔*†
SAML log events	✔*	✔*	✔*	✔*†
Takeout log events	✔*	✔*	✔*	✔*†
Tasks log events	✔*	✔*	✔*	✔*†
User log events	✔*	✔*	✔*	✔*†
Vault log events	✔	✔	✔	✔†
Voice log events	✔*	✔*	✔*	✔*†
Access Transparency log events				✔*†
Devices log events				✔*†
Users events				✔*†
Chrome browsers events
Gmail log events
Gmail messages

	Essentials Starter	Essentials**	Enterprise Essentials	Enterprise Essentials Plus
DLP incidents report				✔*
Top policy incidents report				✔*
User login attempts report				✔*
Failed device password attempts report				✔*
Compromised device events report				✔*
Suspicious device activities report				✔*
OAuth grant activity report				✔*
OAuth grants to new apps report				✔*
Sensitive content transfer on Chrome report				✔*†
Users with most sensitive content transfer on Chrome report				✔*†
Domains with most sensitive content transfer on Chrome report				✔*†
Domain types with most sensitive content transfer on Chrome report				✔*†
Chrome threat protection summary report				✔*†
Chrome data protection summary report				✔*†
Chrome high risk users report				✔*†
Chrome high risk domains report				✔*†
Suspicious attachments report				✔*
File exposure report				✔*
Authentication report				✔*
Custom settings report				✔*
Encryption report				✔*
Message delivery report				✔*
Spam filter report				✔*
User report				✔*
Spoofing report				✔*

	Essentials Starter	Essentials**	Enterprise Essentials	Enterprise Essentials Plus
Single sign-on (SSO) using a 3rd-party IdP	✔Microsoft (OIDC) only	✔*	✔*	✔*
Single sign-on (SSO) using Google as IdP		✔*	✔*	✔*
App catalog of 200+ preconfigured SAML apps		✔*	✔*	✔*
Autoprovisioning of SAML apps (maximum number)		Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Secure LDAP: Connect LDAP-based apps & services				✔*

	Essentials Starter	Essentials**	Enterprise Essentials	Enterprise Essentials Plus
Admin SDK (APIs to manage users and services, create reports, and more)		✔*	✔*	✔*
Upgrade directly to a Google Workspace Business or Enterprise edition with Gmail		✔*	✔*	✔*

	Essentials**	Enterprise Essentials	Enterprise Essentials Plus
Groups for content sharing and 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 (direct & indirect) in all groups			✔*

	Essentials Starter	Essentials*	Enterprise Essentials	Enterprise Essentials Plus
Drive for desktop	✔	✔	✔	✔
Connected Sheets	✔	✔	✔	✔
Advanced Drive logs and reports (Drive log events)	✔	✔	✔	✔
Drive sharing permissions	✔	✔	✔	✔
Shared drives		✔	✔	✔
Manage document approvals		✔	✔	✔
Manage Drive metadata (custom labels and fields)		✔	✔	✔
Turn Docs creation on or off		✔	✔	✔
Delegate access to Connected Sheets			✔	✔
eSignature			✔	✔
Smart chip data extraction			✔	✔
Generative AI in Docs, Sheets, & Slides †			✔	✔
Drive inventory export				✔
Drive file suggestions in Chrome browser address bar				✔
Organizational branding (custom templates)				✔
Drive data loss prevention (DLP)				✔**
Trust rules for Drive sharing permissions				✔**
Client-side encryption for Drive files				✔**

	Essentials Starter	Essentials**	Enterprise Essentials	Enterprise Essentials Plus
Maximum meeting length	60 minutes	24 hours	24 hours	24 hours
Maximum number of participants per meeting	100	100	150	1,000 ¹
External participants	✔	✔	✔	✔
Secure meetings	✔	✔	✔	✔
Presentations and screen sharing	✔	✔	✔	✔
App for Android and iOS	✔	✔	✔	✔
Digital whiteboard	✔	✔	✔	✔
Add Meet video to Microsoft Outlook	✔	✔	✔	✔
Works with Meet room hardware	✔	✔	✔	✔
Hand raising	✔	✔	✔	✔
Raise a room's hand using Meet hardware	✔	✔	✔ ^*	✔
Reactions	✔	✔	✔	✔
Meet eCDN	✔	✔	✔	✔
Dial in (U.S. & international numbers) ^††		✔	✔	✔
Record meetings & save them to Drive		✔	✔	✔
Breakout rooms ^†††		✔	✔	✔
Polls		✔	✔	✔
Q&A		✔	✔	✔
Track attendance (requires 2 or more attendees)		✔	✔	✔
Add co-hosts to meetings ^†††		✔	✔	✔
Control Slides presentations		✔	✔	✔
Generative AI in Meet ^†			✔	✔
Noise cancellation			✔	✔
Set recording quality for screen shares			✔	✔
In-domain and trusted domain live streaming (maximum number viewers)				100k
Transcribe meetings & save them to Drive				✔
Client-side encryption for audio and video				✔*

	Essentials Starter	Essentials**	Enterprise Essentials	Enterprise Essentials Plus
Set spaces history option for users	✔	✔	✔	✔*
Turn chat history on or off		✔	✔	✔*
Automatically accept chat invitations		✔	✔	✔*
Allow or restrict external chat		✔	✔	✔*
Allow or restrict Chat apps		✔	✔	✔*
Turn external spaces on or off		✔	✔	✔*
Use discoverable spaces		✔*	✔*	✔*
External chat for 1:1 and group direct messages				✔*
Control file sharing in Chat				✔*

Compare Google Workspace editions

Compare Essentials editions

Service availability

Identity management

Usage and support

User access options

Reports and monitoring

Security and data management

Security policies and data protection

Security dashboards & investigation tools

Data regions

Security investigation tool: Common use cases

Log events of user and admin activity

Security Dashboard reports

Security health page reports

Endpoint management

Device security settings

Device management

Mobile app management

Device details

3rd-party app integration

Other admin features

Drive and Docs editors

Groups / Groups for Business

Google Meet

Google Chat

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