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

To find out your edition, go to Which edition & payment plan do I have?

Compare Business editions (1–300 users)

Use these tables to compare the following editions. Sign up for a single-user account with a Gmail address. Or, sign up with a business email address or verified domain to add up to 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 .

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

Suite wide

Service specific

Reports and monitoring

Security and data management

Endpoint management

3rd-party app integration

Gemini features

Gmail

Drive and Docs editors

Groups / Groups for Business

Google Meet

Google Chat

Calendar

Service availability

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Chat and chat spaces	✔	✔	✔
Drive storage and Docs editors	✔	✔	✔
Video conferencing with Meet	✔	✔	✔
Directory management	✔	✔	✔
Sites	✔	✔	✔
Tasks	✔	✔	✔
Notetaking with Keep	✔	✔	✔
Colab to collaboratively develop data science and machine learning models (as an additional Google service, no user licenses required)	✔	✔	✔
Gemini app with data protections*	✔	✔	✔
Gmail and Calendar	✔**	✔**	✔**
Groups for Business	✔ ^†	✔ ^†	✔ ^†
AppSheet Core	✔ ^†	✔ ^†	✔ ^†
Additional Google services	✔ ^†	✔ ^†	✔ ^†
Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ (add-on)	✔ ^†	✔ ^†	✔ ^†
Google Vids	✔ ^††	✔**	✔**
Google Cloud Search for internal search and assist (across Google services, only)		✔ ^†	✔ ^†
Google Vault for eDiscovery and information governance			✔ ^†

* Enterprise-grade data protection requires verifying your domain. Compare Gemini app offerings .
** This feature requires signing up with a personal Gmail address or verifying your domain.
^† This feature requires verifying your domain.
^†† Users will have full access to generative AI features in Google Vids for a limited time, at least through May 31, 2026.

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Usage and support

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Number of users	1-300	1-300	1-300
Email, document, photo storage per user	30 GB pooled	2 TB pooled	5 TB pooled
Purchase additional pooled storage *	✔	✔	✔
99.9% uptime guarantee	✔	✔	✔
Standard Support	✔	✔	✔

* This feature requires signing up with a business email address or verifying your domain.

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User access options

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Supported browsers	✔	✔	✔
Access across devices (computers, phones, tablets)	✔	✔	✔
Offline access	✔	✔	✔
Microsoft Outlook	✔*	✔*	✔*
IMAP and POP mail clients	✔*	✔*	✔*

* This feature requires verifying your domain.

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Migration products

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Migrate email (< 100 users)	✔*	✔*	✔*
Migrate email, calendars, contacts, files (many tools)	✔*	✔*	✔*
Migrate from Gmail or other webmail	✔*	✔*	✔*
Migrate from Outlook	✔*	✔*	✔*
Have users migrate their data	✔*	✔*	✔*
Migrate from Exchange		✔*	✔*
Migrate data with Google Workspace Migrate		✔*	✔*

* This feature requires verifying your domain.

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Reports and monitoring

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business 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			✔*
Log-event exports to Google Security Operations
Export reports to BigQuery
VirusTotal reports
Work Insights reports for users

* This feature requires signing up with a business email address or verifying your domain.** This feature requires verifying your domain.

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Security and data management

Security policies and data protection

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Set session length for Google Cloud services	✔	✔	✔
Enforced SSL connections	✔	✔	✔
2-Step Verification	✔*	✔*	✔*
Password monitoring and strength control	✔*	✔*	✔*
Basic data exports	✔**	✔**	✔**
Security keys for 2-Step Verification	✔ ^†	✔ ^†	✔ ^†
Collaboration with trusted external domains	✔ ^†	✔ ^†	✔ ^†
Drive data protection insights report	✔ ^†	✔ ^†	✔ ^†
Set session length for Google services			✔ ^†
Security advisor data protection			✔ ^†
Gemini AI security protections
Control access based on user and device context (Context-Aware Access)
Advanced data exports
Client-side encryption
Assured Controls for managing compliance & security requirements (add-on)

* This feature requires signing up with a personal Gmail address or verifying your domain.
** This feature requires signing up with a business email address or verifying your domain.
^† This feature requires verifying your domain.

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Security dashboards & investigation tools

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Business Starter

Business Standard

Business Plus

Alert center: Notifications of potential security issues

✔*

Audit and investigation tool
Log event reporting
( See specific log events below )

✔*

Security investigation tool Log event reporting with premium features:

Security dashboard reports

Security health page

* This feature requires signing up with a business email address or verifying your domain.

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Data regions

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Business Starter

Business Standard

Business Plus

Fundamental data regions

Set a single data at rest region policy for everyone in your organization

✔

Enterprise data regions

Set data at rest region policies for organizational units or groups

Basic data regions reports
(Includes data at rest, versions, and policy summaries)

Set data region processing policies
(including for organizational units and groups)

Advanced settings for data regions

Assured Controls data regions (add-on)

Advanced data regions reports
(Includes data processing by region and service, and data at rest by service)

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Log events of user and admin activity

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Admin log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Calendar log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Chat log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Chrome log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Drive log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Groups log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Keep log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Meet log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Meet recordings in Drive log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Vault log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Admin data action 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	✔**	✔**	✔**
Graduation log events	✔**	✔**	✔**
Groups Enterprise log events	✔**	✔**	✔**
LDAP log events	✔**	✔**	✔**
Looker Studio log events	✔**	✔**	✔**
OAuth log events	✔**	✔**	✔**
Profile log events	✔**	✔**	✔**
Rule log events	✔**	✔**	✔**
SAML log events	✔**	✔**	✔**
Takeout log events	✔**	✔**	✔**
Tasks log events	✔**	✔**	✔**
User log events	✔**	✔**	✔**
Voice log events	✔**	✔**	✔**
Access Transparency log events
Chrome browsers events
Devices events
Gmail log events
Gmail messages
Users events

* This feature requires signing up with a business email address or verifying your domain.** This feature requires verifying your domain.

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Endpoint management

Device security settings

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Business Starter

Business Standard

Business Plus

Fundamental endpoint management

Basic passcode enforcement (mobile)

✔*

Google Credential Provider for Windows (standalone)

✔*

Network management (excluding mobile)

✔*

Advanced endpoint management**

Strong passcode enforcement

✔*

Network management
(ChromeOS, meeting room hardware)

✔*

Mobile device security policies

✔*

Android work profiles

✔*

Enterprise endpoint management**

iOS data protection

Mobile device certificates

Context-Aware Access

* This feature requires verifying your domain.
** Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management .

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Device management

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Business Starter

Business Standard

Business 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

* This feature requires verifying your domain.
** Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management .

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Mobile app management

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Business Starter

Business Standard

Business 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

* This feature requires verifying your domain.
** Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management .

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Device details

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Business Starter

Business Standard

Business 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

✔*

* This feature requires verifying your domain.
** Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management .

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3rd-party app integration

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business 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)	3	Unlimited	Unlimited
Secure LDAP: Connect LDAP-based apps and services			✔*

* This feature requires verifying your domain.

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Gemini features

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Business Starter

Business Standard

Business Plus

Gmail*

Help me write

✔

Side panel

✔

Contextual smart replies

✔

Google Chat

Side panel

✔

Summarize conversations

✔

Automatic translation

✔

Google Meet

Take notes for me

✔

Studio sound, studio look, and studio lighting

✔

Watermarking

✔

Adaptive audio

✔

Translated captions

✔

Generate a background

✔

Google Docs

Side panel

✔

Help me write

✔

Help me create an image

✔

Summarize a document

✔

Google Sheets

Side panel

✔

Enhanced smart fill

✔

Google Slides

Side panel

✔

Help me create an image

✔

Remove image backgrounds

✔

Google Vids

Full access to AI features

✔**

✔

Google Drive

Side panel

✔

Analyze PDFs

✔

Gemini app

Access

Access to features & models with enterprise-grade security & privacy

Expanded access to features & models with enterprise-grade security & privacy

2.5 Pro

Limited access

Expanded access

2.5 Flash

General access

Audio Overviews

Limited access

Expanded access

Connect to Google Workspace apps *

General access

Connect to GitHub & upload code folders

General access

Deep research

Limited access using Gemini 2.5 Flash

Expanded access using Gemini 2.5 Pro & 2.5 Flash

Scheduled actions

General access

General availability features †

General access

Context window

32 thousand

1 million

NotebookLM

Higher limits

General access

5x more Audio Overviews, notebooks, queries, and sources per notebook.

Sharing a notebook does not change limits for any collaborator.

Premium features

Chat customization , advanced sharing, and notebook analytics

Security

AI classification in Drive

_{* Feature is unavailable to customers who have email-verified accounts
.
** Users will have full access to generative AI features
in Google Vids for a limited time, at least through May 31, 2026.
† Features available to all Gemini App users like Canvas, Gems, file upload, image generation, Live, and more}

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Gmail

Email addresses and mailing lists

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business 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	✔*	✔*	✔*
Personalized email campaigns with mail merge		✔**	✔**

* This feature requires verifying your domain.** This feature requires signing up with a personal Gmail address or verifying your domain.

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Email usage and limits

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Business Starter

Business Standard

Business Plus

Email storage (shared with documents and photos)

30 GB *

2 TB *

5 TB *

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) *

* This feature requires signing up with a personal Gmail address or verifying your domain.

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Email security & compliance

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business 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	✔**	✔**	✔**
Advanced phishing and malware protection	✔**	✔**	✔**
Advanced email attachment scanning (Security Sandbox)		✔**	✔**
Vault for email/IM eDiscovery and archiving			✔**

* This feature requires signing up with a personal Gmail address or verifying your domain.** This feature requires verifying your domain.

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Advanced email delivery options

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business 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	✔*	✔*	✔*

* This feature requires verifying your domain.

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Drive and Docs editors

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Google Drive for desktop	✔	✔	✔
Connected Sheets	✔	✔	✔
Drive sharing permissions	✔	✔	✔
Proofread documents	✔	✔	✔
Shared drives membership, creation, and external moves	✔*	✔*	✔*
Turn Docs creation on or off	✔*	✔*	✔*
Advanced Drive logs and reports (Drive log events)	✔*	✔*	✔*
eSignature		✔	✔
Smart chip data extraction		✔	✔
Manage document approvals		✔	✔
Manage Drive metadata (custom labels and fields)		✔	✔
Organizational branding (custom templates)		✔	✔
Gemini AI in Drive, Docs, Sheets, & Slides		✔	✔
Shared drives advanced sharing , access, and storage limits		✔*	✔*
Organizational branding (default templates and themes) **			✔

* This feature requires signing up with a business email address or verifying your domain. They can comment on and edit files that are directly shared with them from shared drives.
^** This feature only includes Google Slides, Forms, and Sites.

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Google Meet

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Maximum meeting length	24 hours	24 hours	24 hours
Maximum number of participants per meeting	100	150	500
External participants	✔	✔	✔
Secure meetings	✔	✔	✔
Presentations and screen sharing	✔	✔	✔
App for Android and iOS	✔	✔	✔
Dial in (U.S. & international numbers) *	✔	✔	✔
Hand raising	✔	✔	✔
Reactions	✔	✔	✔
Meet eCDN	✔	✔	✔
Add Meet video to Microsoft Outlook	✔**	✔**	✔**
Raise a room's hand using Meet hardware	✔**	✔**	✔**
Noise cancellation		✔	✔
Breakout rooms ^†		✔	✔
Record meetings & save them to Drive		✔	✔
Polls		✔	✔
Q&A		✔	✔
Add co-hosts to meetings ^†		✔	✔
Control Slides presentations		✔	✔
Transcribe meetings & save them to Drive		✔	✔
Set recording quality for screen shares		✔	✔
Waiting rooms in Meet		✔	✔
Gemini AI features in Meet		✔**	✔**
Track attendance (requires 2 or more attendees)			✔
Automatic meeting recording, transcripts, and notes			✔

* This feature is powered by Google Voice .
^** This feature requires signing up with a business email address or verifying your domain.
^† This feature is dependent on a Google Calendar limit of 200 invitees.

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Google Chat

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Turn chat history on or off	✔	✔	✔
External chat for 1:1 and group direct messages	✔	✔	✔
Allow or restrict external chat	✔	✔	✔
Allow or restrict Chat apps	✔	✔	✔
Use discoverable spaces	✔	✔	✔
Set space history option for users	✔*	✔*	✔*
Automatically accept chat invitations	✔*	✔*	✔*
Turn external spaces on or off		✔	✔
Gemini AI features in Chat		✔*	✔*
Chat Interoperability for interaction between Chat and non-Chat users (add-on)		✔*	✔*
Control file sharing in Chat			✔*
Automatically delete Chat messages for your organization			✔*

* This feature requires signing up with a business email address or verifying your domain.

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Groups/Groups for Business

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Email list groups	✔*	✔*	✔*
Groups for content sharing, calendar invitations	✔*	✔*	✔*
Collaborative Inboxes and message moderation	✔*	✔*	✔*
User managed groups	✔*	✔*	✔*
Configuration groups for use by admins	✔*	✔*	✔*
View members of a nested group **	✔*	✔*	✔*
Inspect group membership **	✔*	✔*	✔*
Target audience groups (preset sharing options)		✔*	✔*

* This feature requires verifying your domain.** This feature requires Cloud Identity Premium.

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Google Calendar

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Team calendars	✔*	✔*	✔*
Add video conferencing to events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Automatically add events to calendars	✔*	✔*	✔*
Resource booking (rooms, buildings, equipment)	✔**	✔**	✔**
Sync calendars with Microsoft Exchange	✔**	✔**	✔**
Set up appointment schedules	*✔ ^†**	✔*	✔*
Allow users to share working location		✔ ^††**	✔**
Let users view analytics about their time allocation			✔*

* This feature requires signing up with a personal Gmail address or verifying your domain.
** This feature requires verifying your domain.
^† Only basic functionality and no premium features are supported. Only one booking page.
^†† Users can share their working location, but you can’t turn the feature on or off.

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Usage and support

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Migration products

Reports and monitoring

Security and data management

Security policies and data protection

Security dashboards & investigation tools

Data regions

Log events of user and admin activity

Endpoint management

Device security settings

Device management

Mobile app management

Device details

3rd-party app integration

Gemini features

Gmail

Email addresses and mailing lists

Email usage and limits

Email security & compliance

Advanced email delivery options

Drive and Docs editors

Google Meet

Google Chat

Groups/Groups for Business

Google Calendar

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