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 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
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Gmail and Calendar
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Groups for Business
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Chat and chat rooms
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Sites
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Tasks
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Directory management
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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
* For qualified educational institutions
** Education customers can also purchase Google Workspace Additional Storage
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User access options
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Security and data management
Security policies and data protection
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Security dashboards & investigation tools
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Security investigation tool Log event reporting with premium features:
- Take action based on search results
- Automate security threat response with activity rules
- Customize searches with nested queries
- Group results by attribute when searching
- Create a custom chart based on an investigation
- Save, share, delete, and duplicate investigations
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Data regions
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* Users who don't have a supported edition for Data regions for Education aren't covered by data region policies—even if you apply a data region policy to their organizational unit.
Security investigation tool: Common use cases
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Security Dashboard reports
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Security health page reports
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Device management settings that can be monitored
- Blocking of compromised mobile devices
- Mobile management
- Mobile password requirements
- Device encryption
- Mobile inactivity reports
- Auto account wipe
- Application verification
- Installation of mobile applications from unknown sources
- External media storage
Security settings that can be monitored
- Two-step verification for users
- Two-step verification for admins
- Security key enforcement for admins
- Security key enforcement for users
Gmail settings that can be monitored
- Automatic email forwarding
- Comprehensive mail storage
- Bypassing spam filters for internal senders
- POP and IMAP access for users
- DKIM, SPF records, & DMARC
- Approved senders without authentication
- Approved domain senders
- Email whitelist IPs
- Add spam headers setting to all default routing rules
- MX record configuration
- MTA-STS configuration
- Attachment safety
- Links and external images safety
- Spoofing and authentication safety
Drive settings that can be monitored
- Drive sharing settings
- Warning for out-of-domain sharing
- Access Checker
- Drive add-ons
- Access to offline docs
- Desktop access to Drive
- File publishing on the web
- Google sign-in requirement for external collaborators
Migration products
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Endpoint management
Device security settings
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* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
** Add Endpoint Education Upgrade
to Education Fundamentals to get all endpoint management features
Device management
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* 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
Mobile app management
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* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
** Add Endpoint Education Upgrade
to Education Fundamentals to get all endpoint management features
Device details
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* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
** Add Endpoint Education Upgrade
to Education Fundamentals to get all endpoint management features
3rd-party app integration
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Gmail
Email addresses and mailing lists
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Email usage and limits
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Email security and compliance
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Advanced email delivery options
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Outbound gateway
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Drive and Docs editors
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* Requires a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on
** Only Google Slides, Forms, and Sites
Groups/Groups for Business
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Email list groups
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Google Meet
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* Powered by Google Voice
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Google Chat
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Classroom and Assignments
★ Marks where the Teaching and Learning Upgrade adds value to Education Fundamentals or Standard edition
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