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 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
Suite wide Service specific

Service availability

Usage and support

User access options

Reports and monitoring

Security and data management

Migration products

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
Colab to collaboratively develop data science and machine learning models (as an additional Google service, no user licenses required)
Gemini app with enterprise-grade data protections*
✔ 
  ✔   ✔
Google Cloud Search for internal search and assist (across Google and third-party services)

✔**

✔**
✔**

* Compare  Gemini app offerings .** 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
Any number
99.9% uptime guarantee
100 TB pooled storage
Additional pooled cloud storage**
100 GB per user 
20 GB per user

* For qualified educational institutions
** Education customers can also purchase Google 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
Access across devices (computers, phones, tablets)
Offline access

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Reports and monitoring

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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 Enterprise Plus
✔ 

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Security and data management

Security policies and data protection

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Education Fundamentals Education Standard Teaching and Learning Upgrade Education Plus
✔* ✔* ✔*
Cloud Identity Premium security management
(no separate license required)

* Requires a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on.

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Security dashboards & investigation tools

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Data regions

Education Fundamentals
Education Standard
Teaching and Learning Upgrade
Education Plus
Data regions for Education *
Basic data regions reports
(Includes data at rest, versions, and policy summaries)

* 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.

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Security investigation tool: Common use cases

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Log events of user and admin activity

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† Performed with the security investigation tool, which provides premium reporting features .

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Security Dashboard reports

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Education Fundamentals Education Standard Teaching and Learning Upgrade Education Plus

† Requires Chrome Enterprise Premium

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Security health page reports

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Education Fundamentals
Education Standard
Teaching and Learning Upgrade
Education Plus

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

Hangouts settings that can be monitored

  • Hangouts out of domain warning

Groups settings that can be monitored

  • Groups creation and membership

Marketplace apps settings that can be monitored

  • Google Workspace Marketplace applications usage

Calendar settings that can be monitored

  • Calendar sharing policy

Sites settings that can be monitored

  • Access to Calendar when offline

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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
Advanced endpoint management*
Enterprise endpoint 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 management

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Education Fundamentals**
Education Standard
Teaching and Learning Upgrade
Education Plus
Fundamental endpoint management
Advanced endpoint management*
Enterprise endpoint management*

* 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
Advanced endpoint management*
Enterprise endpoint 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
Advanced endpoint management*
Enterprise endpoint 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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3rd-party app integration

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Education Fundamentals
Education Standard
Teaching and Learning Upgrade
Education Plus

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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
Personalized email campaigns with mail merge

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Email usage and limits

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Education Fundamentals
Education Standard
Teaching and Learning Upgrade
Education Plus
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

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Advanced email delivery options

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Outbound gateway (for entire organization)
Outbound relay server (for alternative From: addresses)

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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

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Google Meet

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

Education Fundamentals
Education Standard
Teaching and Learning Upgrade
Education Plus
Maximum meeting length
24 hours
24 hours
24 hours
24 hours
External participants
Moderation controls
Custom backgrounds
Closed Captions, viewer initiated
In-domain live streaming  (maximum number viewers)

10k 

100k

✔ 
✔ 
✔ 
Q&A
✔ 
Track attendance (requires 2 or more attendees)
✔ 

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

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Google Calendar

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Education Fundamentals Education Standard Teaching and Learning Upgrade Education Plus

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

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