K–12 and higher-education institutions may qualify for our Education editions, which provide a suite of productivity tools tailored for teaching and learning.
Compare Education editions
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Use these tables to compare the following editions, available to qualified education institutions:
Education editions
- Education Fundamentals
Provides access to core and additional Google services for qualifying schools and universities.
Add-on features available with the Teaching and Learning Upgrade - Education Standard (available April 2021)
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 (available April 2021)
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.
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| General | Service details | |
|---|---|---|
Core and additional services
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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 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Additional Google services | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Google Vault for eDiscovery and information governance | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Google Cloud Search for internal search and assist (across Google and third-party services) |
✔* |
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| Integrate third-party repositories in Cloud Search | ✔* | |||
| Index third-party data using Cloud Search | ✔* | |||
| AppSheet Core | ✔ |
* For third-party services your organization must have at least 500 user licenses and a Google Cloud Search certified partner.
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 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 24/7 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
** Faster response times when you purchase 200 or more user licenses
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 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Migration products
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| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education 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 SharePoint, OneDrive, Box, or file shares | ✔ |
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 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Manage access to password-vaulted apps | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Device management
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| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fundamental endpoint management (many features) |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced endpoint management (many features) |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Enterprise endpoint management (many features) |
✔ | ✔ |
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 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
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) | |||
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) | ✔ | ✔ |
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 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Google Meet
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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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maximum meeting length | 2 weeks / 336 hours |
2 weeks / 336 hours |
2 weeks / 336 hours |
2 weeks / 336 hours |
| Maximum number of participants per meeting | 100 | 250 | 500 | |
| External participants | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Secure meetings | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Presentations and screen sharing | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| App for Android and iOS | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Hand raising | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Moderation controls | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Digital whiteboard | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Add Meet video to Microsoft Outlook | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Custom backgrounds | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Closed Captions, viewer initiated | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Add co-hosts to meetings | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Dial in (U.S. & international numbers)* | U.S. only | ✔ | ||
| Record meetings & save them to Drive | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| In-domain live streaming (maximum number viewers, staff licenses only) |
10k ★ |
100k |
||
| Noise cancellation | ✔ ★ | ✔ | ||
| Breakout rooms | ✔ ★ | ✔ | ||
| Polls | ✔ ★ | ✔ | ||
| Q&A | ✔ ★ | ✔ | ||
| Track attendance (requires 5 or more attendees) | ✔ ★ | ✔ | ||
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 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Control file sharing in Chat | ✔ | ✔ |
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 | ✔ ★ | ✔ | ||
| SIS roster import | U.S. only | |||
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