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. 

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	Email	Service details
Core and additional services Usage and support User access options Security and data protection Migration products Reports and audit logs 3rd-party app integration Device management	Email addresses and mailing lists Email usage and limits Email security and compliance Advanced email delivery options	Drive and Docs editors Groups / Groups for Business Google Meet Google Chat Calendar Classroom and Assignments

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)				✔*
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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	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
‡ Education Plus customers can also purchase Workspace Additional Storage, which adds 10 TB to pooled storage per subscription.

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				✔

Reports and audit logs

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	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Teaching and Learning Upgrade	Education Plus
Usage trends of apps and users	✔	✔	✔	✔
Audit logs of user and admin activity	✔	✔	✔	✔
Advanced Drive auditing and reports	✔	✔	✔	✔
Export reports to BigQuery		✔		✔
Google Meet attendance reports			✔ ★	✔
Access Transparency logs of admin activity		✔		✔

 

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	✔	✔	✔	✔

 

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 ([e-mail])	✔	✔	✔	✔
Additional addresses per user ([e-mail])	✔	✔	✔	✔
Addresses at multiple domains ([e-mail])	✔	✔	✔	✔
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	✔	✔	✔	✔

Drive and Docs editors

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	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Teaching and Learning Upgrade	Education Plus
Drive for desktop	✔	✔	✔	✔
Shared drives for teams	✔	✔	✔	✔
Advanced Drive auditing and reports (Drive audit log)	✔	✔	✔	✔
Turn Docs creation on or off	✔	✔	✔	✔
Organizational branding (custom templates)	✔	✔	✔	✔
Connected Sheets	✔	✔	✔	✔
Drive data loss prevention (DLP)		✔		✔
Delegate access to Connected Sheets		✔		✔
Target audience groups (preset sharing options)		✔		✔
Manage Drive metadata (custom labels and fields)		✔		✔
Trust rules for Drive sharing permissions (beta)		✔		✔
Manage document approvals				✔

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	✔	✔	✔	✔
Target audience groups (preset sharing options)		✔		✔
Inspect group membership		✔		✔
Restrict group membership		✔		✔
Dynamic groups (manage membership automatically)		✔		✔
View members of nested groups (indirect members)		✔		✔

Google Meet

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	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)			✔ ★	✔
Transcribe meetings & save them to Drive			✔	✔
Client-side encryption (additional encryption for audio and video)		✔		✔

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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		✔		✔

Google Calendar

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	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Teaching and Learning Upgrade	Education Plus
Team calendars	✔	✔	✔	✔
Resource booking (rooms, buildings, equipment)	✔	✔	✔	✔
Add video conferencing to events	✔	✔	✔	✔
Automatically add events to calendars	✔	✔	✔	✔
Sync calendars with Microsoft Exchange	✔	✔	✔	✔
Set a default duration for events	✔	✔	✔	✔
Automatically free unused meeting rooms	✔	✔	✔	✔
Allow users to share working location	✔	✔	✔	✔
Let users view analytics about their time allocation		✔		✔

Classroom and Assignments

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	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			✔ ★	✔
Practice sets			✔ ★	✔
SIS roster import				U.S. only

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