Compare Gmail features
Gmail features and capabilities are different depending on which G Suite subscription you have.
Use the tables to compare:
- G Suite Enterprise (includes G Suite Enterprise for Education)
- G Suite Business (includes G Suite for Education)
- G Suite Basic (includes special editions for nonprofits and government agencies)
Email usage
| G Suite Enterprise | G Suite Business | G Suite Basic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Email storage (shared with documents and photos) | Unlimited * | Unlimited * | 30 GB |
| Attachment size limit | 25 MB | 25 MB | 25 MB |
| Maximum recipients per message | 500 | 500 | 500 |
| Maximum recipients/day per user (outside your domain) | 3,000 | 3,000 | 3,000 |
* G Suite Business or G Suite for Education accounts with fewer than 5 users get 1 TB per user.
Addresses and mailing lists
| G Suite Enterprise | G Suite Business | G Suite Basic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your email address (you@yourcompany.com) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Additional addresses per user (sales@yourcompany.com) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Addresses at multiple domains (you@company2.com) |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Mailing lists (administrator controlled) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Mailing lists (user controlled) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Email security and business controls
| G Suite Enterprise | G Suite Business | G Suite Basic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junk email filtering and virus blocking | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Gmail ads turned off | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Custom filtering and content policies | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Email retention policies | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| IP address whitelisting | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| User-managed blacklists | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Enforced compliance footers | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Email/IM search, retention, eDiscovery (Google Vault) | ✔ | ✔ | ✘ * |
| Gmail data loss prevention (see note below) | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ |
| Gmail log search in BigQuery | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ |
| Gmail integration with third-party archiving tools | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ |
| S/MIME encryption for email | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ |
* Google Vault is available with G Suite Basic as a paid add-on.
Gmail DLP is now only available with G Suite Enterprise and G Suite for Education. If you purchased one of these licenses before March 31, 2017, you can continue to use Gmail DLP until January 31, 2020, as long as you keep the this license active.
Access options
| G Suite Enterprise | G Suite Business | G Suite Basic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supported browsers | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Mobile phones and tablets | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Offline mail and Docs editors | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| IMAP and POP mail support | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Microsoft® Outlook®support | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Migration services
| G Suite Enterprise | G Suite Business | G Suite Basic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Migrate data using the Admin console | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Mail, contacts and calendar migration from Exchange, IBM® Notes®, and other webmail hosts | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Email import from webmail host | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Multi-user import from Microsoft Exchange® | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Multi-user import from IBM Notes | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Administrative controls
| G Suite Enterprise | G Suite Business | G Suite Basic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Option to disable IMAP/POP access | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Other email delivery options
| G Suite Enterprise | G Suite Business | G Suite Basic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catch-all address | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Email routing (user and domain level) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Inbound gateway | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Outbound gateway (for entire domain) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Outbound relay server (for alternative From: addresses) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Receive mail from multiple POP addresses (Mail Fetcher) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
See more features: G Suite feature comparison chart
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